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# Invitation to GeNeMe Barcamp Oct 7

We have been asked to provide an introduction to GeNeMe Barcamp. This page is to collect our thoughts for the initial 15-minute presentation,

Invitation

Dear barcamp participants, Thanks for registering to the Barcamp Open Science@Geneme 2020! We are very excited to welcome you and the other open science enthusiasts next week in Dresden (just virtually) to our barcamp on the topic “Open Science: From the crisis of science to science for times of crisis”. Here are some information to get you started. Barcamp Program and Session Proposals

The barcamp will open 9:30 am to give you time for a tech-check. The barcamp starts Wednesday, October 7, 2020, 10:00 am (CEST) with a welcome session and an ignition talk by Simon Worthington and Peter-Murray Rust on their initiatives Open Climate Knowledge and OpenVirus. For more details on the program structure please visit our website: https://www.barcamp-open-science.eu/oscigeneme/

Barcamps a bottom-up conferences, so the program for the barcamp is driven by your interests and ideas! So please start making session proposals! If you have an idea for a session or would like to add a topic to someone elses proposed session use the Etherpad we created for the barcamp [REDACTED] Session planning for the barcamp will be held in a democratic and open process Wednesday morning, in which we plan the program for the day together.

### Online Platform MS Teams

The barcamp will take place on the platform MS Teams. On Monday, October 5, you will receive an email from the organizing team with your personal login details for MS Teams so you can log onto the barcamp platform. Please follow the procedure described in the email. If you have troubles with logging in or don’t receive your login, please let us know. All participants of the Barcamp have free access to the conference “GeNeMe – Communities in New Media” that is held from 7-9 October, 2020 as hybrid conference in Dresden and online simultaneously.

We are looking forward to meeting you soon and are excited about your ideas and proposals! More information will follow in the coming days. Cheers and Greetings from Dresden on behalf of the organizing team, Sabine Barthold Organizing Committee Barcamp Open Science@Geneme

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## Current thoughts (2020-10-04)

Here's my proposal for the 15-minute slot. We'll tell it as a story . Times will be strict with minimal introductions (as we'll be around all day)

### @Peter Murray-Rust> 3 mins Why (true) Open Science is critical for addressing the crises. Stress full Openness (OpenNotebookScience), inclusivity of age, race, geography, social position. Community involved at all points. Value of data : aggregation , prediction. Barcamp activities for the day can include: data analysis, prediction, demonstrations, community building, outreach, advocacy.

Scientific literature predicted Ebola/Liberia

xxx

Examples demonstration:

Crisis of science

Topics from openVirus members

  • publication
  • poor standing of science
  • Lack of access to open information. Lack of funding and lack of technical support Lack of Platform to present the project and if two people are working on the same project coincidentally, only one person gets recognition!
  • Lack of science communication efforts from the community.
  • the transformation of society and the role of sciences in it
  • challenges from pseudosciences and trivialisation of less known research from policy makers Chief scientists of the group often sabotage work the younger researchers. Publication ethics are hardly followed. The hardest worker in the group sometimes doesn't even find his/her name in the publication. 10:13 In developing countries many people pursue higher education because there are no jobs and not because they love research

Times of Crisis

  • democracy
  • viral epidemics
  • job security - future of work
  • discrimination / inequality/inequity

@Shweata Hegde and @Ambreen H: 9 mins.

Open Virus what it is, community, how we work, tools and data, maybe including Flash demos.

Simon> 3 minutes.

translating openVirus tools, philosophy and practice to climate. Open Climate Knowledge.

Open Climate Knowledge

Motivation and application: Democratising science by putting it in people’s hands and a need to up the game of researchers to produce reproducible research and Open Science systems.

All day

drop-in workshop for content-mining literature related to crises. Suggest topics in the Etherpad. We'll try 30-minute slots. It may be useful to revisit the question later in the day.

  • Bring along a question that might be answered by Open scientific literature
  • create a Jupyter notebook
  • construct Wikidata dictionaries to deal with the crisis
  • download a minicorpus from EuropePMC
  • search it with dictionaries. for any coders. write scripts to further analyse the extracted data (plots, timelines, ...)

@SH's ideas, thoughts(Rough Draft) 4th Oct.

Early on in the pandemic, we realized that there is no simple way for citizens to find scientific information on viral epidemics from the distributed scientific literature. We aim to extract knowledge from the open scientific literature on viral epidemics using the tool kits developed.

openVirus grew at the India-UK interface. Initially started by Dr Peter Murray Rust and Dr Gita Yadav, our team consists of young scientists from diverse backgrounds, some of them without any high-end workstations. Even with just mobile phones, they have been able to do science! That is the power of technology. What started with just 2 interns has now expanded to 15 of them, and we welcome more people to join us!

Our team is sub-divided into 8 mini-projects, each of them asking a with particular questions and finding answers for it from the literature. Anybody who has a particular question in their mind that they would like to get an answer from the literature, can use our tools and make inferences in just minutes. We will explore this more during the course of the day. We have a session dedicated to that.

(Schematic workflow of our project. Explain that in brief. Dictionaries, EUPMC, ami)

This can be extended to any other questions that you’ve got, not just epidemics. Multilinguality is an essential component of our work system. This ensures the empowerment of the global south and other underrepresented parts of the world.

The amazing part of our project is that we do all of our work in the open. Everything is available on our GitHub page, even our progress reports too! We have even live-streamed our lab meetings online. All of this is exciting. And this is just the beginning!

We believe in knowledge justice. Knowledge is nobody’s monopoly. This is especially relevant to the current time of crisis.

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