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:: Building Linked Web Communities in Biomedicine to Accelerate Research

The meeting "Building Linked Web Communities in Biomedicine to Accelerate Research", was designed to bring together individuals from basic research, medicine, non-profit foundations, and industry who have a strong interest in creating productive web communities. The agenda includes speaker presentations and panel discussions that describe the characteristics of successful web-based research communities, explore developments in open-source technology platforms, and discuss the value and structure of a semantic framework for integrating searches across multiple communities.

Agenda


7:30-8:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast Metro Meeting Center
101 Federal Street, 4th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts		 Map
8:30 a.m. Welcome and Introduction
Creating eCommunities for Biomedicine Using The Science Collaboration Framework (SCF)
and Web 3.0
Tim Clark, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
9:10 a.m. The Digital Commons: Infrastructure for The Linked Web
John Wilbanks, Creative Commons (link)

Practical Experiences in Building Biomedical Web Communities
June Kinoshita, Alzheimer Research Forum - Chair

9:50 a.m. Alzheimer Research Forum: One Vision - Twelve Years of Growth (pdf)
Gabrielle Strobel, Alzheimer Research Forum
10:10 a.m. StemBook: An Online Review of Stem Cell Biology
Lisa Girard, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
10:30-10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. PD Online Research: An Experiment in Community-Guided Investment in Parkinson's Disease Research
Michael Rogan, Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
11:05 a.m. Schizophrenia Research Forum: How Psychiatrists Came to Love their Forum (pps)
Angela Epshtein, Schizophrenia Research Forum
11:25 a.m. Discussion
12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch

Discourse and Experiment
Tim Clark - Chair

1:00 p.m. The SWAN Alzheimer Knowledge Base (pps)
Elizabeth Wu, Alzheimer Research Forum
1:30 p.m. Sharing Experimental Analysis Methods Using myExperiment
David De Roure, University of Southampton UK

Panel Discussion: Integrating Digital Communities in Neuroscience
Rosalind Reid, Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC) - Chair

2:00 p.m. Kei Cheung, Yale Center for Medical Informatics (pps)
Anita de Waard, Elsevier/Utrecht University (pdf)
William Hayes, Biogen Idec (pps)
Maryann Martone, University of California at San Diego/ Society for Neuroscience
Susie Stephens, Eli Lilly and Company (pps)
3:20 p.m. Discussion


4:00-5:00 p.m. Workshop Discussions: Community Goals
  Shared Annotation Vocabularies for Electronic Publishing
Leader: Maryann Martone
Web Communities for Curing Complex Diseases
Leader: Gabrielle Strobel
Common Resources and Linked Data on the Web
Leader: Susie Stephens (pps)


5:00-5:30 p.m. Workshop Reports and Discussions
  Sudeshna Das, Massachusetts General Hospital/IIC-Moderator


5:30-7:00 p.m. Reception


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