{"id":2485,"date":"2014-12-09T12:14:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T12:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/scientificdata\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2014-12-09T12:14:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T12:14:53","slug":"scientific-data-outreach-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/scientificdata\/2014\/12\/09\/scientific-data-outreach-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Data<\/em> outreach in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/b>Scientific Data<\/i> and Nature Publishing Group\u2019s open data initiatives have been presented to Japanese audiences through several recent events. <\/ins><\/p>\n

59th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Human Genetics<\/h2>\n

On 22 November, a luncheon seminar was arranged during the 59th annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Human Genetics<\/a>, co-sponsored by Japanese Society of Human Genetics<\/a> (JSHG) and Nature Publishing Group. The seminar, \u2018Scholarly Communication in Open Research era \u2013 open data and data deposition with example of Scientific Data<\/i> and Human Genome Variation<\/i>\u2019, discussed trends in the open data movement that prompted the launch of two open access journals (Human Genome Variation<\/i> is co-published by JSHG and Nature Publishing Group).<\/p>\n

Dr. Hideya Kawaji, of RIKEN Preventive Medicine & Diagnosis Innovation Program (PMI) and RIKEN Advanced Center for Computing and Communication (ACCC), and an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Data,<\/i> presented the journal at the event. Dr Kawaji\u2019s excellent talk introduced Scientific Data<\/i>\u2019s key principles and the \u2018Data Descriptor\u2019, emphasizing the importance of data sharing for the advancement of science, in the context of his own research in genomics.<\/p>\n

Download the slides<\/a><\/p>\n

At the same event, Professor Naomichi Matsumoto, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Human Genetics<\/i><\/a>, introduced new trends in genome research and databases, and Professor Katsushi Tokunaga, Editor-in-Chief of Human Genome Variation<\/i><\/a> discussed how the journal has responded to a demand by the community for a place to publish important discoveries, observations and analysis about research on the human genome.<\/p>\n

The speakers attracted a large audience, with 250 participants filling the seminar venue, and there were many discussions and questions during and after the seminar. The post-event questionnaire demonstrated that over 82% of participants found the seminar informative.<\/ins><\/p>\n

37th annual meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan<\/b><\/h2>\n

During the 37th annual meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan<\/a> on 26 November 2014, we introduced Scientific Data<\/i> at the Forum \u2018Data-driven approaches to elucidate physiological metabolic machinery conserved across species\u2019 to 60 researchers, which generated extensive discussion, especially among bioinformaticians. The presentation focused on a publisher\u2019s perspective on data and reproducibility, and discussed the community and generalist data repositories recommended by Scientific Data<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Download the slides<\/a><\/p>\n

Later in the conference, we held a \u2018Meet the Editor\u2019 session, inviting Dr. Kawaji who answered various questions from researchers, at the Scientific Data<\/i> booth. Delegates\u2019 questions included specific pre-submission queries and discussion around data curation and metadata, following Dr. Kawaji\u2019s enlightening explanation on ISA-tools as one of the key features and author services of Scientific Data<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Finally, detailed information about the journal is now available in Japanese \u2013 an open access article introducing Scientific Data<\/i> was published on December 1st. The article \u201cScientific Data: An open access and open data publication to facilitate reproducible research<\/a>\u201d available under CC BY license in Johokanri – Journal of Information Processing and Management,<\/i> Vol. 57 (2014) No. 9 P629-640.<\/p>\n

An English language pre-print version of this article has also been posted on Figshare. Read it here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Written by Yoko Shintani<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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