Margaret Berta explains how data sharing helps with analysis of medicines from the developing world

Author: Marya Lieberman

Hesburgh Libraries and the Center for Research Computing convened a workshop May 1 and 2, 2017, to discuss how libraries can faciliate preservation and sharing of data.  These tasks are more and more important for researchers in the digital age.  Margaret Berta gave a nice example of how her research uses Open Science Framework to enable students at 18 different institutions to collaborate on pharmaceutical analysis problems.  The electronic site is used to distribute shared experimental protocols, upload electronic lab notebooks, review results and calculations in a secure and private manner, and archive data and workflows for publication.