Four groups to discuss four topics which relate to the development of projects for scholarly data integration and distributed annotation (e.g. WikiAuthors).

Describe: problems, solutions, future evolution of the topic.

1 hour discuss + 1/2 hour reports (take notes, write clearly! )

Breakout session

Bruce HerrJeff KrauseMiguel AndradeKetan ManeMike PollardErik van Mulligen

Ron DayLokman MehoKaty BörnerRicardo PietrobonThom HickeyMartijn Schuemie

Damien ShermanMarc WeeberWeixia HuangSumeet AmbreIsrael LederhendlerStacy Kowalczyk

Neil SmalheiserErik MöllerGavin La RoweJames PringleJohn BurgoonBarend Mons

Breakout session

Breakout session

1. Author ID - standards:

How do we set a unique author ID standard?

How do we get everybody to agree and to use it?

What about other standards for genes, proteins, institutions?

Which ones do you think are needed in relation to these projects?

Breakout session

2. Funding

Who would be giving the money for these projects?

Why?

How the funding situation could change in the future as the projects develop?

Breakout session

3. Incentive design:

How do we engage the community to participate?

How do we convince database owners and companies to participate and contribute data?

How do we facilitate contributions by computer-illiterate people?

Breakout session

4. Technical

What technologically feasible and politically manageable approaches might result in a high quality, high coverage integration of existing and future scholarly databases?

Consider a blend of of automatic, top-down and wiki-like, bottom-up driven data integration approaches.

Neil SmalheiserErik MöllerGavin La RoweJames PringleJohn BurgoonBarend Mons

Bruce HerrJeff KrauseMiguel AndradeKetan ManeMike PollardErik van Mulligen

Damien ShermanMarc WeeberWeixia HuangSumeet AmbreIsrael LederhendlerStacy Kowalczyk

Ron DayLokman MehoKaty BörnerRicardo PietrobonThom HickeyMartijn Schuemie

Breakout session1. Author ID - standards:

How do we set a unique author ID standard?

How do we get everybody to agree and to use it?

What about other standards for genes, proteins, institutions?

Which ones do you think are needed in relation to these projects?

2. Funding

Who would be giving the money for these projects?

Why?

How the funding situation could change in the future as the projects develop?

3. Incentive design:

How do we engage the community to participate?

How do we convince database owners and companies to participate and contribute data?

How do we facilitate contributions by computer-illiterate people?

4. Technical

What technologically feasible and politically manageable approaches might result in a high quality, high coverage integration of existing and future scholarly databases?

Consider a blend of of automatic, top-down and wiki-like, bottom-up driven data integration approaches.