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NISO Altmetrics Project - San Francisco Meeting October 2013

First In-Person Meeting

NISO hosted the first of three free and open in-person meetings in support of this work on Wednesday, October 9, 2013 in San Francisco, CA. The objective of this gathering, as well as planned future meetings (see below), is to elicit and prioritize themes for greater discussion over the coming months. 

Event Sessions

Welcome

Speaker

8:30 am: Round the Room Introductions

Introduction

Speaker

8:45 am: Background and What We Hope to Achieve

Lightning Talks on Related Projects (5 min each)

Speakers

Gregg Gordon

President and CEO
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

Heather Piwowar 

Co-founder, Impactstory
Impactstory, Department of Biomedical Informatics

Carly Strasser

Data Curation Project Manager, UC Curation Center (UC3), California Digital Library
UC Curation Center (UC3), California Digital Library

9:15 am:

  • Euan Adie – Uptake of altmetrics in academic publishing environments 
  • Michael Habib – Expectations by researchers
  • Stefanie Haustein – Exploring disciplinary differences in the use of social media in scholarly communication
  • Gregg Gordon – Building trust into altmetrics
  • Heather Piwowar – Altmetrics for Alt-products: approaches and challenges
  • Carly Strasser – Altmetrics as part of the services of a large university library system
  • Cameron Neylon – Usage and article measures: Community principles

Speakers

Peter Brantley

Director, Online Strategy
University of California - Davis
  • Marcus Banks – Moving beyond the PDF: data sets and visualizations as equal partners
  • William Gunn – The provenance of altmetrics readership
  • Peter Brantley – Deriving altmetrics from annotation activity

Break

10:45 am

Brainstorming: Identification of Topics for Discussion

11:00 am: 

Participation of all attendees including virtual attendees. Exercise to include noting topics of interest from attendees and posting problems/issues/gaps/challenges/themes on post-it notes followed by collective grouping and prioritizing of themes. Initial themes will have surfaced in the open Google Doc shared with the group prior to the event.

Lunch

12:00 pm

Breakout of Discussion Groups

1:00 pm: 

The groups will have an open discussion of their selected topics and how it plays into a future ecosystem. Depending on the topic, this could include identification of related projects, potential solutions, ongoing pilot projects and gaps in community activity related to the theme. Each group will come up with 3-6 action items related to the topic for prioritization later.

Reporting Out of Discussion Groups & All-Attendee Discussion of Reports

2:00 pm:

Each group will report on its discussions, highlighting necessary actions, gaps or areas where more information is needed.

Wrap up, Meeting Adjourns

3:30 pm:

Document: Notes from Definitions Breakout Session

Document: Notes from Quality and Data Science Breakout Session

Document: Notes from Business and Use Cases Breakout Session

Document: Transcription of all Post-it Notes from Brainstorming Session

Casual Drinks Gathering

5:00 pm:

Bin 38 Restaurant & Wine Bar

Event Dates

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Location

Wednesday, October 9, 2013 
The Firehouse at Fort Mason Center
San Francisco, CA