NIH Data Sharing Index (S-index) Challenge
Pays up to $500,000 from a $1 million pool for a new data-sharing measurement tool.
The prizes actually paid out differed from the published structure: the top team received $400,000 rather than the advertised $500,000, second place matched the $300,000 figure, third place received $150,000 instead of $100,000, and one project also received a $37,500 honorable mention that wasn't part of the original tier breakdown. Registrants competed in one of three categories, Individual, Tea…
The challenge is for researchers and teams designing a quantitative 'S-index' that measures how effectively a researcher shares their data for future reuse. It wants a metric incorporating FAIR-standard adherence, data timeliness, annotation completeness, reuse frequency, and related publications and patents.
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