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An Assessment of the Material Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Fiscal Year 2020 (2021) / Chapter Skim
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... . ODI is a service-oriented organization whose mission is to provide leadership and expertise to meet modern data challenges and leverage data-driven research opportunities for the MML and NIST scientific research data infrastructure.
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... LIMS resulted in more productivity for researchers using the complex instruments and control of their data through collaboration and publishing results. ODI plays a lead role in advocating data management plans (DMPs)
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... The need to assess data quality on an ongoing basis suggests that ongoing funding would better. Similarly, the Open Access to Research scientific data infrastructure work will need long-term support after this year when support from Associate Directory for Laboratory Programs ends.
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... ODI has been active in both national and international scientific efforts, including CODATA and OSTP subcommittees. The Informatics and Analytics program area has embedded staff in different NIST collaborations and introduced seminars and sponsored membership in The Carpentries,6 a non-profit organization that provides training in coding and data science skills (i.e., "software carpentry")
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... should build out structures for enhancing divisional interactions. One concrete mechanism for this is to create tightly integrated multidisciplinary teams, which include ODI domain expertise as an integral part of a research team.
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