We have now added videos of the sessions to the Conference Programme page. Unfortunately, we do not have recordings for two of the four breakout sessions, and the speakers of the Legal and Ethical Aspects of Science Blogging session have asked that their session not be recorded.
A big Thank You goes to Joanna Scott/Nature for recording, editing and uploading the videos to Vimeo!
Science Online London is less than a week away. In order to prepare your mind for the conference, you could watch the video of a recent panel discussion with Jimmy Watson, Stephen Friend and John Wilbanks – moderated by Tim O’Reilly. Some of the topics they talk about will also be discussed at Science Online London.
Making the Web Work for Science – Full from Jordan Mendelson on Vimeo.
The video is 60 minutes long, a short 15 minute version can be found here.
After we have announced all 10 sessions in a series of blog posts over the last two weeks, we have now published the complete conference programme. After registration and breakfast we will start the conference at 9.30 AM. We will finish around 6 PM, and then move the discussion to the pub. We thought that it would be great to have as many sessions as possible as plenary sessions, so that participants have a similar conference experience. And we decided against the popular unconference format, as we wanted to have speakers and session topics different from last year’s Science Blogging 2008: London and ScienceOnline’09 earlier this year in North Carolina. We almost succeeded in that goal. You will also notice that the session topics reflect the name change to Science Online London, sessions are not only about blogging, but about many other topics related to doing and communicating science online. We encouraged our session speakers to give an introduction to the topic, but then leave enough room for open discussion.
We hope you look forward to the conference as much as we do. And we hope to see many of you in three weeks time at the Royal Institution (or in Second Life, if you can’t come to the conference in person).
Victor Henning, Richard Grant, Virginia Barbour
Academic prestige, setting research trends, getting jobs and tenure, grant funding – they are largely based on publishing in high-Impact Factor journals and getting citations. Not only are these measures flawed and widely critized: “You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature”, said Nobel laureate Paul Lauterbur. Citation measures are also subject to a considerable time-lag. If you write a paper today, it takes a year to get it published, and another year passes by until citations of it appear. What if there were alternative measures of scientific impact? What if these measures were available in real-time, letting you track the trends in your discipline as they develop? That’s what we’ll discuss in this session.
Duncan Hull, Geoffrey Bilder, Michael Habib, Reynold Guida
ResearcherID, Contributor ID, Scopus Author ID, etc. help to connect your scientific record. How do these tools connect to your online identity, and how can OpenID and other tools be integrated? How can we build an online reputation and when should we worry about our privacy?
All of the attendee slots for Science Online London 2009 are now filled and registrants are being placed on a waiting list. If you didn’t register in time or can’t travel to London on the day, you can still attend! The conference will be streamed live by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) into the virtual world Second Life and attendees worldwide are welcome to attend.
We will be streaming all the talks from the main hall into Second Life. From NPG’s Elucian Islands in Second Life, you can watch, ask questions of the speakers and chat with other attendees from your own home. All you need is a computer and Internet connection. The registration fee is 10 GBP.
Details on how to register will be posted here and to our website soon.
Arfon Smith, Savita Custead, Mike Peel
How can citizens be involved in doing and communicating science? We’ll take a look at practical examples from Galaxy Zoo, BioBlitz Bristol, and Wikipedia and discuss the obstacles and potential.
Lee-Ann Coleman, Katharine Barnes, Enrico Balli
Is the traditional paper format derived from the printed paper still appropriate today? How can new kinds of content such as audio, video, 3D structures, etc. be integrated into a research paper? Can a scientific paper contain just datasets or descriptions of a method? And how does free access to a paper change the way we use the information contained in a paper?
Petra Boynton, David Allen Green (“Jack of Kent”)
Science blogging exists within a ethical and legal framework. This session, presented by two prominent bloggers, will chart the legal and ethical boundaries of blogging and what you can – and cannot – blog about.
Topics to be covered include professional obligations, confidentiality and privacy, and libel and copyright. The session will also address your personal wellbeing in the face of any potential complaints and legal threats, and also how to engage with blog comments in a professional manner.
Cameron Neylon, Chris Thorpe, Ian Mulvany
Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web that will be released later this year. For this session we plan a live demo of the prerelease version of Google Wave to show off the potential for scientists.
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