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Video recordings by session
- Introduction to ASAPbio (Ron Vale)
- Introduction to the Academy (John Randell)
- What biologists want from preprints (James Fraser)
- Goals of the Technical Workshop (Jessica Polka)
- Meeting participant introductions (roundtable)
- Breakout session 1A
- Report back from breakout sessions 1A
- Report back from breakout session 1B
- Breakout session 2A
- Report back from breakout session 2A
- Report back from breakout session 2B
- Breakout session 3A
- Report back from breakout session 3A
- Report back from breakout session 3B
- Breakout session 4A
- Report back from breakout session 4A
- Report back from breakout session 4B
- Summary and closing thoughts (roundtable)
Agenda and Notes (google docs)
All times Eastern (US)
Monday, 8/29 |
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| 7:00p | Dinner |
| Attendees are welcome to demo a product, project or service during this time from their own laptop/tablet. Demos will be optional and on-demand. | |
Tuesday, 8/30 – American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
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| 8:30 | Working breakfast |
| 8:40 | Introduction to ASAPbio (Ron Vale) |
| 8:50 | Welcome to the American Academy (John Randell, Senior Program Director and Advisor to the President) |
| 9:00 | Goals for the workshop (Jessica Polka) – Slides |
| Presentation on desired use cases (James Fraser) | |
| Format of the breakout sessions (Jessica Polka) | |
| 9:30 | Breakout session 1 – Ingest |
| Group 1A (Council room): Architecture, APIs, metadata, and file formats of existing preprint servers/platforms/journals | |
| Group 1B (Board room): Capabilities of document conversion services (.doc or latex to .xml/.html) | |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:45 | Report from breakout sessions and discussion |
| 11:15 | Breakout session 2 – Screening |
| Group 2A (Council room): Tools for automated screening – plagiarism, image manipulation, author authentication | |
| Group 2B (Board room): Interfaces and approaches for human moderation and curation | |
| 12:15 | Working lunch |
| 12:30 | Report from breakout sessions and discussion |
| 1:00 | Breakout session 3 – Storage and database organization |
| Group 3A (Council room): Data storage models (and linking to external datasets) | |
| Group 3B (Board room): Identifiers, versioning, linking (including to journal publications) | |
| 2:00 | Report from breakout sessions and discussion |
| 2:30 | Coffee break |
| 2:45 | Breakout session 4 – Search and journals |
| Group 4A (Council room): Search and bibliometrics tools; syndicating content to external search tools | |
| Group 4B (Board room): Enabling access by individuals, journal content management systems, and others | |
| 3:45 | Report from breakout sessions and discussion |
| 4:15 | Summary and next steps |
| 5:00 | Adjourn |
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