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.

See rationales here.

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: Kristi Holmes has confirmed that the event has been canceled due to lack of funding

• 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

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Status: July 2026

• Revised travel proposal provided to Brooke for further processing