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.