For those who are interested in OpenSciNY but can’t attend…
Science faculty, students, and librarians are welcome to view and participate in the virtual component of OpenSciNY this Friday, May 14, from 10am-6pm Eastern. OpenSciNY is a one-day conference hosted by New York University’s Bobst Library to encourage discussion about the impact of publicly accessible scientific tools & resources, open access publishing in the sciences, and open data/notebook efforts.
The speaker presentations will be streamed live at:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/opensciny
Virtual participation is encouraged through chat there, or through the conference’s FriendFeed room (requires free registration):
http://friendfeed.com/opensciny
The schedule will be (roughly):
10:15-11:15 Open Science in Practice (David W. Hogg, NYU)
11:15-12:15 Open Access Publishing in Science (Heather Joseph, SPARC)
12:15-1:15 Open Science and Libraries (Elizabeth Brown, SUNY-Binghamton)
Then a break for lunch, followed by
2:15-3:15 Open Notebook Science (Jean-Claude Bradley, Drexel University)
3:15-4:15 ChemSpider – Building a Crowdsourced Chemical Database for the Chemistry Community (Antony Williams, RSC/ChemSpider)
These presentations will be followed by roundtable discussion sessions. Virtual participants will be able to converse on similar topics via delegated “roundtable” threads within the FriendFeed room.
There has also been interest in realtime collaborative blogging the event. If you would like to participate, you can leave your (public) email/info at:
http://opensciny.piratenpad.de/Overview
Hope you can join us!