Why does standardized metadata matter? What makes it and how do we implement “good” metadata practices? And how do we make sure our practices are consistent with those of our communities?

The webinar will introduce you to the NIAID Blueprint’s Core Metadata Schema, and offer guidance on creating, mapping, and publishing authoritative extensions to it. Attendees will be equipped with specific examples to demonstrate how to make their own research data or a repository’s semantic resources more machine-actionable, enabling relevant external resources to draw insights from attendees’ repositories.

How do identifiers improve the findability of research assets? What role do citations play in measuring the impact of research outputs? How do we implement good citation recommendations that are consistent with domain-specific practices? Explore how the NIAID Blueprint recommendations address these questions.

Improving Impact through Identifiers, Metadata and Citations will introduce the crucial role that identifiers play in measuring the impact of all sorts of research assets. We will also explore strategies for creating citation recommendations that are easy for data users to find and follow. Participants will gain exposure to the various ways identifiers are indexed, and to metrics, tools and techniques for finding papers that reference relevant datasets and data repositories.

How do we connect biomedical data systems to increase usage while providing adequate context? How is the emergent AI landscape placing new emphasis and demands on data services? How can API governance approaches reduce the burden on system administrators and developers? Explore how the NIAID Blueprint’s Application Programming Interface (API) recommendations address these questions.

Introduction to APIs will provide a high-level introduction to web API architecture focusing on guidance from the NIAID Blueprint. The presentation will introduce the role of URL patterns, versioning approaches, and more to support the development of long-term access to research metadata and data. API management and technical specifications will be presented, enabling you to create discoverable, self-documenting machine interfaces. Finally, the webinar will explore the integration of APIs within the AI landscape.

Have you wished for an easier way to showcase your repository’s capabilities? Wondered how repositories can better leverage submitted data, cross-reference datasets and metadata terms or more precisely cite organizations, grants, and contributors? This session addresses these challenges by exploring the role of persistent identifiers (PIDs).

The webinar will introduce the “NIAID Blueprint for Including Digital Objects in the NIAID Data Ecosystem,” also called the NIAID Blueprint and now available on Zenodo. The NIAID Blueprint is a set of recommended strategies to improve the accessibility, findability, and interoperability of NIAID data and digital objects.