About
View videos of the presentations from the Microsoft Research eScience Workshop, Transforming Scholarly Communication. Mic
rosoft Research and Harvard University sponsored this invitation-only event from October 23 to 25, 2011, at the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The workshop—co-sponsored in close collaboration with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation—convened experts in scholarly communication from academia, the publishing industry, scholarly and learned societies, and funding
The workshop identified and promoted the adoption of new platforms and approaches to facilitate research in the eSciences. In response to growing interest in new forms of communication, the workshop helped participants transition to these new paradigms effectively and sustainably.
Learn More
- Beyond the PDF Workshop (January 2011)
- Elsevier’s Article of the Future Project
- PLoS Article-Level Metrics
- Dataverse
- Dryad Project
- PressForward
- ORCID
- DataCite
Workshop T
opics
- Research Management: project collaboration software, “smart” laboratory software, provenance systems
- Communication (New Media): production, distribution, archiving (for example, video, 3-D modeling, and databases)
- Communication (Literature-Based): publications based on text and still images (creation, reviewing, dissemination, archiving, reproducibility)
- Communication (Peer Review): standard publication-based systems, alternative rating systems, etc.
- Resource and Information Management: seamless technologies for literature and data (literature and data search engines; cloud-based, group sharing, adjustable permissions, integration with search
- Credit and Citation Models: how can we best enable cooperation and adoption?
Workshop Organizing Committee
- Alyssa Goodman—professor of Astronomy and research associate, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University
- Alberto Pepe—Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University
- Mary Lee Kennedy—senior associate provost, Harvard Library, Harvard University
- Malgorzata (Gosia) Stergios—knowledge and information programs strategist, Harvard University
- Lee Dirks—director, Microsoft Research Connections
- Alex Wade—director, Scholarly Communication, Microsoft Research
- Joshua M. Greenberg—director, Digital Information Technology and the Dissemination of Knowledge Program, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Chris Mentzel—program officer, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Primary support for the workshop was pro
vided by Microsoft Research Connections, headed by Corporate Vice President Tony Hey, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Agenda
Sunday, October 23, 2011
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17:00–19:00 | Opening Reception – Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, on the Harvard University Campus
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Monday, October 24, 2011
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8:30–9:00 | Light breakfast – Microsoft Research New England, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142 | ||||
9:00–9:20 | Welcome and Introductions | video
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9:20–10:50 | Invited Demonstrations Session I (10 minutes per demonstrator)
Moderator: Mary Lee Kennedy, Senior Associate Provost for the Library, Harvard University
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10:50–11:20 | Break | ||||
11:20–12:50 | Invited Demonstrations Session II (10 minutes per demonstrator)
Moderator: Alberto Pepe, Postdoctoral Associate, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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12:50–13:50 | Lunch | ||||
13:50–15:10 | Breakout Sessions I
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15:10–15:30 | Break | ||||
15:30–17:00 | Breakout Sessions II: Continued group discussion | ||||
17:00 | Adjourn and transfer to Hyatt Cambridge | ||||
18:00–21:00 | Dinner and (optional) team discussion/editing sessions (Empress Ballroom, Hyatt Cambridge); Wi-Fi will be available |
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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8:30–9:00 | Light breakfast – Microsoft Research New England | ||||
9:00–9:30 | Day 1 Recap and Discussion | video
Lee Dirks, Director of Education and Scholarly Communication, Microsoft Research Connections, and Alyssa Goodman, Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University and Research Associate, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
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9:30–11:00 | Breakout Sessions III: Finalize reports (via tumblr site) | ||||
11:00–13:00 | Synthesis of Ideas and Recommendations
(working lunch): Distribution and review of group reports and recommendations, including cross-group consultation |
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13:00–15:00 | Group Reporting and Summary | video
Moderators: Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research Connections, and Lee Dirks, Director of Education and Scholarly Communication, Microsoft Research Connections, with Marguey Avery, Editor, MIT Press
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15:00 | Adjourn |
Post Meeting
It is anticipated that the reports and other output created by the groups will be made available to the broader community via this event website and the tumblr site. In addition, meeting organizers and focus group leaders will create a summary of the meeting outcomes that can be distributed broadly. This overall summary will present a roadmap for action with a four- to five-year time horizon specifying recommendations for the whole scholarly communications ecosystem. Microsoft Research and Harvard will publicize the meeting results.
Videos
View videos of the presentations from the October 23–25, 2011, workshop. See the agenda for information about the presentations.
- Welcome and Introductions: Transforming Scholarly Communication | 00:17:25 · 24 October 2011
- Invited Demonstration: myExperiment, David DeRoure | 00:09:42 · 24 October 2011
- Invited Demonstration: SWAN, Tim Clark | 00:11:06 · 24 October 2011
- Invited Demonstration: SciVerse, Rafael Sidi | 00:09:48 · 24 October 2011
- Invited Demonstration: SciVee and BioLit, Phil Bourne | 00:09:16 · 24 October 2011
- Invited Demonstration: JoVE, Moshe Pritsker | 00:12:06 · 24 October 2011
- Invited Demonstration: Zooniverse, Chris Lintott | 00:10:20 · 24 October 2011
- Invited Demonstration: Computable Document Format—CDF, Taliesin Beynon | 00:10:25 · 24 October 2011
- Invited Demonstration: Chemistry Add-in for Word and Article Authoring Add-In, Alex Wade | 00:10:26 · 24 October 2011
- Invited Demonstration: Papers for iPad, Charles Parnot | 00:08:32 · 24 October 2011
- Invited Demonstration: Article Level Metrics, Peter Binfield | 00:10:59 · 24 October 2011
- Invited Demonstration: F1000, Sarah Greene | 00:10:39 · 24 October 2011
- Invited Demonstration: Total-Impact, Jason Priem | 00:11:46 · 24 October 2011
- Invited Demonstration: ADS and ADS Labs, Alberto Accomazzi | 00:10:20 · 24 October 2011
- Invited Demonstration: Dataverse, Mercé Crosas | 00:11:58 · 24 October 2011
- Invited Demonstration: Terabitz, Ashfaq Munshi | 00:08:36 · 24 October 2011
- Invited Demonstration: Eigenfactor, Jevin West | 00:09:54 · 24 October 2011
- Invited Demonstration: Mendeley, Jessica Mezei | 00:10:14 · 24 October 2011
- Invited Demonstration: Microsoft Academic Search, Lee Dirks | 00:09:14 · 24 October 2011
- Day 1 Recap and Discussion: Transforming Scholarly Communication | 00:15:58 · 25 October 2011
- Group Reporting and Summary: Transforming Scholarly Communication | 01:51:26 · 25 October 2011