IRBW2009 workshop, May 13-14, Toronto

The GEN2PHEN Consortium, with participation from HUGO, P3G, Genome Canada, and Wellcome Trust, is organizing a high-level workshop on the topic of online identity for researchers, more specifically how to 'identify' researchers as they use or contribute to biomedical science on the Internet - a subject that is rapidly becoming a very hot topic.

This reflects our desire to optimise information flow and debate on this exciting topic, towards robust systems for online identity (or 'individual ID' ) usage on the web (see the online primer and whitepaper for further details). Such systems would enable activities such as;

• author/researcher disambiguation
• tracking and accrediting scientific contributions
• streamlined and equitable control of access to sensitive datasets
• and hence, more rapid release and effective use of biomedical information

Workshop details

Title: Identifying Researchers on the Biomedical Web (IRBW2009)

Place: Sheraton Gateway Hotel, Toronto International Airport, Canada

Date: evening May 13th to afternoon May 14th (following the Data Release meeting at the same venue)

Registration is now open!: if you wish to attend, please a) fill out the registration form (even if you already told us in E-mail correspondence that  you are coming) and b) book your onsite accommodation at the venue website. We have negotiated a special room rate at the hotel venue, and we will provide food for the main day of the meeting. However, you will need to pay your own travel and accommodation costs.

NB For those also attending the Data Release meeting at the same venue on May 12-13: please note that i) this workshop follows the Data Release meeting and thus will start in the evening on the 13th, and ii) your accommodation will not be extended automatically; you have to arrange this with the hotel separately.

Agenda (final) and presenter slides

Wednesday May 13th   17:45 - 20:00

17:45 – 20:00  Snacks in room

Anthony J Brookes	Welcome and Introduction (PPT)
Gudmundur A Thorisson	Overview of the field & core technologies (PPT)
Session 1:	Digital identity
James Walker	Digital identity with OpenID (PPT)
Kent Percival	Identity management in higher education and research (PPT)
Thursday May 14th   8:00 – 17:00 8:00 – 8:30 Breakfast in room
Session 2:	Author name disambiguation
Reynold Guida	Thomson Reuters ‘ResearcherID’ (PPT)
Steven Petric	Elsevier Scopus ‘Author Identifier’ (PPT)
Geoffrey Bilder	CrossRef ‘Contributor ID’ project (PDF)
Coffee break
Session 3:	Data access control
Anthony J Brookes	Access to aggregate data from genome-wide association studies (PPT)
John Gallacher	Data sharing in UK Biobank (PPT)
Lincoln D Stein	The ICGC Data Coordinating Centre (slides not provided)
12:00 – 13:00 Group lunch in room
Session 4:	Contribution recognition
Myles Axton	Contributor recognition (PPT)
Anne Cambon-Thomsen	Collective authorship and microattribution (PPT)
Bharati Babat	InSiGHT and the Human Variome Project Initiative (PPT)
Barend Mons	Community annotation in WikiProteins (PPT)
Coffee break 16:00 – 17:00 General discussions

    

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