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Meeting Report

Meeting Report

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

Data is the new soil

One of the main themes at the Science Online London Conference last weekend was data, with several sessions devoted to publishing primary research data, connecting scientific data from various resources, and a scientific experiment taking place before and during the conference (Green Chain reaction). David McCandless talked about Data Visualization,

Lanyrd: a new Twitter mashup for conferences

Lanyrd is a new social directory for conferences launched just a few days ago. It integrates with Twitter to allow you to list conferences you are organizing, speaking at, attending, or just following. It is a social directory in the sense that everyone can edit this information (I don’t

ORCID as unique author identifier: what is it good for and should we worry or be happy?

ORCID as unique author identifier: what is it good for and should we worry or be happy?

This was the title of the session with Geoff Bilder, Gudmundur Thorisson and myself at the Science Online London Conference last Saturday. Geoff first introduced the ORCID initiative, including several principles. We then talked about two use cases for ORCID. I started with the manuscript submission scenario (my Slideshare presentation)

The Great Science Online London Tweetup

The 3rd Annual Science Online London Conference took place last Friday and Saturday. For me it was again a fantastic event. Matt Brown is collecting all blog posts, pictures, videos, etc. over at this Nature Network post. As one of the organizers of the conference (mainly helping with the program)

Welcome to Gobbledygook

Welcome to Gobbledygook

In his introductory post, PLoS community manager Brian Mossop talks about how PLoS Blogs came to life, and the lessons learned from other blogging networks. For me personally it all started a few weeks ago with a phone call one Friday evening from Pete Binfield, Publisher of PLoS ONE and

Innovations in Reference Management

Earlier today I attended the fabulous Innovations in Reference Management workshop in Birmingham organized by Owen Stephens from Open University. Owen has written some blog posts summarizing the sessions almost in real time. You also find a good number of interesting tweets under the hashtag #irm10. My presentation was called

Using Twitter at the ASCO Conference

Using Twitter at the ASCO Conference

Last week I attended the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago. For my work it is the most important scientific meeting of the year, and it is also by far the biggest with more than 30.000 participants. Blogging is a great way to