After a long effort and great collaborations with many of you, we're excited to launch to CAVD Members. At the meeting? Stop by and we'll help you get hands-on. Not attending? No problem. Here's what you need to know.
What is it?
Based on our work with many of you, we believe that there is untapped value in completed studies and that faster progress depends on more effective sharing.
The CAVD DataSpace is the place to learn the details of past work and develop new hypotheses that would have been difficult before. We set out to empower vaccine investigators, but many other roles may also find it useful. In the DataSpace you can:
- Answer your detailed questions about products, assays, and over 200 completed studies of many types
- Find out if there's anything to your idle thought or Big Idea quickly using visual tools
- Explore relationships across assays, studies, and years of research
While you can learn details about any kind of study, our assay data all comes from vaccine trials in non-human primates and humans. From our work with the community we found that these data are the most useful to the broadest set of members and questions. In the future we may complement the assay data with clinical, demographic, or genetic sources, and expand with additional vaccine trials.
Watch the Getting Started video on the home page and check out the Help to get oriented. If you want to know how we got here and why we made certain choices, check out out last blog post on what we learned by working with the community.
We need your help
The DataSpace is a test. We know investigators feel there is untapped value in completed studies, but can we prove it? Even if there is, will the community be able to use the DataSpace to get it? Only if we answer these questions can we continue and grow, and we need your help to do it. There are several ways you can help.
- Please take our very brief survey about sharing in the CAVD today, without the DataSpace. This will be important to help us understand our impact.
- There is a "Give feedback" link at the top of every page of the site. Use it to tell us how we can improve, but also to help us know what's valuable.
- Most importantly, tell us how your work is affected. We're interested in even minor or indirect impacts. When you answered a question or exported some data, what were the outcomes on your collaborations, papers, presentations, internal lab meetings, proposals, assay setups, analyses, and more?
Get started and connect with us
Are you attending the 2015 CAVD Annual Meeting? Stop by the Lummi Island room, downstairs in the Northwest corner near the food. We can give you a personalized demo and talk about how the DataSpace could help your work. We can get you set up and show you how to start exploring your ideas or questions. We also have some free treats and takeaways like a USB flash drive.
Many of you aren't at the meeting and we'd love to hear from you. Use the "Give feedback" link or email us directly at [email protected].