HEAP marker paper published in the journal Environmental Epidemiology

Read the Human Exposome Assessment Platform project profile paper Published in December 2021, the HEAP project paper introduces the HEAP informatics platform that aims to become a global research resource, integrating an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS: computational resources services for storage and computation) and a Platform as a Service (PaaS: software services for managing and analyzing […]

Let’s talk metadata – Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) Workshop #2

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The second Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) Workshop is underway, marking a new stage of development for the HEAP Informatics Platform, as it prepares to be tested with metadata from the project’s data cohorts. Opening the workshop, Heimo Műller of the Medical University of Graz and leader of the “Data Interoperability and Sharing” Work Package, […]

Researchers! Is your data ready for interview?

New \”Self Assessment Service\” developed by the HEAP team at the Medical University of Graz. The HEAP informatics platform aims to make data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) for the scientific community. But what does this mean in practice? When data is FAIR, it can be easily collected, connected, linked and integrated with other […]

Who’s bringing the data? Meet the HEAP “Personas”

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Report from the Bring Your Own Data workshop: One of the aims of the Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) workshop was to understand more about the people who will use the Human Exposome Assessment Platform (HEAP) once it is completed. After all, knowing your audience is the key to good design. The BYOD participants, which […]

Prepare to test! HEAP’s first Bring Your Own Data workshop

The partners in the HEAP Consortia will gather for a three-day, virtual Hackathon event from December 16-18 2020. The event marks the end of the first year of the HEAP project, and will take a hands on, \”Bring Your Own Data\” approach. Participants include IT and ethical experts, and data providers from some of Europe\’s […]

Pointing the way to ethical, reusable exposome data

The launch of the Data Management Plan at the end of May 2020 is a significant milestone for HEAP. Developed by the team at the Medical University of Graz, Austria, who are leading the delivery of HEAP’s Data Interoperability and Sharing Work Package, the Data Management Plan sets out how the cohort data sourced from wearable […]