Sling, Nov 2010.

1. A sustainable and collaborative
strategy to distribute
announcements
Rafael Jimenez
Nov 2010, Sling meeting

2. Announcement
• A public statement containing information
about an event that has happened or is going
to happen.
• Types of announcements:
– Meetings, courses, workshops, newsletters,
reports, seminars, bursaries, studentships,
conferences, symposiums, job offers, webinars …

3. Announcements
Data Flow
collect
Event
Organizers
News
Producers
Societies Community
Annotation Distribution
advertise advertise
search

4. Announcements
Annotation process
The same announcement is usually
reported by several sources in
several formats and collected in
several websites for advertisement.
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6. Redundant
annotation process
Announcement
Collect
Webmasters
Websites
Annotate
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Society Society Society Society Society Society

7. Arduous
annotation process
• Collect announcement
• Check if it is already annotated
• Verify details
• Upload into the website
• Classify announcement
• Update announcement
• Delete out of date
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8. Inefficient
annotation process
• Individual
• Isolated
• Redundant
• Not standardized
• Time consuming
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9. Distribution process
The same announcement is usually
reported by several websites
with different content
and in different formats.
A small number of
announcements due to the
demanding process of collection.

10. Some numbers
ORGANIZATION Up to date Out of date
Wiley - goProteomics 34 18
British Society for Proteome research 13 0
Russsian Human Proteom Organization 12 13
European Proteomics Association 10 4
La Société Française d'Electrophorèse et d'Analyse Protéomique 5 0
Swedish Proteomics Society 5 0
Proteored 3 0
Spanish Society of Proteomic 3 0
Portuguese Proteomics Network 3 2
Human Proteome Organization 2 1
Hellenic Proteomics Society 2 23
Australasian Proteomics Society 1 0
Norwegian Proteomics Society 1 13
Iranian Proteomics Society 1 16
Danish Proteomics Society 0 0
India Proteomics Society 0 0
German Electrophoresis Society 0 0
US HUPO 0 1
The Hong kong Proteomics Society 0 2
The German Society for Proteome Research 0 8
Swiss Proteomics Society 0 44
July 11, 2010
Meeting, course and conference announcements available in proteomics websites
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11. Facts
• Societies do redundant work annotating announcements
• Societies provide a small number of existent scientific
announcements
• The scientific announcements lack standardization:
Minimum Information Guidelines, schemas and formats
• There is not a good repository of scientific
announcements
• There is not a good system to find and query scientific
announcements.
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12. Solution
• Centralize curation.
• Decentralize and customize announcement
dissemination.
• A system to curate, manage, organize, centralize,
standardize, distribute and query scientific
announcements.
• A system that makes scientific organizations to
collaborate on the collection and annotation of
announcements.
• Software compliant applications easy to adopt and
integrate to visualize and search announcements.
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13. Announcements
Collaborative annotation
collect
News
Producers
Community
Annotation
advertise
Registry
WS
annotation
Societies
curation
annotation
Event
Organizers

14. Announcements
Dissemination and promotion
advertisement
search
Community
Distribution
Registry
WS
Societies
query
query

15. Outcomes
• Collaboration
• Organization
• Centralization
• Standardization
• Distribution
• No more redundant work
• Less annotation effort
• More announcements
• Quality announcements
• Content standardization
• Automatic updates
• Safe backups
• Powerful queries
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16. Dissemination and promotion
Example
Input form Repository Webservice Society’s website
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Registry
WS

17. Dissemination and promotion
Example
• ie: all the proteomics
meetings in the UK
between June and July
• Filter by:
– Date
– Category
– Title
– Country
– City
– Venue
– …
http://rajido.com/aproteomics/ws.php?
category=%25meeting%25&start=2010-05-01&end=2010-07-30&country=United Kingdom
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18. Thanks for listening!
Questions?