If you follow us on Twitter you may know that we presented our progress with OpenTrials at the Evidence Live conference in Oxford a few weeks ago. Amongst those attending were leaders across the world of Evidence Based Medicine, including researchers, doctors, and the pharmaceutical industry, so we were excited to participate! It was great […]
Read MoreA vital part of the OpenTrials project is data collection. We get data from various sources to process, and link them in the next stage of our data pipeline. Let’s take a look at our data collection system: Overview For data acquisition we use a component called collectors: Key facts about collectors: Written in Python […]
Read MoreHi everyone, I’m Ben Meghreblian and I’m the new Community Manager for OpenTrials. I come from a background in IT and psychology, having moved to science communications and campaigns work in the last few years. Most recently I worked on the AllTrials campaign, also led by Ben Goldacre, which advocates for greater transparency in clinical […]
Read MoreOpen Knowledge is thrilled to announce that the team ‘OpenTrialsFDA’ has been selected to advance our product idea into a prototype to complete for a $230,000 prize in the Open Science Prize, a global science competition to make both the outputs from science and the research process broadly accessible to the public. OpenTrialsFDA is a […]
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce the publication of a new paper on OpenTrials, by Ben Goldacre and Jonathan Gray in Trials. The paper, ‘OpenTrials: towards a collaborative open database of all available information on all clinical trials’ outlines the ambitions of the OpenTrials project. Read more about OpenTrials in Ben Goldacre’s guest blog on BioMed […]
Read MoreHello fans of evidence-based medicine and open data! We’d like to officially announce that the technical work for OpenTrials is underway. Read on for an overview of what we are doing, how we are doing it, and the current roadmap for the first half of 2016. If you have any questions or comments, do not […]
Read MoreOpen Knowledge International is seeking a Community Manager to work on developing the community around the OpenTrials project: https://opentrials.net The Community Manager for OpenTrials will have a working understanding of what clinical trials are, how they are run, and how they are reported; the different kinds of documents and data associated with clinical trials; and […]
Read MoreAt a recent Nature Publishing event, “Publishing Better Science through Better Data” in October 2015, Rufus Pollock, the Founder of Open Knowledge International, gave an update on the OpenTrials project, outlining the importance of providing a comprehensive picture of the data and documents on the world’s medical trials and the role of Open Knowledge International in […]
Read MoreOpen Knowledge today announced plans to develop Open Trials, an open, online database of information about the world’s clinical research trials funded by The Laura and John Arnold Foundation. The project, which is designed to increase transparency and improve access to research, will be directed by Dr. Ben Goldacre, an internationally known leader on clinical […]
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