eLife Innovation Sprint

May 10–11, 2018

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@eLifeInnovation

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@jmclenna

Introductions and pitches

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Achintya

Rao

Doctoral Student, UWE Bristol, Science Communicator, CERN

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• science communication and research dissemination

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• scicomm, documentation, a bit of R, git+GitHub

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• I ask to be bombarded with requests for help. :)

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Ale

Abdo

Researcher,

LISIS - France / GHC - Brazil

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• Discoverability, altmetrics, open notebook science

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• Content classifiers, networks, sociology of science, code

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• Attention, discussion, code

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Discovery and altmetrics through automatic classification

Ale Abdo

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• Help researchers understand the organization of fields, finding interesting work and figuring out the role of other researchers

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• Minimal interface to ask for a set of publications and return results over a delimited corpus

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• Experience in any element of the title, interface designers, coders

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Ally

(Alessandra) Dillenburg

PhD Student (Neuroscience), University of Edinburgh

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• Interests: promoting open, accessible, and collaborative research, effective (and fun!) sci comm
• Contribute: end user perspective, brainstorming ideas
• Ask or need: help with web development/programming

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Alex

Freeman

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Executive Director, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication

ex-BBC TV director and web producer

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• Making scientific research as good as it should be.
• Ideas from a non-technical (end user) perspective & project management
• I’m not a programmer and find GitHub intimidating, but need technical expertise to make my ideas reality (or prototype!)

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Octopus

Alex Freeman

• Making scientific publishing do what it should do by making it free, instant, truly peer-responsive, collaborative, language-agnostic, easily navigable and meritocratic (with metrics that reward good work)...
• To produce a demonstrable prototype of the idea, using as many existing technologies as possible.
• Technical skills! Client side developer used to working with publishing interfaces, maybe a server-side developer with experience of distributed or p-2-p systems.

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Alf

Eaton

Developer, Manuscripts

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• Research themes, citation networks, authoring environments

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• Code, data

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• Ideas

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Andre

Marques-Smith

Neuroscience Postdoc, University College London

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• Reproducibility, inclusivity, distributed collaboration, better metrics for scientific productivity and quality

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• Ideas on the above, scientist/user perspective

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• Web development/programming expertise

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A digital editor for soliciting peer review of preprints

Andre Marques-Smith

• Find reviewers for your preprint, manage communication with them and publish their reviews on BiorXiv.org. Peer review as collaboration amongst equals.
• Prototype that queries a reviewer database on expertise, conducts and logs communication, compiles the reviews and publishes them as biorXiv comments.
• Technical skills: text mining, web development, web scraping and aggregation. Ideas on how best to manage issues such as blind/double blind review, crediting reviewers

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Andreea

Hrincu

UX Designer, Springer Nature

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• Improving the working lives of scientists
• Design skills - understanding problems, thinking about users, sketching, designing interfaces, prototyping, writing copy
• I need peeps to work with (in particular devs)

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Anisha

Keshavan

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington

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• Citizen Science & open data

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• Data analysis, visualization, web development

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• I could use some help with design work

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The Publication Annotation Sensation

Anisha Keshavan

• There are too many publications, I can’t keep up. Meta analyses could help → metadata → need to annotate

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• For the sprint, start small: A game to read a snippet from paper & annotate sample size. Play on your phone! Compete with friends! Win badges! FUN!

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• 1. Get past paywalls to extract text

2. Game/App UI/UX & badge designs

3. Developers to scale up

4. Feedback: Citizen Scientists & Gamers

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Example: Click on numbers in abstract text to quickly annotate

Asura

Enkhbayar

PhD Student (Simon Fraser University) & Open Knowledge Maps

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• applying philosophy/theory, philosophy of dig. scholcomm�
• misc. dev skills (data science, web, GUI), perspective from both science/humanities�
• dev-skills (JS & Python) & QDA expertise

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Equip Zotero with Text Analysis Powers

Asura Enkhbayar

• FOSS alternative to Atlas.ti/NVivo to provide point & click text analysis based on Zotero collections and Python

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• Prototype a Zotero plugin that provides annotation & tagging features (.md notes) and first basic analyses (.ipynb + NLTK)

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• Experience with QDA software (Atlas.ti, NVivo, TAMS, etc.)��Zotero/Firefox plugin (JS)�Python Backend (NLTK)�

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Barney

Walker

PhD Student, Imperial College London

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• Making science more efficient, tools for researchers, changing incentive structure in science, research evaluation.

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• Basic web development. Data analysis (R/ Python). Researcher perspective.

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• Want to learn best practices for web dev / setting up open source projects.

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Citation Gecko

Barney Walker

• Enable researchers to extrapolate from a small number of representative papers to explore a whole topic / find all relevant papers by visualising small scale citation networks.

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• Be able to go from Zotero Collection -> Citation Network in one click. Cited-By querying from CrossRef data. More visualisation options (timeline?).

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• Web dev (front-end / back-end). Data munging. AWS. Data vis (D3)

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Bruno

Vieira

Bioinformatics Scientist, Repositive

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• (Open) Science, Bioinformatics, Reproducibility, Reusability, Scalability. Founder of Bionode.io

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• Node.JS (Streams), R, Docker, Nix, GitHub, Community Management

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• People with cool ideas

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Charlie

(Charlotte) Whicher

Product Manager, Repositive

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• Data sharing, bringing new technology to healthcare, using AI/ML in healthcare
• Good at explaining scientific concepts to non-scientists, good at explaining technical concepts to non-developers
• Need people to bounce my thoughts and ideas off, I’m bad at working in isolation!

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Chris

Wilkinson

Senior Systems Developer, eLife

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• Interest(s)

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• Contribute

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• Ask or need

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Ciro

Santilli

Software Engineer, ARM Ltd

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• PageRank-like algorithm
• Anyone can:
• Tag
• Upvote
• In a tag, what is the best:
• Content
• User (expert)
• Also interested in other algorithmic innovations

https://github.com/cirosantilli/write-free-science-books-to-get-famous-website

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Daniel

Ecer

Data Scientist, eLife

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• Open access, source, science, ideas; Automating everything.

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• Technical skills, Python, JS, Machine Learning, NLP, Data..

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• Ideas and project to help bring to life

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Daniel

Nüst

Researcher�Institute for Geoinformatics,�University of Münster�Opening Reproducible Research (http://o2r.info) project

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• Interest(s): Geosciences, (Docker) Containers, Open Science
• Contribute: Software development (R, JavaScript, ...), practices for reproducible research & Open Science
• Ask or need: collaborators for science-ready container tech, exciting use cases to hack

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Scibernetes

Daniel

• Containers are great for capturing computational environments, the scientist’s “virtual laboratory”, and provide portability and quick interactions. They lack (intentionally for the original use case) documentation of hardware (GPU, CPU) and system (OS, Kernel) requirements as well as software licenses, but those might be relevant for sci comp.
• Demonstrate that Kubernetes can be extended to automatically schedule a container on the most suitable host/pod based on the image’s metadata (e.g. pod A having kernel 3.10 and an Nvidia GPU and pod B having kernel 4.13,exactly 8 cores and manifold software licenses, the image needing kernel 4.10 will end up on pod B while the image needing an Nvidia GPU and Kernel 4.0 will end up on pod A).
• Kubernetes user/maintainer/developer, container experts, computational scientists with a very peculiar analysis environment, cloud experts

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Daniela

Saderi

Neuro PhD Candidate, Oregon Health & Science University | Co-Founder of PREreview.org | @Neurosarda

• Fostering a culture of collaboration and openness in academia, empowering ECRs to contribute to scientific evaluation, promoting adoption of open tools for reproducible science.
• Community building, peer review guidelines, coding literacy.
• Researchers willing to contribute and test new ideas. OS back/front end engineering, UX/UI designer.

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PREreview

Daniela

• Increase the use and value of preprints in the life sciences; Increase ECRs ‘ involvement with scholarly evaluation.
• Create content for a Mozilla-style peer-review training program; Run the first PREreview live journal club.
• OS back/front end engineering, UX/UI designer, community building, leadership, content creation, and loads of enthusiasm for open innovation!

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PREreview.org

Twitter: @PREreview_

Danielle

Robinson

Co-Executive Director, Code for Science and Society

• Decentralized technologies, data management, scientific publishing, archiving and long term preservation, access as a right, rethinking infrastructure and scholarly communications
• OS collaboration best practices, community management, knowledge of funding and sustainability models
• Looking for collaborators and others rethinking scholarly comms

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David

Moulton

Senior Front-End Developer, eLife

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• Interest(s): open science, open data, open access

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• Contribute: front end development and UX

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• Ask or need: great projects to work on; caffeine.

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Delwen

Franzen

PhD in Systemic Neurosciences, LMU

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• Efficient data management & sharing, open platform that summarises developments in a given field, make science more accessible to others
• Insight as a researcher, science communication ideas, brainstorming
• Technical insight into how to implement project ideas

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Emanuil

Tolev

Software Development Consultant, Cottage Labs LLP

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• Want to improve open science discoverability. Interested in inclusion and the people side of running projects + teams.
• Can contrib a tech dev and maint angle. Directory of Open Access Journals developer.
• LF people who could use tech help or journal + article metadata.

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Fábio

Madeira

PhD in Computational Biology, Software Engineer, EMBL-EBI

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• Interests: Open Science/Data/Access; Research reproducibility and discoverability

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• Contributes: Data analysis; Software development; “Hacking” (aka problem solving)

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• Need: Like-minded people; Machine learning

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Felix Z.

Hoffmann

PhD student in computational neuroscience, Frankfurt, Germany

• Interest: computational reproducibility & electronic lab notebooks
• Contribute: requirements for reproducibility, Docker images, researcher perspective
• Need: experience in implementing new technologies

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Giorgio

Sironi

Software Engineer - Tools & Infrastructure, eLife

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• Software Continuous Delivery and engineering productivity

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• Development, testing and automation skills

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• I’ll provide you with any AWS resource you need

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Giuliano

Maciocci

Head of Product, eLife

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• Interested in making science more open, elegant and human.�
• Contributing concept generation, User Experience, knowledge of the research publishing process.�
• Looking to discuss your ideas and help turn them into actionable projects.

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Hannah

Drury

Product Manager, eLife

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• Continuous delivery of scientific discoveries in an accessible, readily consumable format. Eliminating the demand to ‘publish or perish’.
• Knowledge of editorial process. Some UX experience.
• Passionate, like-minded developers, designers and idea-makers!

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Ian

Bruno

Director, Strategic Partnerships, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre

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• Continuous dissemination of research objects and outcomes as they become known
• Listener and assimilator of ideas. Chemistry, crystallography and data. Lapsed/occasional coder.
• Let’s help each other to make lasting impact

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Ian

Mulvany

Head of Product Innovation, SAGE Publishing

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• Interests: data+code as first class citizens, sustainability models, infrastructure, machine learning

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• Contribute: python, AWS+Lambda, REST, Lambda, seen almost everything, product dev, landscape analysis, lean canvas++, user testing

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• Ask or need: front end/UX, great ideas that I can help with

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Ivo

Jimenez

PhD candidate, UC Santa Cruz

BSSw Fellow (2018 class)

CROSS Grad Researcher

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• Large-scale data management systems; practical aspects of reproducibility in computational and data science; main lead of Popper.
• Bring OSS and DevOps practices to academia; automation of experimentation pipelines.
• Collaborate with domain scientists to create a catalog of portable pipelines that others can easily re-execute.

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Reproducible Paper Template

Ivo Jimenez

• Need to have concrete examples of reproducible (versioned, automated and portable) papers so that others can learn from them and easily extend them.

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• Define the domain and structure of experimentation pipelines (computational chemistry/biology/etc.); implement as much as possible.

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• Domain expertise, basic knowledge of Bash, Git and Docker.

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mypaper/

├── pipelines

│   ├── generate-data

│   │ ├── README.md

│   │ ├── output

│   │ │ ├── exp1.csv

│   │ │ ├── post.sh

│   │ │ └── view.ipynb

│   │ ├── run.sh

│   │ ├── setup.sh

│   │ ├── teardown.sh

│   │ └── validate.sh

│   ├── analysis1

│   │ ├── README.md

│   │ └── ...

│   └── analysis2

│   ├── README.md

│   └── ...

└── paper

   ├── build-pdf.sh

   ├── figures/

   ├── paper.tex

└── refs.bib

Jen

Spencer

Software Engineer, YLD

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• Interest(s): OSS, web development

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• Contribute: developer perspective, assistance with defining an MVP

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• Ask or need: understanding of the domain & users’ pain points with existing systems

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Joe

Hand

Co-Executive Director, Code for Science and Society, Core Developer on Dat Project

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• Open infrastructure for decentralized data management, publishing, communication, cats.
• I enjoy making software, asking questions, and helping folks with open source needs.
• I’d like a better understanding the core principles of scholarly communications.

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Decentralized Scratch Pad

Joe Hand (+ Danielle Robinson)

• Wiki meets Github with private sharing: A content management system for lab groups to share ideas, figures, files, data, etc. over peer-to-peer networks to improve documentation and collaboration.

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• User can instantly publish a website, share with lab group, and add files, etc. User can privately share scratch pad over Dat

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• We need some users to help identify needs, workflows. Developers that want to contribute to the CMS panel and front-end folks.

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Joe

McArthur

Assistant Director of the Right to Research Coalition, Organizer at OpenCon, Founder of Open Access Button, SPARC

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• Modernizing Interlibrary Loan, supporting healthy communities & culture change, repositories + self archiving workflows that authors <3.
• Product / Org / Community design, connections to others, policy insight for OA/OD/OE, librarian perspectives.
• I’d love to talk to people who’ve been involved in institutional repositories or think of themselves as early career.

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Joe

Wass

Principal R&D Engineer, Crossref

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• Interested in DOIs, scholarly metadata, scholarly links.

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• I can answer questions about metadata, help writing software.

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• I’d love to hear what you think about Event Data!

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Crossref Event Data

Joe Wass

• Citations between articles are considered to be very important in scholarly literature.
• Crossref collects citation links (references) along with a load of other links, such as funders, authors, clinical trial numbers, datasets etc.
• But articles aren’t the only things that cite articles!
• Papers are discussed and referenced in much wider places than traditional scholarly literature. Tweets, Wikipedia, Blogs, News websites, Reddit and many more places have discussions and links to articles.
• We’re collecting those links in an open data set!
• The API is available and in Beta.

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Links from

• Crossref / DataCite dataset links.
• F1000 reviews.
• Hypothes.is annotations.
• The Lens patents citing articles.
• RSS newsfeeds
• Reddit discussions
• StackExchange
• Twitter
• Wikipedia
• Wordpress.com

Julien

Colomb @j_colomb

PhD in Biology, Open science advocate

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• I am into Open science, i.e. OS MOOC, OA publishing, self-taught R coder. I am also the founder of drososhare.net

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• Let’s chat and see how I can help. (This is my 3d mozsprint)

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• Let’s work together !

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Reagents.io

Julien Colomb

• Material in publication are badly described and not uniquely identifiable. Same is true for the information available in the lab inventory. We want to build standards and apps which will allow the information coming from the material provider to end up in the literature, via a passage in the lab inventory
• Create a community, build a proof of concept with 1-3 reagents types.
• Need help with R programming, life science material description, literature curation, community management, publishing

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Kai

Segrud

Software Engineer, Addgene

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• Interest(s)

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• Contribute

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• Ask or need

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Kirstie

Whitaker

Research Fellow, Alan Turing Institute

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• Reproducible research, diversity in STEM, neuroimaging

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• Simple reports on how citing code is improving over time

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• Support in closing out ideas & succeeding in a broken system

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Luc

Henry

Scientific Advisor

EPFL, Switzerland

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• Interest(s): flaws in academia and how to fix them (spoiler alert: open science may be the answer)
• Contribute: Can’t code! But I can test. Bird's-eye view, reality check and connect good ideas
• Ask or need: Any cool project

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Marek

Kultys

Information Designer, Science Practice

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• Interests: Research debt, visual design, bioinformatics, science communication, astrobiology

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• Contribute: Design, UX, UI, information experience, data visualisation, visual design

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• Ask or need: TBD

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Margaret

Gold

Project Officer, European Citizen Science Association

• Citizen Science - ordinary people getting involved in scientific research; and Citizen Observatories - community-based initiatives to crowdsource the collection of environmental measurements

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• Open Data / Open Research / Open Science

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• UI/UX, user-led design, designing for engagement & community

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CHALLENGE - Help me design a Hackathon for Citizen Observatory interoperability

Mark

Patterson

Executive Director, eLife

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• How to develop a culture of transparency and genuine collaboration in science (knitting and live music)
• Experience as a scientist (genetics) and a publisher (review journals and OA publishing)
• A multidisciplinary team to challenge the supremacy of journal names as proxies for evaluating science and people

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Martin

John Hadley

Technical Lead (Interactive Data Network), University of Oxford.

Co-founder, OxShef: dataviz.

Consultant, Visible Data Ltd.

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• Interest(s): Reproducible research, “reproducible dataviz workflows”, Open Science
• Contribute: R, dataviz, UX, enthusiasm, a learner’s perspective
• @martinjhnhadley

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Mattias

Bjornmalm

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• Research fellow, Imperial College London
• Policy specialist, Marie Curie Association, Brussels

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• Interest: tools^🔗 for navigating literature, summaries/briefings of relevant literature ; changing ‘research culture’, incentives
• Contribute: researcher perspective, policy perspective, keen interest
• Ask or need: Project to help with!

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Melissa

Harrison

Head of Production Operations, eLife

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• Efficiencies and automation to reduce manual effort in operations; transitioning publishers to more open ideas (content, infrastructure etc)
• Understanding of the traditional publishing process and ideas for how it can change!
• Developer expertise!

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Min

Ragan-Kelley

Postdoctoral Fellow, Simula Research Laboratory,

Project Jupyter

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• Using Jupyter + Binder to facilitate reproducible scientific publications
• Jupyter, Python expertise. Deployment experience with conda/docker/kubernetes
• Scientific Authors who want to make publications interactive and reproducible

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Nathan

Lisgo

Senior Drupal Developer, eLife

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• Interest(s)

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• Contribute

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• Ask or need

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Nick

Duffield

UX Designer, eLife

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• Improving the consumability of science beyond the expert and UX for article assets

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• Visual Design, User Experience Design

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• Developer, Marketing or Feature Editor

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Nuno

Job

CEO, YLD

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• Nuno Job is the CEO of YLD, a top tier technology consultancy that helps London's top CIOs to respond to the Innovator's Dilemma.
• Interests: Crazy music
• Contribute: Thinking outside the box
• Ask or need: Let’s have some fun!

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Oarabile

Mudongo

Product Developer, Consultant

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• Community Building, Product Ideation

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• Prototyping & Product Modeling

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• Web Dev, Curriculum Dev, Copy Right

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#Rethink Web Literacy

omudongo

• There is a need for alliance of technology and educators in developing marginalized societies. This we can achieve by emphasizing web literacy as a required, basic, indispensable competency in the 21st century especially for young people in schools.
• Develop a framework for entry-level web literacy & 21st Century skills. Explore the activities by selecting relevant material and topics to be covered.
• Problem-solving, Creativity, Collaboration, & Communication

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Paul

Shannon

Head of Technology, eLife

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• Lean software delivery and anything open source

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• I can lend a hand in data analysis, multiple programming languages and automated testing

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• Talk to me about slicing up ideas to deliver value early

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Peter

Murray-Rust

Founder, ContentMine

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• Interest(s) Content-mining, Wikidata, Copyright reform

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• Contribute Wikidata, annotation, chemistry

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• Ask or need UX

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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/File:Peter_Murray-Rust,8083944.JPG

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WIKIDATA

50 million items, 300 million RDF statements

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Every scientific discipline

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300 subject dictionaries for annotation

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Open semantic scientific knowledge

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Interoperable with other projects

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http://contentmine.org

Richard

Smith-Unna

Scientist & Software Developer, ScienceFair

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• Publishing infrastructure, decentralisation, RSE

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• Software engineering, tool + devops help, systems design

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• Interesting problems

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Rosario

Villajos

UX Designer at Springer Nature and comic author in my spare time.

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• Publishing on the go, specially Negative Results, unpublished mistakes in general. Also Sci-Fi, because it can change the world.

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• Some design skills and ability to be wrong.

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• Researchers who knows about this topic. Mistakes are welcome.

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Ross

Mounce

Director of Open Access Programmes, Arcadia Fund

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• Interests: 🦕 🌵

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• Contributes: �Boycott Elsevier stickers

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• Ask or need:

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Ruben

Paz

Backend Developer, Repositive

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• Collaborative systems. Open science, OSS. System architecture.

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• I can help with domain definition and plans of attack. Hands on on prototyping and system operations support.�
• Domain experts, someone to bounce ideas off

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Sam

Galson

Software Engineer, YLD

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• Interests:
• Web development
• History of science (ex-researcher)

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• Can contribute:
• A humanities perspective
• Software engineering skills

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• Needs/asks
• To know what you need
• To understand tools/resources available

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Sam

Walton

Partnerships Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation

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• Citations (particularly open access) on Wikipedia

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• Knowledge of Wikimedia projects and tools, some technical/data analysis skills

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• More technical skills!

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Visualising Wikipedia’s Citations

Sam Walton

• The citations with identifiers in Wikipedia dataset contains a wealth of information about the citations present on Wikipedia but is opaque without technical skills

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• Create a publicly available search and visualisation tool for the dataset, integrating other appropriate data

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• (Web) developers, anyone with an interest in visualising data.

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Sara

Bosshart

Open Access Publisher, IWA Publishing

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• OA awareness, discoverability, interactibility (should be a word!), holding my breath underwater

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• Ideas, resourcefulness, knowledge of the industry status quo (and what could be better!), ex-researcher perspective

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• Anyone who can actually turn ideas into something concrete

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Sean

Wiseman

Senior Developer, eLife

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• Software development, Jazz

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• I can build and implement backend solutions as well as dynamic frontend single page applications

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• Problems that can benefit from new technologies and a community input

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Simon

Hazelwood-Smith

Researcher and Designer, Science Practice

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• Interests: Improving software tools for the life sciences. Translating science into useful tools and services.

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• Can offer: User research and user interface design.

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• Need help with: Software development

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Vilim

Štih

PhD Student, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology

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• New formats for scientific publishing

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• Python or Julia code, design skills, data visualization

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• Web development skills, especially Javascript and experience with distributed systems

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Scientific articles supporting transclusion and

bidirectional links

elifesciences.org

@eLifeInnovation

elifesci.org/labs

Slides:http://doi.org/cmt6

Vincent

Tunru

Software Engineer, Flockademic

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• I’d like to help researchers open up their research

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• Can program/prototype, and help brainstorming ideas

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• Bear with me as I try to articulate my thoughts (especially in English)

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Journal-independent credentialing

Vincent

• Help researchers highlight the quality of their work without needing to publish in “prestigious” journals.

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• Aim for the Sprint: Brainstorm list of ideas that would make researchers comfortable enough to forego traditional journals, and prototype one or two of them.

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• Skills & experiences required: people with an academic background, designers, engineers, UX researchers, marketers, …

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Vot

Zardzewialy

Development Team Lead, Cambridge University Press

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• Interests: software development, music

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• Contribution: years of software development experience

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• Ask or need: ideas for Free/Open Source software projects :)

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First name

Last name

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Job title, Organisation

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• Interest(s)

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• Contribute

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• Ask or need

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TEMPLATE - do not remove; please copy & paste slide to use

Easy way to get translations for scientific abstracts

Luc

• And organising an open conference - beyond the usual. Idea for speakers, build the program etc

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• Unstructured data, scattered around this is all the metadata associated with it.
• What is a dataset? Is this other metadata part of it, what is useful
• Link core

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• Aim for the Sprint

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• Skills & experiences required

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Ale

Notebooks

Riot matrix rooms

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Sam yld

• Document library of PDFs with highlights. Extract the hilights and create a database so can search them

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• Aim for the Sprint

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#eLifeSprint 2018

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• Exploring different data sources
• Historical biographies
• If you have any data and want to explore it differently

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#eLifeSprint 2018

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