10 medical and health research data Things: a self directed learning program

Poster presented at eResearch Australasia in Melbourne, October 2016.
AbstractIn 2016
the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) ran the highly valued 23 (research
data) Things program. The self-directed program, was designed for anyone
who wanted to learn more about research data - what it is, why it is a global
hot topic, finding it, re-using it, managing it, and more. ANDS has also been
engaging with the medical and health community, through a series of
‘Sharing Health-y Data: Challenges and Solutions’ workshops across Australia, a
‘virtual’ health data community group within the 23 Things program, and their
resources relevant to medical and health data collated on the ‘medical and
health data’ page of their website.

As the
active phase of running the 23 (research data) Things program throughout
2016 came to a close, ANDS produced a re-purpose toolkit. The 10 medical
and health research data Things a part of this toolkit. It was developed from
the 23 (research data) Things materials; adapting the Things that were most
relevant to medical and health data, and also substituting medical and health
examples in many of the activities. Each Thing has two or three activities.
Some of the activities are intended as an introduction to a topic, and some
delve a little deeper, to allow for a range of previous experience and
knowledge. The program is intended to be reused and adapted as required, and
accordingly it has a CC-BY licence. 10 medical and health research data Things is
a flexible, adaptable resource for anyone working with medical, clinical or
health data.