The document describes SASI (Scientific Announcement Standards Initiative), a lightweight standard for exchanging course information between life science organizations. It discusses problems with the current redundant and inconsistent annotation and distribution of announcements. The proposed solution is a centralized registry for annotation using agreed-upon standards, with decentralized distribution of announcements. This would allow automatic exchange of standardized announcements to reduce effort and improve discoverability.

1. SASI, A lightweight standard for
exchanging course information
Rafael C Jimenez
17 March 2014
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

2. A sustainable and collaborative
strategy to distribute
announcements

3. Announcement
A public statement containing
information about an event that has
happened or is going to happen.

4. Announcements
Data Flow
collect
Event
Organizers Societies Community
Annotation Distribution
advertise advertise
search
Courses, workshops, meetings, seminars,
conferences, symposiums, webinars …

5. Annotation process
The same announcement is reported
several times in different ways and
collected in a nonstandard way by
multiple repositories for
advertisement.
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collect
Event
Organizers Societies
Annotation
advertise

6. Distribution process
The same announcement is usually
reported by several repositories
with different content
and in nonstandard way.
Societies Community
Distribution
advertise
search

7. Main problems
Working in isolation
Lack of standardization
… leading to …
Redundant work
Time consuming process
Sustainability issues
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8. Announcements available in proteomics websites
ORGANIZATION Up to date Out of date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
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9. Solution
Collaborate on the collection and
annotation of announcements
Centralized curation
Decentralized dissemination
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10. Curation Centralization Distribution Integration
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Registry
Input
form
Input
form
Web
service
Web
service
Web
service
Web
service
Web
site
Visualization
Modules
iCalendar
SOLR
iAnn
Web
service
Web
service
RSS

11. iAnn
Editor
iAnn
Web Service
iAnn
Visualization
partners
Integration
iAnn
Registry
iAnn

12. Web
site

13. Web
site

14. Web
site

15. Web
site

16. Web
site

17. Web
site

19. Pending issues
Event providers do not follow
community standard
Not automated
annotation process
Data exchange
Data integration
collect
Event
Organizers Societies
Annotation
advertise

20. Manual 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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21. Format
Ontology
Minimum
Information
guideline
Standards to exchange announcements among bioinformatics societies
More data coverage, less redundancy, less inconsistency, better data management
Integration
Access
Exchange
Sharing
Portability
Interoperability
Annotation
Comparison
Verification
Reusability
Representation

22. Consensus standard for automatic
announcement exchange among life
science organizations
Scientific Announcement Standards Initiative

23. Query interface
Ontology
Minimum Information
guideline
SASIEF
SASIQISASIMI
SASIO
Validator
SASIV
Exchange Format
Scientific Announcement Standards Initiative
SASIPI
Persistent identifiers

24. Query interface
Ontology
Minimum Information
guideline
SASIEF
SASIQISASIMI
SASIO
Validator
SASIV
Exchange Format
Scientific Announcement Standards Initiative
SASIPI
Persistent identifiers

25. Community agreement through Goblet

29. Results
• 42 fields
– 13 minimum
– 13 recommended
– 16 optional
• 27 organizations
• 11 sites
– iAnn
– EBI
– Bioinformatics.ca
– ISCB
– BioIT
– EMBnet
– SIB
– Biometer
– GOBLET
– ABN
– on-course
SASIMI
– Type
– Topic
– Audience
– Eligibility
– Status
SASIO
SASIEF
– iCalendar
– vCard
Ontology
Minimum Information guideline
Exchange Format

30. Data exchange use case
EMBL-EBI events
iAnn
Registry
SASIMI
SASIO
SASIEF

31. Training portal use case
Collaborative development

33. GOBLET & ELIXIR
Training portal
Trainers
Materials
Courses Widgets
Web
site
Web
site
Web
site
Web
service
Curation Centralization Distribution Web IntegrationVisualization
DB
DB
DB Web
service
Web
service
Web
service
Input
form
Input
form
Input
form
Input
form
Input
form
Input
form
Federation
Providers Consumers
TESS

34. Data exchange
Trainers
Materials
Courses
TESS

35. Reusability & interoperability
Trainers
Materials
Courses
TESS
Widgets
iCalendar vCard
Tools

36. Topics and audience
Trainers
Materials
Courses
topics
audience

37. Minimum metadata
life sciences
Courses Materials
Trainers…
ServicesJobs
• Title
• Description
• Creator
• Publication Date
• Topics
• Audience

38. Summary
Sustainability
… led by …
Community agreements
Collaborative development
Reusing data & tools & formats
Minimum information

39. Thanks for listening!
Questions?

40. 40

41. 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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42. 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

43. 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