The UI Libraries is pleased to announce that Dr. Heidi Imker will visit the University of Iowa campus in November. Dr. Imker is the Director of the Research Data Service (RDS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The RDS is a campus-wide service headquartered in the University Library that provides the Illinois research community with the expertise, tools, and infrastructure necessary to manage and steward research data.

On Wednesday, November 11 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., she will deliver a public seminar titled “Capitalizing on Research Data: Management, Dissemination, and Archiving.” The seminar will explain how researchers can meet new funding requirements for research data management and also how to leverage public access requirements to increase the visibility and impact of their research. A time for discussion will follow her presentation.

It will be held in the Illinois Room (348) in the Iowa Memorial Union (IMU). A time for discussion will follow her presentation and there will be an informal meet and greet with refreshments. Please RSVP by November 6 by visiting: http://tiny.cc/Data11-11-15.

Many federal funding agencies are now requiring researchers from all disciplines to better manage and account for their data which results from federally-funded research. Dr. Imker believes researchers should view this as an opportunity to regard their research data as an integral part of scholarly work.  Sharing of data results in a more collaborative research environment and increased visibility for researchers.

Prior to her position as Director of RDS, she was the Executive Director of the Enzyme Function Initiative, a large-scale collaborative center involving nine universities, funded by the National Institutes of Health, and located in the Institute for Genomic Biology. She holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois, and did her postdoctoral research at the Harvard Medical School.

During her stay in Iowa City, Dr. Imker will tour the University and is scheduled to meet with campus administrators and also work with the Research Data Interest Group.

Please contact us at lib-data@uiowa.edu if you have any questions. To RSVP, please visit: http://tiny.cc/Data11-11-15.