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Meeting Report

Meeting Report

Reports from conferences and workshops of interest to the scholarly community.

Announcing Markdown for Science Workshop on June 8th

On Saturday, June 8th – exactly a month from today – the PLOS San Francisco offices will host a workshop/hackathon about using markdown for science. A lot of people are experimenting with markdown for authoring scientific articles – see blog posts here, here or my post here, and the scientific manuscript here.

The Price of Innovation – my Thoughts for Beyond the PDF

The Price of Innovation – my Thoughts for Beyond the PDF

The Beyond the PDF Conference is currently taking place in Amsterdam. Unfortunately, I am unable to attend in person this time (I took part in the first Beyond the PDF in January 2011), but I was watching the livestream of the Business Case panel discussion yesterday afternoon. How to pay

Random notes from the altmetrics12 conference

Random notes from the altmetrics12 conference

Last week I attended the altmetrics12 workshop in Chicago. You can read all 11 abstracts here, and the conference had good Twitter coverage (using the hashtag #altmetrics12), at least until Twitter had a total blackout around 12 PM our time. All but two presenters used slides – I have uploaded my

Speaker Deck for Sharing Presentations

It has become common practice to make presentation slides available for those unable to attend in person, or for more in-depth review later. The most popular service to do this is of course Slideshare. Slideshare is a fine service, but the website has become fairly cluttered over the years, and

Altmetrics – Where Do We Go From Here?

Altmetrics – Where Do We Go From Here?

The ScienceOnline2012 conference last week again was a wonderful experience. This was my third time in North Carolina, and I had many great conversations in the sessions, hallways – and bars. One of many highlights was a lunch meeting with fellow PLoS bloggers and staffers. Together with Euan Adie I moderated

Wikis, Q&As and Cookbooks

Wikis, Q&As and Cookbooks

Last week I attended the Transforming Scholarly Communication workshop in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The main goal of the workshop was to come up with practical recommendations for the topics #resources #review #literature #media #recognition and #platforms: This workshop strives to be different in one important way—rather than focusing on utopian

Hacking the PLoS Article-Level Metrics API Server

Hacking the PLoS Article-Level Metrics API Server

The Science Online London 2011 Conference was a great event that took place last Friday and Saturday. I was able to celebrate the first PLoS Blogs anniversary together with community manager Brian Mossop, but a detailed conference post will follow later. The blog posts covering the event are here, and