TO meeting minutes

Mar 13, 2024

Attendees: Catherine Yuen, Kaia Kulla, Jennifer Zeiger, Jieun Jeong

1. Overview of scope

2. Review of upcoming conferences (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zm_LXYq6iWiKxKmBLY2zN1NMjfAaFfYwfazYRXPT9gQ/edit?usp=sharing )

   1. EDDI (December) - Train the Trainers

   2. SciDataCon (October?) - ACTION: JZ to check on proposal submitted for 2024

   3. Review spreadsheet: Other conferences to add? Conferences to remove?

3. Standing training requests - Anna Tominaga

   1. “I worked for a large clinical trial which is now a cohort study of the same participants. We are a long running trial and are looking to better organise, store and make use of our metadata. I'm looking for standards and schemas to help me develop database tables to store the data in (we will likely use our own programmer to make this metadata searchable on a platform). So I'm really looking for guidelines on what key metadata I should be including, how the data should be structured, common terms that should be used etc.”\

   2. Doesn’t want to use Colectica

   3. Use of overlap, communication between DDI and Generic Statistical Information Model?

      1. Differences - labeling; variable cascade is opposite

      2. Mapping exists

4. Discuss creation of training request procedure

   1. Current procedure:

      1. Request comes in

      2. Jennifer contacts them, provides links to existing resources, requests more information

      3. If resources do not answer needs: organize virtual session

5. Spanish Statistical agency contacted Estonian after EDDI 2023

   1. Met earlier this year, meeting again in April