Opening Reception – Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, on the Harvard University Campus

• Welcome—Alyssa Goodman, Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University and Research Associate, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

• Opening Remarks—Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research

• Recent Efforts in Advancing Scholarly Communication—Phil Bourne, Professor of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego

• Closing Comments—Alyssa Goodman

Light breakfast – Microsoft Research New England, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142; (857) 453-6000

Invited Demonstrations Session I (10 minutes per demonstrator)

Moderator: Mary Lee Kennedy, Senior Associate Provost for the Library, Harvard University

Platforms: Project collaboration software, “smart” laboratory software, and provenance systems
Co-Facilitators: Jill Mesirov, Associate Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Dave DeRoure, Professor of e-Research, Oxford e-Research Centre

• David de Roure, Professor of e-Research, Oxford e-Research Centre (Demo of myExperiment) | video
• Tim Clark, Director of Bioinformatics, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Harvard Medical School (Demo of SWAN) | video
• Rafael Sidi, Vice President, Product Management, Elsevier (Demo of SciVerse) | video

Media: Production, distribution, archiving (for example, video, 3-D modeling, and databases)
Facilitator: Curtis Wong, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

• Phil Bourne, Professor of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego (Demos of SciVee and BioLit) | video
• Moshe Pritsker, CEO, Editor-in-Chief, Co-founder, Journal of Visualized Experiments (Demo of JoVE) | video

• Chris Lintott, Director of Citizen Science at the Adler Planetarium (Demo of Zooniverse) | video

• Taliesin Beynon, Research Programmer Wolfram|Alpha (Demo of the Computable Document Format—CDF) | video

Literature: Publications based on text and still images (creation, reviewing, dissemination, archiving, and reproducibility)
Facilitator: Phil Campbell, Editor–in-Chief, Nature

• Kaitlin Thaney, Manager of External Partnerships, Digital Science (Demos of Digital Science Products)
• Alex Wade, Director or Scholarly Communication, Microsoft Research (Demos of Chemistry Add-in for Word and Article Authoring Add-In | video
• Charles Parnot, Member, Team Mekentosj (Demo of Papers for iPad) | video

Invited Demonstrations Session II (10 minutes per demonstrator)

Moderator: Alberto Pepe, Postdoctoral Associate, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
 

Review: Standard publication-based systems, alternative rating systems, etc.

Facilitator: Amy Brand, Assistant Provost for Faculty Appointments & Special Advisor, Office for Scholarly Communication, Harvard University

• Peter Binfield, Publisher, Public Library of Science (Demo of Article Level Metrics) | video
• Sarah Greene, Editor-in-Chief, Faculty of 1000 (Demo of F1000) | video
• Jason Priem, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Demo of Total-Impact) | video

Resources: Seamless technologies for literature and data (literature/data search engines; cloud-based, group sharing, adjustable permissions, and integration with search)

Facilitator: Phil Bourne, Professor of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego

• Alberto Accomazzi, Project Manager, NASA Astrophysics Data System, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Demo of ADS and ADS Labs) | video
• Mercé Crosas, Director of Product Development, IQSS, Harvard University (Demo of Dataverse) | video
• Ashfaq Munshi, Founder and CEO, Terabitz (Demo of Terabitz) | video

Recognition: How can we best enable cooperation and adoption?
Facilitator: Cameron Neylon, Senior Scientist, Science and Technology Facilities Council

• Jevin West, University of Washington (Demo of Eigenfactor) | video
• Jessica Mezei, Mendeley Community Liaison (Demo of Mendeley) | video
• Lee Dirks, Director of Education and Scholarly Communication, Microsoft Research Connections (Demo of Microsoft Academic Search) | video

Breakout Sessions I

For each of the six Demonstration Session topics listed in orange above, a focus group of approximately 10 people will work together to ultimately create a short (approximately two-page) “statement” addressing (at least) the issues listed below. Facilitators from the demo sessions will moderate each discussion and may designate a chief scribe for the tumblr pages created to host each group’s deliberations and statements. Hyperlinks with the statements, pointing to more details, are allowed and encouraged.

 

Issues to be addressed in the “statements” include:

• Essential elements of presently successful systems
• Failure modes of experiments that looked good but didn’t succeed
• Most promising technologies for the future
• Key unsolved problems, which might be addressed in the coming five years
• Inter-dependencies with other topics

Breakout Sessions II: Continued group discussion

Light breakfast – Microsoft Research New England

9:30–11:00

Breakout Sessions III: Finalize reports (via tumblr site)

Synthesis of Ideas and Recommendations (working lunch): Distribution and review of group reports and recommendations, including cross-group consultation