BCIG BRAINSTORMING SESSION: "NIH’s Podcasting Needs - Addressed”

Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

DESCRIPTION: Our last brainstorming session demonstrated very clearly that there is strong interest in podcasting here at the NIH. We are therefore planning a follow-up brainstorming session to address some of the questions and topics that came up in the last session. Can we better identify existing resources within the NIH to make utilizing this technology a reality? What NIH podcasts are already available? How can we help those interested in beginning podcasting? These topics and others that come up will be discussed.

PODCASTING BLOG: The enthusiastic response to the last BCIG Podcasting Brainstorming session has inspired the Scientific Computing Section in the NIH Clinical Center to create a new (we)blog: http://www.nihdatamine.net/podcast/ You are strongly encouraged to leave comments on this blog. If you know anything about blogging, why not create a new account and help test out the functionality. You can upload files and create your own stories and pages to share with others. Please pass the link on to others within the NIH and BCIG communities whom you think would be interested.

PODCASTING: This refers to the distribution of audio or video information files, such as radio programs, audible books, and music videos for listening and viewing on mobile devices and personal computers. A podcast is an automatic download of audio or video files placed on the Internet for anyone to subscribe to. The subscription feed of *automatically* delivered new content, is what distinguishes a podcast from a simple download or real-time streaming content. The podcast used together with a weblog, (a journal and bulletin board like website), can create a powerful environment for collaboration, discussion, and distribution of information-targeted for interested parties.

NIH CONTACT: Jim DeLeo, 301-496-3848 jdeleo@nih.gov

BCIG WEB SITE: www.nih-bcig.org

NIH VISITOR INFORMATION: http://www.nih.gov/about/visitor/

3:00 pm to 4:30 pm April 6, 2006

FACILITATOR: Carl Leonard is an electrical and computer engineer, with experience in leading small agile programming teams. As a contractor with the Scientific Computing Section in the NIH Clinical Center, he works on a variety of data warehousing and data mining projects. He manages and helps lead the BCIG Data Mining Multidisciplinary Research Team. This group uses extreme collaboration methods to import, use and develop data mining software tools in the analysis of biomedical data. Carl also coordinates the Computer Science book part of the BCIG Book Club