Meetings/20080627/SpiderMeeting
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The SPIDER (Semantic Publishing for Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research) Project
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Project outline
The SPIDER (Semantic Publishing for Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research) Project aims to bring together biological, veterinary and computer science research groups, innovative IT companies, and leading STM (scientific, technical and medical) publishers and other stakeholders in the scientific publishing world including CrossRef and UK PubMed Central, with a view of forming a partnership to undertake R&D leading to enhanced publication and linking of journal articles and associated data relating to infectious disease epidemiology by the use of ICT, and to obtain funding for this project from the soon-to-be-launched EPSRC Digital Economy programme.
Creating a cohesive partnership of the right balance for a multidisciplinary project such as this requires a shared vision and a willingness to work together harmoniously to achieve it. Partners should come prepared to discuss what contributions they might be able to make in terms of knowledge, resources, data, research effort, project management, or other facilities or expertise. At this early stage nothing is binding, but such input will be most helpful in judging the potential strength of the SPIDER partnership.
Since commercial interests are potentially involved, it is important to state at the outset that the work we propose to undertake is to be regarded as pre-competitive research, that individuals perhaps lack the capacity to undertake individually, that will involve the open publication of our joint findings. Measures will nevertheless be taken to provide all partners with a suitable consortium agreement to protect their IPR during the project and to provide generous terms under which they can subsequently use their developments or license those of other SPIDER Project partners to build value-added services.
One of the most crucial elements for success of applications to the EPSRC’s Digital Economy programme will be whether the referees see clear evidence that the project will “strengthen UK plc”. Please bring your views on how a project that aims to enhance our knowledge of and ability to combat infectious diseases will have a positive impact on the UK economy – it is clear that lack of these things could have a significant negative impact, but EPSRC will need reassuring that funding this project will be worthwhile even if feared epidemics do not reach these shores.
Launch meeting
The first project planning meeting to be held at Wolfson College, Oxford, from 10 am SHARP to 4 pm on Friday June 27th. Coffee and introductions from 9:30. At that meeting we will share ideas and try to hammer out the composition of the partnership that will submit the EPSRC application, and the respective contributions and responsibilities of the individual partners.
Meeting Agenda
I invite those named on the agenda to present brief (15 minute) talks about their activities and how they relate to the SPIDER Project objectives, either with or without PowerPoint slides.
| 09:30 | Coffee | ||
| 10:00 | David Shotton | Welcome, introductions, SPIDER Project vision, agenda | |
| 10:20 | Angela McLean | Epidemiology researchers and data publication | |
| 10:40 | David Rogers | Remote sensing geospatial data and disease | |
| 11:00 | Coffee | ||
| 11:20 | Ian Horrocks | How can computer science contribute to research publishing? | |
| 11:40 | Siegfried Handschuh | DERI and semantic publishing | |
| 12:00 | Katie Portwin, Alistair Miles, Jun Zhao | The IBRG semantic publishing vision | |
| 12:45 | David Shotton | Other potential partners | |
| 13:50 | Lunch | ||
| 13:50 | Richard O’Beirne | The challenge of the Web for publishers | |
| 14:10 | Ed Pentz | CrossRef, citations and information linking | |
| 14:30 | Paul Davey | Enriching UK Pubmed Central holdings | |
| 14:50 | Robert Kiley | Supporting semantic publishing | |
| 15:10 | David Shotton | The EPSRC Digital Economy funding opportunity | |
| General discussion | |||
| 15:40 | Conclusions and future actions | ||
| 16:00 | Close of meeting and tea |
Joining instructions
Wolfson College is in Linton Road, Oxford (http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/, map http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/physical/). There is free car parking. Travel from Oxford Station should be by taxi. We meet in the Buttery, and the meeting will end at 4 pm prompt.
