GREI Y5: Travel and Conferences

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Overview

• This issue documents our planned GREI Year 5 travel
• These events either appear on the GREI Community Engagement Plan (see: Community Engagement (CE) Running Meeting Notes) and/or provide an opportunity for members of the Harvard GREI team to interact with and communicate the value and accomplishments of the GREI program directly to researchers.

Revised Plan

• Event: NIH Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) Generalist Repository Landscape

  • Location: Washington, DC
  • Participants: Sonia Barbosa
  • Dates: September 2026
  • Status: As per Ana, this event will not be held. A virtual event is planned instead.

• Event: Metadata RX Workshop

  • Location: San Diego, CA
  • Participants: Julian Gautier
  • Dates: Unknown
  • Status: Ceilyn is waiting confirmation from Kristi that the event is still planned

• Event: BioIT GREI FAIR Workshop

  • Location: Boston, MA
  • Participants: Ceilyn Boyd and Danny Ebanks
  • Dates: May 19-21, 2026
  • Status: Missed deadline due to administrative reasons

• Event: Data Repository Knowledge Base (DRKB) Program Meeting

  • Location: New York, NY
  • Participants: Ceilyn Boyd, Sonia Barbosa
  • Dates: March 2026
  • Status: Missed deadline due to administrative reasons

New Proposed Events

• Event: American Political Science Association, 2026

  • Location: Boston, Massachusetts
  • Participants: Danny Ebanks
  • Dates: September 3–6, 2026
  • Rationale:
  • Status: Pending

• Event: PIDfest 2026

  • Location: Leiden, Netherlands
  • Participants: Philip Durbin and Sonia Barbosa
  • Dates: Oct 27-29, 2026
  • Rationale:
  • Status: Pending

• Event: AMIA

  • Location: Dallas, TX
  • Participants: Danny Ebanks
  • Rationale:
  • Dates: Nov 7-11, 2026

• Event: BD WG2 - Hackathon

  • Location: San Diego, CA
  • Participants: Danny Ebanks and Phil Durbin
  • Dates: Feb, 2027
  • Rationale:
  • Status: Hackathon is in planning stages