[OWW-SC] BioSysBio abstract submission to OpenWetWare

[John Cumbers]

Dear steering committee,

I had brought up at a past meeting about the possibly of using openwetware
for abstract submissions to the BioSysBio conference (www.biosysbio.com).  I
started a discussion here <http://openwetware.org/wiki/Talk:BioSysBio>, a
proposal here <http://openwetware.org/wiki/BioSysBio>and just set up a draft
page and abstract here <http://openwetware.org/wiki/BioSysBio:abstracts>I
wanted to confirm that people are happy with the plan and that we can go
ahead with accepting abstracts.  I've outlined the plan below and the
advantages and disadvantages that came out of the discussion.

Please let me have any comments or post them to the wiki.
cheers,
John


Outline (from mails between conference organising committee)
So we have decided that the Wiki option on OpenWetWare.org would be best for
submitting abstracts.  We decided not to do an open review of abstracts
on-line, but allow people to comment.  People will get assigned a page to
publish their abstract on, take a look how it might work here:
http://openwetware.org/wiki/BioSysBio:abstracts


Advantages:
*This is much easier to organise the submission and review if the abstracts
are open
*First page should be space limited, but an infinite number of pages could
be linked to for follow up information.
*Public abstracts should increase the quality of those submitted
*Forming an on-line community before the conference
*Allow others to comment/discuss the abstracts
*Novel form of on-line publishing

 Disadvantages:
*Will people want to submit an abstract to the world 4 months before the
conference?  (normally it would remain private until the conference)
*vandalism of others abstracts (I think unlikely)
*people have to learn how to use the wiki (or could just post a jpg of a
word document of they really can't do it)
*we have to delete any abstracts that are not selected from the site.





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John Cumbers,  Graduate Student in Computational Biology
Brown University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Box G-W
80 Waterman Street, Providence, Rhode Island, 02912, USA
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