Scifoo attendees enjoyed Google Cuisine

It seems that Scifoo adopted Chatten House rules for this by-invite only event organized by Nature, O'Reilly and Google. Use Scifoo tag at Connotea to follow the postings. via phylogenomics

Also here is a brief report . Interesting topics include scientific tools, collaborative research, open science and a presentation by Linden Lab on SecondLife. by Nadalpoint

I was wondering which other publishers (without attendees names) were invited to this meeting to talk on these topics which are also crucial to STM publishing community.

Moving physical conferences, poster sessions to Second Life (at a low budget)

Jean Claude Bredley is continuing experimenting with new learning experience in Second Life.

Today he run a session on Open Notebook Science at SciFoo LivesOn which is a continuation of SciFoo. He also created a poster area in Chemistry and Biology under Chem/Bio Foo where he aims to create " a place to host domain-specific scientific discussion as perpetual poster sessions in Second Life." He also explains how this is related to scientific publishing:

"This is actually very much in keeping with the format of the Nature journal itself. The articles are typically high level and are collected from various scientific fields. I am starting with Chemistry and Biology because I feel that these areas have a strong potential for improving human lives directly (in terms of affecting disease processes for example). Also these areas are most closely related to my domain specific research of organic synthesis and drug design. (And we only have 36 booths in this area for now). Of course I would be happy to assist anyone in creating a poster area with another scientific focus.

I often tell people that they should only enter Second Life if they have a good reason for doing so. By putting posters that are similar in format and content to those that the typical researcher is likely to find at the physical conferences that they attend is probably a pretty good way to attract traditional scientists to media platforms like Second Life. If they see a poster that is interesting they can ring the bell, talk with the presenter then decide how that experience compares with a physical meeting." via Drexel Coas E-learning

Google, Nature and O'Reilly host 2nd Scifoo Camp

The second annual Sci Foo conference will be held in Googleplex on August 3-5. Again this is an invitation only conference and last year's was very well received by the attendants.
If you ask what's the agenda?
"There is no predefined agenda, instead attendees collaboratively create one during the first evening of the event, having shared ideas in advance through a wiki". via Nature

That's definetely a very valuable event and if you want to follow Scifoo check technorati; connotea, or lexical or bbgm

The question that I had last year is still valid: Are there any other publishers who were invited for the conference ( camp)?

Science Foo Camp

Here is what scientists were talking this past weekend at SciFoo.

"I'd like to discuss the range of applications being discussed in HE (HigherEd) that permit faculty and research groups to store and share a wide range of scholarly assets, including research data, texts (articles such as pre-prints and post-prints), images, and other media. These next generation academic apps provide support for tagging, community-of-use definitions, discovery, rights assertions via CC, and new models of peer review and commentary. Early designs typically implicate heavy use of atom or gdata for posting and retrieval, lucene, and ajax."

"I can describe our general approach for open collaborative biomedical research at The Synaptic Leap. "

"I could talk about insights gained as part of the NSF-funded Pathways research project (Cornell U, LANL) that looks at scholarly communication as a global workflow across heterogeneous repositories and tries to identify a lightweight interoperability framework to facilitate the emergence of a natively digital scholarly communication system. Think introspecting on the evolution of science by traversing a scholarly communication graph that jumps across repositories. I could also talk about work we have been doing with scholarly usage information: aggregating it across repositories, and using the aggregated data to generate recommendations and metrics."

"Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) for small labs with BIG data. It is embarrassing how many scientists use Excel as their database system – but even more embarrassing is how many use paper notebooks as their database. New science instruments (aka sensors) produce more data and more diverse data than will fit in a paper notebook, a table in a paper, or in Excel. How does "small science" work in this new world where it takes 3 super-programmers per ecologist to deploy some temperature and moisture sensors in a small ecosystem? We think we have an answer to this in the form of pre-canned LIMS applications."