Mobilizing Librarian Engagement with Computable Biomedical Knowledge: Our Roles in Curation, Stewardship, Dissemination, and Advocacy for Equity

The live session took place on Tuesday, August 11. You can access the recording of the session by selecting the "Access recording" button and using password: 4BCd%=.3

Session Format: We offer an immersion into the emerging field of computable biomedical knowledge (CBK), and identify opportunities for librarian engagement.

Objective: Recognizing the expertise of librarians in information organization, description and dissemination, we intoduce a new community: Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge (MCBK). We present an overview of the community and current projects, and introduce community workgroups.
Digital technology enables knowledge to be represented in computable forms expressed in machine-readable code. Computable biomedical knowledge is decision specific advice to improve human health leveraged at speed and scale by providers and patients through electronic health information systems. Recent CBK research has demonstrated its applicability in the clinical, research, public health, and educational realms. The librarians’ role is essential to curating, storing, and disseminating these computable formats of biomedical knowledge, often called knowledge objects, which are a new form of scholarly publication. Further, librarians advocate for equitably serving the health learning and knowledge needs of all humans, to ensure that each knowledge object reflects the best and most current medical evidence, that the computable formats are interoperable using open standards, and that they are trusted by for use by health systems, societies and individuals to improve human and population health.

Instructional

Methods:

Part 1 [25 mins]: Session introduction, introductory video on MCBK, video presentations by 3 invited speakers, providing an overview of the MCBK community, commercial partners, CBK as scholarly communication

Part 2: [25 minutes] Participants join breakout rooms aligned with MCBK workgroups [Standards; Technical Infrastructure; Policy & Coordination to Ensure Quality and Trust; Sustainability for Mobilization and Inclusion]. Facilitators rotate between rooms so that all participants have an opportunity to engage with representatives of each working group.

Part 3 [15 minutes] Breakout groups will reconvene for the wrapup - an open discussion guided by focused questions.

Sponsors:
Marisa Conte: Taubman Health Sciences Library, University of Michigan; Standards for MCBK Workgroup
Peter Oxley, Samuel J. Wood Library, Weill Cornell Medicine
Jerry Perry: University of Arizona Libraries, University of Arizona; MCBK Steering Committee, Co-chair, Sustainability for Mobilization and Inclusion Workgroup
Gabriel Rios, Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Indiana University School of Medicine; Sustainability for Mobilization and Inclusion Workgroup
Chris Shaffer, University of California, San Francisco; MCBK Steering Committee, Co-chair Technical Infrastructure for MCBK Workgroup
Philip Walker, Annette and Irwin Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt University; Policy and Coordination to Ensure Quality and Trust Workgroup
Terrie Wheeler, Director, Samuel J. Wood Library, Weill Cornell Medicine; Sustainability for Mobilization and Inclusion Workgroup