Annotat-athon for research!

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[ UUID ] cded1b1c-47e8-466f-bb7d-a948ccda97d2

[ Session Name ] Annotat-athon for research! [ Primary Space ] Open Innovation [ Secondary Space ] Decentralization

[ Submitter's Name ] Naomi Penfold [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] eLife [ Submitter's Github ] @npscience

What will happen in your session?

We will start with a 10-minute demo of hypothes.is (the annotation web extension) and how annotations can be used in research, including for scientific commenting, increasing accessibility, and fostering discussion. Participants will be invited to use hypothes.is to annotate research articles (anywhere on the web, but we can collate some research articles of interest on eLife and preprint servers). At the end, we will spend 20 minutes collaboratively speed-blogging about what we did. We could include ideas for how to make this easier or more useful going forward, and to highlight the different purposes for annotating.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

To add annotations to the scientific literature online, to help participants to try out hypothes.is, and to produce a blog about annotating science articles. If possible, it would be great to inspire some people to start new journal clubs based on online annotations - either for research review purposes, or for increasing the accessibility of science to the non-expert.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

It would be helpful to have ~5 laptops available for anyone who doesn’t bring their own device. Easy access to charging points would be very useful, thanks! Of course, good wi-fi is essential for this.

Time needed

90 mins

[npscience]

Hi @dasaderi - are you planning on going to MozFest? If so, would you be interested in taking part in this session if it gets picked? It could be awesome to try out the 'journal club on hypothes.is' angle here.

[dasaderi]

That would be amazing! I have not submitted a session myself but @SamanthaHindle has submitted one for both of us for the PreprintJC project. I don't yet have funding to travel to MozFest, so I'll come only if I can get any, but it won't be easy since I have already got funding from the OHSU library last year for OpenCon and Mozilla WOW in Montreal and my NIH grant doesn't pay for conferences that are not Neuroscience related. Do you know where I can apply to get some travel money? -Thanks

[SamanthaHindle]

Hi @npscience - our proposal for a discussion about preprints and the future of scientific publishing is here. If either of our proposals get selected, maybe we could merge them and work together? I was excited to see your session is focused on commenting and incorporating preprints into journal clubs 🥇

[npscience]

@dasaderi I don't unfortunately. Maybe Mozilla folk can help out with alternatives? (The eLife travel grants are specific to scientific conferences.)

Thanks @SamanthaHindle - and we should definitely invoke ASAPbio support at some point.

[ScottBGI]

Feel free to build upon the Annotometer leaderboard we've previously used for annotation competitions (including using hypothes.is) https://github.com/gigascience/annotometer

[npscience]

Many thanks @ScottBGI! That would be cool as a leaderboard feature :)

[re-figure]

Hi @npscience I believe hypothes.is allows groups where all annotations can be posted under one umbrella. Maybe you could create one? I would love to see the output of the annotation. If people are connecting texts from different papers together and of referring to another paper in the annotation, this could synergize into a ReFigure for the participants.

[phillipadsmith]

Subscribing

[phillipadsmith]

@auremoser This one also seems like a fit, but didn't make it through to the list yesterday.

[KirstieJane]

Hi @npscience, @SamanthaHindle & @dasaderi! Thank you all for submitting so many amazing proposals! We're having a really tough time narrowing down our accepted list, so I wonder how you'd feel about working together on a session merging this one with the preprint journal club proposal: #757? Seems like some of the other ideas could be merged in really nicely. Happy to discuss!

[dasaderi]

@KirstieJane, thank you for your note and for all the hard work you and other Mozillians are putting into the MozFest organization.

I think merging the two sessions would make a lot of sense. @npscience, @SamanthaHindle and I have a phone call scheduled for next week to talk about a collaborative post to release on OAweek, and I suppose we could talk about this as well.

[KirstieJane]

I'm removing the Open Innovation milestone. @npscience, you'll get a form "rejection" email for this session, but that's just paperwork: we'd love for you to merge the idea with #757! Thank you for all the great proposals ✨

[SamanthaHindle]

Hi @KirstieJane I would love to work with @npscience and @dasaderi and merge with our #757 proposal. Thank you so much for all your hard work, and sorry for my delayed reply.

[npscience]

My sincere apologies for the radio silence!

Many thanks for handling @KirstieJane, and yes I'd absolutely like to work with @dasaderi and @SamanthaHindle on their proposal. As said, let's discuss this on our upcoming call!

Thanks so much to everyone who showed interest here. Do join the convo at #757

[dwhly]

Hi! A note that I will try to be there for Mozfest, and was planning to attend and would be delighted to bring the viewpoint of Hypothesis with respect to supporting annotation via open source software.

[npscience]

Hi @dwhly - thank you! I'll repost this on #757 for follow up.

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