An Invitation for Informationists: Joining a Data Harmonization Research Project Already in Progress

Abstract

Through an Administrative Supplement awarded by the National Institute on Aging, two librarians joined an Alzheimer’s disease research team to make the products of their data harmonization research more accessible and useful to the scientific community. Joining this team gave the librarians the opportunity to find practical ways to implement abstract principles like transparency, discoverability, and reproducibility. Here we make our data sharing framework more tangible by comparing research products to meals: If research is like cooking, sharing is like taking it to a potluck