28 November 2011

1. A sustainable and collaborative
strategy to distribute
announcements
Rafael Jimenez
28 November 2011

3. Announcements
Data Flow
collect
Event
Organizers
News
Producers
Societies Community
Annotation Distribution
advertise advertise
search
Meetings, courses, workshops, newsletters, reports,
seminars, bursaries, studentships, conferences,
symposiums, job offers, webinars …

4. Announcements
Annotation process
The same announcement is usually
reported many times in different
ways and collected in a
nonstandard way by multiple
repositories for advertisement.
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collect
Event
Organizers
News
Producers
Societies
Annotation
advertise

5. Redundant
advertisement
Announcement
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Advertise
E-mail, forums, Twitter, Websites, …
formats + schemas + description + minimum information

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7. Redundant
collection
Announcement
Collect
Curators
Repositories
Annotate
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Society Society Society Society
nonstandard
redundant

8. 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• Delete out of date
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9. Inefficient
annotation process
• Individual
• Isolated
• Redundant
• Not standardized
• Time consuming
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10. Distribution process
The same announcement is usually reported
by several repositories with different content
and in different ways.
A small number of
announcements due to the
demanding process of collection.
Societies Community
Distribution
advertise
search

11. 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ORGANIZATION Up to date Out of date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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12. Facts
• Societies do redundant work annotating
announcements
• Societies provide a small number of existent
scientific announcements
• The scientific announcements lack standardization:
Minimum Information Guidelines, controlled vocabularies 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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13. Solution
• Centralize curation
• Decentralize a customize 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 easy to integrate in web applications to visualize
and search announcements.
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14. Redundant
collection
Announcement
Collect
Curators
Repositories
Annotate
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Society Society Society Society
different forms
several sources
different forms

15. Collaborative
collection
Announcement
Collect
Curators
Repositories
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Society Society Society Society
several sources
different forms
RegistryRegistry
Decentralized dissemination
Centralized curation

16. 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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17. Curation Centralization Distribution Integration
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Registry
Input
form
Input
form
SOLRSOLR
RSSRSS
Web
site
Visualization
Modules
web service
web service
iAnn

18. Input
form
Input
form

19. Input
form
Input
form

20. 20
Curator
Input
form
Input
form
Registry
Input
form
Input
form
Registry
Anybody
Curator
Registry

21. SOLRSOLR
http://iann.pro/solr/select/?q=country:"United Kingdom"
AND category:meeting AND field:Proteomics AND start
%3A[* TO 2012-11-30T00%3A00%3A00Z]
FILTERS i.e.
•Proteomics
•Meetings
•UK
•Specific date

22. RSSRSS
http://iann.pro/rss/feed?q=country:"United
Kingdom" AND category:meeting AND
field:Proteomics AND start%3A[* TO 2012-11-
30T00%3A00%3A00Z]
FILTERS i.e.
•Proteomics
•Meetings
•UK
•Specific date

23. • Visualize announcements
– List
– Map
– Calendar
• Easy to customize
– Style
– Content
Modules
Website AWebsite A
Module
Website BWebsite B
Module
Website CWebsite C
Module
Website DWebsite D
Module

24. Web
site

25. Web
site

26. Web
site

27. Web
site

28. Web
site

29. • NAR - Web Server Issue
• Proposal by 31 December 2011.
• Article by 31 January 2012.

30. Thanks to …

31. • Non-profit
• Legal entity to support iAnn

34. Thanks for listening!
Questions?