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Springer Nature Hack Day – Berlin

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On 26-27 April 2018, Francesco Osborne and I attended the third edition of the Springer Nature Hack Day, which was held in its headquarter in Berlin.

The Springer Nature Hack Day is an event that allows researchers, developers, tech companies, and Springer Nature itself, to gather together and tackle current research issues. Offering also opportunities for potential collaborations and networking.

This was my second time attending a hack day organised by Springer Nature. Indeed, with my colleagues Andrea Mannocci and Thiviyan Thanapalasingam, we attended the previous edition, back in November 2017, working on a Venue-centric trends project (read full story here). An extended version of this project has then been presented at the SAVE-SD workshop co-located with The Web Conference 2018 [1].

 

In this edition, the participants pitched six different ideas and projects, centred around “analytics and metrics to measure the impact of science”, such as: Disease Dashboard, Hot Topics (our project), Keyword Recommendation, Data mining for historians, Search-Assist, and Semantic Entity Marker. More information about the whole event can be found in this Springer Nature blog post.

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SpringerNature Hackday – London

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On the 29th November 2017, myself with two KMi colleagues (Andrea Mannocci and Thiviyan Thanapalasingam) attended the second edition of SpringerNature HackDay in London (@ SpringerNature Campus).

Aliaksandr Birukou, Executive Editor of Computer Science at Springer Nature and collaborator of our research team at the Knowledge Media Institute, also joined our group on the HackDay.

The whole event aimed at joining together the skills and interests of many developers and researchers with SciGraph, for advancing discovery.

The main web page for the event is here: https://github.com/SN-HackDay/Advancing-discovery-with-research-data (or here in case someone removes it).

As a team, we worked on Venue-centric trends problem. In particular, our projects provides to editors, conference organizers and many others, a dashboard to understand how knowledge flows across countries and continents, who are the main producers and consumers of the research output for a given conference, whether the conference is open to interdisciplinarity, and many other questions.

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