2026 GREI Meeting

📝 Event Description

The 2026 GREI Meeting will bring together principal investigators, co-chairs, program staff, and Scientific Advisory Board members of the NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) for two days in Chicago. GREI unites generalist data repositories in a shared effort to make NIH-funded data easier to find, share, and reuse, and this fifth-year meeting will reflect on what the initiative has accomplished and the value it has delivered over five years.

The agenda will cover GREI's objectives and accomplishments, metrics and measuring impact, the development of the GREI Impact Report, generalist repository partnerships with research communities, and community engagement and outreach, closing with reflections and action items for the road ahead.

Repositories are central to the question of how data sharing gets recognized. They hold the datasets, mint the identifiers, and generate the usage and citation signals that any measure of data-sharing impact depends on. The Metrics & Measuring Impact session, facilitated by Kristi Holmes, will explore how those signals can be turned into meaningful measures, with a DataCite Dashboards presentation from Maria Gould (DataCite) alongside a session on the S-index.

💡 Our Role / Contribution

Bhavesh Patel will join the Metrics & Measuring Impact session virtually as a guest speaker on Tuesday, September 22 (3:15–4:00 PM CDT), followed by open discussion. He will present two projects:

• S-index and Scholar Data: S-index is a metric for quantifying the impact of a researcher's shared data, and Scholar Data is the open-source platform where researchers can track their datasets and their data-sharing impact. Both were developed by a team led by Bhavesh Patel as part of the NIH S-index Challenge.
• Posters.science: a platform that facilitates the sharing, discovery, and reuse of scientic posters.

📍 Location

MATTER (2nd floor, along the hallway behind Marshall's Landing)
222 W Merchandise Mart Plaza, Suite 228
Chicago, Illinois 60654

Bhavesh Patel will present remotely via Zoom.

🗓 Date and Time

Tuesday, September 22, 2026 · 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM CDT
Wednesday, September 23, 2026 · 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM CDT
Bhavesh Patel's presentation: Tuesday, September 22 · 3:15 – 4:00 PM CDT (Virtual)