1. Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Jennie Larkin, Ph.D. NIH RDA P5 March 10,2015

2. Biomedical Research as a Connected Digital Enterprise Collection of all biomedical digital research objects along with the relationships between those objects. Distributed across geographically dispersed servers, Appear to be seamlessly connected with effective interoperability and (where appropriate) widely used common standards, annotation, and/or interfaces. digital research objects digital research objects = datasets (basic and clinical), software, publications, information about investigators, and metadata (descriptors) about these digital objects http://pebourne.wordpress.com

3. BD2K Awards in 2014 12 Centers of Excellence Data Discovery Index Short Courses Online Courses Mentored Career Awards Training $32M in FY14

4. BD2K 2015 12 Centers of Excellence Data Discovery Index Short Courses Online Courses Mentored Career Awards Training Standards Metadata Commons Sustainability Community support Software discovery

5. BD2K Request for Information: Input on Sustaining Biomedical Data Repositories NOT-ES-15-011 Response Date: March 18, 2015 BD2K_Sustainability_RFI@niehs.nih.gov solicit comments and ideas for economic, technical, policy and administrative approaches toward enhancing long-term sustainability of biomedical data repositories.

6. NIH BD2K and RDA Come to the Biomedical Data BOF Session! Today! 16:00-17:30 in Royal Room Salons I & II Meet others with shared interest in biomedical data Find out what is going on and identify what is needed