Flash Forward Workshop

Scientific Publications and Global Challenges

We are hosting a Flash Forward Workshop (https://ffwd.flashgrants.org/calendar.html). It is going to be a hands-on session for people to try out our software and give us feedback. We are also going to discuss briefly about our current projects, its motives, and so on. more info will be added

When?

25th Feb. 2021

Time: 12 GMT/ 17:30 IST

Timetable

PMR (Introduction) 5 min

• global challenges (1 min) . Epidemics, climate
• scientific publication (scale 2 million/year)

Ambreen & Shweata - 10 min (Overview of the project)

Shweata:

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Ambreen: (5-6 min)

**Why I love being a part of OpenVirus **

• how it can harness the power of Science to build a better world.
• how it connects young minds, the world over, for a vibrant inflow of ideas
• how it employs open-source technology for building tools that are much needed.

Please suggest:

• Should I add a demo of our Machine Learning endeavors?
• Jupyter Notebook or Powerpoint?

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Ayush - 5 min (pygetpapers)

Dheeraj(multilingual dictionaries) 5 min

CEVOpen Interns - 2*4=8 min (2 min. an overview of their mini-projects)

Feedback and discussion - 30 min

Resources

• Etherpad. we will use https://pad.riseup.net/
• getpapers (classic)
• pygetpapers
• pyamisearch
• test corpus (e.g. 100 papers)

Hands-on

• manual search EPMC
• manual search T+F to show paywalls
• pygetpapers (maybe previously installed)
• wikidata search
• pyamisearch

Discussion issues

• issues with access to science articles
• value of scientific articles and global issues
• barriers
  • Global North
  • academia