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Please use this wiki to suggest sessions for the Science Online London 2011 Conference, and/or add your name in. If you want to participate in the suggested session . We are looking for a wide range of topics (for example, PPC Management Company), and are particularly interested in topics and perspectives that haven't been covered in previous years. Please help us to involve some new faces in the sessions, as well it'll help us keep Science Online London fresh, continually evolving as a conference on how the web affects research and science communication.
To submit a suggestion, you don't need to register, just click on the "edit-button" below the page. Starting June 20, we will be finalizing the program based on these suggestions. We will be using 12 session suggestions in the quick payday loans program, and in addition will also have keynotes, panels and workshops. Please see the programme for details of these.
SUGGESTIONS:
1. How are wikis being used to carry out and communicate science?
Mike PeelMiami Piano Dealer (Wikimedia UK), Henry Scowcroft (Cancer Research UK)
And others from, e.g. http://www.science3point0.com/ & http://objectwiki.sciencemuseum.org.uk/
2. National Undergraduate Bioscience Research Journal
Neil Morris (Editor-in-Chief, National Undergraduate Bioscience Research Journal), Cathy Kennedy (Oxford University Press).
Online, open access and free. Unique collaboration between UK universities and Oxford University Press (OUP) providing opportunities for the best undergraduate bioscience researchers to submit their research to a peer-reviewed journal for online publication. Journal editor uses social networking tools Twitter (@bioscihor) and Facebook to promote journal and disseminate contents. More information: http://biohorizons.oxfordjournals.org/. Contact: ku.ca.sdeel|sirrom.p.n#ku.ca.sdeel|sirrom.p.n
3. Can we develop something like a schema.org in science to encourage data sharing and reuse?
Tomi Kauppinen (University of Muenster, Germany)
— see LinkedScience.org and LODUM.de
— contact: tomi.kauppinen (at) uni-muenster.de
— twitter: @linkedscience
4. Something on whether involving the public in science is out of scope for open science
Inspired by Walport as tweeted by Neylon at Royal Society event - could have him, someone from Royal Society and then a more PEST person like Paul Manners
Open Science means there are few barriers to prevent members of the public from accessing the research. How do open science projects consider the needs of public audiences? Do audiences and scientists alike need to develop new skills? How do we learn to judge and trust the quality of others' expertises? see http://tinyurl.com/62sqduv
5. Young people, science and online media
For a start, get Sophia Collins (I'm a Scientist), Jonathan Sanderson (Sci Cast). Possibly also Katie ex of NESTA and Declan from RSC?
6. Something specifically on the challenges for climate scientists online.
And/ or something on FOI and science.
7. Are scientists anti-social?
I really enjoyed the NY Solo event 'are scientists anti-social' - and think it's ripe for a repetition to develop it? Have Lou Woodley who spoke there as a link, and have reps from something like Mendeley, but also ask a sociologist of science (big thing missing at that event) to talk about the issue in more general terms.
8. Using Blogs and Social networking technology to crowd source research on disease outbreaks
E.g. H1N1 flu, Scarlet Fever & German E. coli outbreaks:
— http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/groups/influenza/
— https://github.com/ehec-outbreak-crowdsourced/BGI-data-analysis
— ftp.genomics.org.cn/pub/S.pyogenes/README
Could also include PLoS Currents.
Would make sense to talk to @SCEdmunds/@GigaScience at BGI, @pathogenomenick, @MiketheMadBiol, @davidjstudholme and the Era7 team (http://www.era7bioinformatics.com).
9. Something on the web and 'upstream' sci com
Have PLos Student bloggers from IC. Also maybe James Wilsdon.
10. The importance of offline communities in online networking
Eva Amsen
Do online communities work better if they support an existing network of people? Do offline meetups strengthen relationships formed online? Why are you at a conference about science online? The web is a great tool for sharing and networking, but many successful online projects rely on offline components such as meetups or existing professional connections. How can you use and nurture these offline communities in your online projects?
(online/offline communities interested in joining this discussion: the Node, #ukscitweetup, …who else?)
(This could perhaps be combined with suggestion 7, although I don't know much about that SoNYC session. Lou can probably judge whether it's similar.)
**11. **
Klout, PeerIndex, Stack Overflow Flair, EpicWin, FriendFeed likes, Quantified Self and Runkeeper; all these tools and more have shown that the technology to instrument all aspects of our online and offline lives is now almost trivial and increasingly commonplace. However the ready availability of data does not of itself imply that we can expect to see commensurate and hence dramatic improvements in the efficiency of the research process. That requires the we measure the right things, which probably only involves the things in the 'innermost loop', and at the same time close incentive feedback loop. So the question I'm proposing for this session is: given the instruments at our disposal, what should we be measuring? In short: what numbers should the baseball card of science contain (with apologies to @researchremix, @jasonpriem, @pgroth :))?
12. So many ways to tell a story
Bora Zivkovic (@BoraZ) and Anton Zuiker (@mistersugar)
Telling science stories can take many forms, from the brevity of Twitter to #longform essays, scientific papers and books, through data visualizations, radio and podcast audio, television and documentary video, and more. But what do we mean by "story"? Is it a narrative line or inverted pyramid, like the refrain of a song that we keep coming back to, or a drama that gets acted out in the minds of the public? Let's discuss, and share online science stories that have worked in the past year.
13. Bridging the divide: building around the PDF
Utopia Documents acknowledges the limitations of PDFs, but also their current ubiquity. This session would be used to look at a handful of papers with the Utopia Documents reader, perhaps from the SMA subject area, to explore the advantages – and limitations – of this method of dealing with the problems of publication in an online world. With the Utopia team (@utopiadocs, @philipmcdermott, @srp, @davethorne)
14. Microsoft Academic Search
Microsoft Academic Search is a free service from Microsoft Research that allows you to discover and explore the connections between authors, journals, conferences, and organizations. This session will cover some of the research behind Academic Search, and will also demonstrate how to use our embeddable controls and APIs for building your own applications.
Alex Wade (@alexwade)
15. Open Research Reports: a model for open access to key facts within subscription journals.
David Shotton (ku.ca.xo.ooz|nottohs.divad#ku.ca.xo.ooz|nottohs.divad; @dshotton) and Tanya Gray, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.
People in developing countries often lack free access to academic journals, limiting availability of biomedical information (1, 2). Our vision for Open Research Reports on Tropical Infectious Diseases (e.g. Open Research Reports on Leptospirosis, Open Research Reports on Malaria) is that these instant journals will provide open access to the key facts within the most cited papers on tropical infectious diseases. We will demonstrate a prototype of Open Research Reports published using WordPress.Each Open Research Report, structured according to MIIDI, our Minimal Information standard for reporting an Infectious Disease Investigation, will be created by a domain expert using the MIIDI Editor, which accesses underlying ontologies such as IDO. It will be a structured digital abstract summarizing the key facts and conclusions contained within a single journal article, and will be published both in human-readable form and as embedded RDFa. The Open Research Reports concept and methodology is generic, and could be reapplied in other domains, such as climate change. The role of Open Research Reports in education could be massive: e.g. Open Readings in Leptospirosis, bundling Open Research Reports with open access articles to develop free course packs for teaching in developing countries.
16. Microattribution
Martin Fenner (@mfenner)
What standards, infrastructure and social norms do we need to catch small and very small contributions to the corpus of scholarly works: a blog post, editing a Wikipedia or ChemSpider entry, curation of a dataset in GenBank, etc. This session could take these three examples and start working on practical solutions.
17. Predicting and planning for the Future
Brian Merritt (@brianlmerritt)
We live in increasingly turbulent times. How can concerned individuals and organisations around the world meet, discuss, launch and prioritise projects with positive impact on the future? What is the role of science in this? How can Open Sourcing help? How can social networking and Web 2.x enable this?
18. Docs, TOCs & Pop sci *
Euan Adie (moc.ecneics-latigid|naue#moc.ecneics-latigid|naue)
There are 160 million new tweets a day. Around 2,500 of them (0.0015%) link directly to primary scientific research. We'll explore a ten week dataset of those tweets and the papers they mention, correlated with links from science blogs, the MSM and reader counts on Mendeley. What kind of papers do people tweet about? Do they add value? What kind of alternative metrics does Twitter offer science and how important, relatively speaking, could those metrics be?
If I can persuade anybody to talk about the Twitter journal club that'd be a good lead-in.
19. Citizen science astronomy
Monica Bulger, Eric Meyer, Lucy Power, Oxford Internet Institute (ku.ca.xo.iio|rewop.ycul#ku.ca.xo.iio|rewop.ycul)
Case study of astronomers' use of citizen science data: In this session, we will report on our interviews of astronomers using citizen science data, with a focus on issues such as management of submissions, levels of accuracy, and use of citizen data. We will also describe the communities and explore how scientists engage with the contributing public.
20. The Future of Citizen Science
Robert Simpson, Zooniverse/Oxford University (gro.esrevinooz|bor#gro.esrevinooz|bor) and Sarah Kendrew (MPIA, Heidelberg)
How about a session on citizen science in ten years time? In a decade or so, the current concept of 'Big Data' in astronomy will be dwarfed by the next generation of scientific facilities, such as the LSST and the Square Kilometre Array. The same is true of nearly all the sciences as we look 10 and 20 years ahead. Using volunteers to help process and sort the coming avalanche of data will require a more sophisticated approach than is currently employed in projects like Galaxy Zoo, Fold.it or BOINC (for example). Creating the right tools and workflows could allow citizen scientists to contribute a huge amount in the coming era of truly Big Data. Ideas such as Open Science and changes to the way we publish science should also be considered in an era when there is definitely enough data to go around. Here at the Zooniverse we've very much been thinking about all this - but I'm sure many of you have too.
21. Research data? More than my job's worth…
Jonathan Tedds, University of Leicester (ku.ca.el|62taj#ku.ca.el|62taj, @jtedds)
Science online means research data online, and lots of it. Interlinked, interweaving & interoperable ideally but more likely granular, opaque & unattributed. The around managing all this data are becoming better recognised, witness the recently agreed . But as I argued in a recent Research Fortnight article (Feb 11), a key challenge is to identify who's responsible for managing all this data and at which points during the research life cycle. Are traditional academic structures up to the job?
22. The cross-disciplinary nature of science and shift to team science (panel)
Kristi Holmes (@kristiholmes)
This panel will offer real stories of how people are practicing and using team science across a variety of disciplines. This panel could begin with a short background introduction on the topic and then we could hear from various people about their experiences. Among the topics likely covered: introductions to specific projects which employ team science across a wide range of disciplines; strategies for connecting with collaborators; examples and strategies of ways to communicate/ collaborate with colleagues across a wide geographic area (tools?); lessons learned while on the team and the rewards and challenges of a team science/interdisciplinary approach; etc.
23. Online collaboration platforms and communities (panel)
Kristi Holmes (@kristiholmes)
The online world offers a number of exciting places for people to communicate, collaborate, and share information about themselves and their interests. It might be nice to highlight some specific examples of these online platforms and communities (Mendeley, VIVO, Google+, a collaborative wiki (like SNPedia, Gene Wiki, others?) and another platform/tool or two?). This session could provide a 5-minute introduction to each specific tool and offer the remainder of the session for an interactive Q&A/discussion.
24. A Labwatching application (workshop)
Daniel Mietchen (@EvoMRI)
For ESOF 2012, an outreach session was proposed in which the public in Dublin would be invited to interact, on the days of the conference, with scientists as they perform their research and post their notes about it in public. However, open science allows to do such things all year round, not just on a few days a year as in most labs, and so the question arises how to design a web service that would allow the public to follow - and interact with - the research of open scientists in a way that feels more inviting than simply clicking through the lab notebooks. In this session, a few possible scenarios shall be actively explored by interacting with a number of open research notebooks and the scientists that run them.
25. Open Data Means Better Science (breakout session)
Graham Steel (@McDawg)
1) We have the Panton Principles - PMR/Cameron Neylon could introduce as they are authors.
2) The web is making life easier for scientists who want to publish their data according to the principles (and publish solely data as well) . Mark Hahnel and Daniel Mietchen introduce Figshare and Gbif. 3) Why isn't it happening widely yet? Directed discussion around cultural/technological fears/legal barriers to open data sharing from the perspective of the researcher (like the CRUK example) and how to overcome these. Discussion around ideas of what a community driven organisation with a focus on building tools for open data might offer
26. Open Science Bibliography - where can I find Open Access papers on … ? (breakout session)
Peter Murray Rust and Jenny Molloy (gro.nfko|yollom.ynnej#gro.nfko|yollom.ynnej)
Open access and Open Data are severely limited because no-one knows where to find the objects.The proposal is to create a bibliography of Open resources based primarily on academic publications from both fully open access publishers (BMC, PLoS) and hybrid journals (e.g. Springer, Wiley, Elsevier, ACS).This can be completely mechanised for the major publishers using web crawler software to give an automated bibliography of either Open papers or papers with Open resources. watch spartacus vengeance episode 1 online
This is legal as the text and data sets are not downloaded, their existence is simply recorded and a link to them is provided. This project would locate and publicize Open Access papers, even when hidden in traditional closed journals and allow metadata to be collected in CKAN (an open data hub) and Open Bibliography. The session aims to explore this idea further and take steps towards making it happen.
27. How can we promote informal open science? (breakout session)
Rosie Redfield (ac.cbu.ygolooz|dleifder#ac.cbu.ygolooz|dleifder)
One way to help the public understand science is to let them see what scientists do, but even scientists who already have blogs are very reluctant to post anything more than vague generalities about their ongoing research.I'd like to participate in a discussion of ways to encourage researchers to write much more specifically about what they are doing.
28. Science Question Time (breakout session)
Alice Bell (Imperial), Imran Khan (CaSE), Beck Smith (Biochemical Society)
Science Question Time, a regular science policy meetup and debate event in London, brings science policy to Science Online London. This is a shorter and, we hope, more lively session than most Science Question Time events, with a focus on finding the right questions science policy makers should be asking (and not necessarily expecting answers straight away). watch spartacus vengeance online
A panel of key thinkers and policy makers in the area tell you what they think are the key questions in science and technology policy is for the year ahead. You get to tell them they are wrong (or that they are right!) and add you own questions/ challenges you think should be on the policy agenda for the next 12 months. The event will be livecast, and will be inviting comments/ further questions from the UK science policy community via twitter/ email.
APIs and LinkedData offer new opportunities for building applications based on scientific content, and a proliferation of competitions and hackdays. Chandran Honour from Nature Publishing Group and Oren Michels from Mashery will cover the difference between a Mashup and a Mashery, explain why publishers are starting to offer APIs and open the floor to developers wanting to share their experiences and ideas.
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