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Practical Hacking On Identifiers at BiOSphere2

This wiki contains planning documents for the workshops, and can be used for recording notes during the workshop. See the menu of pages on the right.

This workshop has three primary objectives:

1. Document the current status of identifier technologies across scientific disciplines.
2. Identify pressing needs in identifier technologies and services.
3. Articulate solutions in identifier technologies and services.

We want people working with identifier to step out of their usual sphere and think about next generation problems, not only those problems they have at hand. Therefore, we propose a workshop in which people will be asked to not only state problems and articulate solution, but will be asked imagine those problems for double or triple the amount of data they currently have, and for related data in some other domain. This workshop should be a venue to pose questions related to future possibilities and more open science.

Expected Outcomes

1. Map of the current identifier technology landscape, focusing on how pieces that are currently disconnected might work together. This should be a map both literally (in the form of a figure) and figuratively (in text).
   

2. List of the most pressing research questions and practical challenges in identifier technology.
   

3. Output of breakout groups. During days 2 and 3, 5-10 breakout groups will work to solve a selected set of challenges identified by the whole group on day 1. Each breakout group will be tasked with delivering a tangible (but not polished) product by the middle of day 3. Breakout groups will determine for themselves what that product should be, but we will encourage a range of outputs including educational materials, technical implementations, and draft proposals.
   

4. Review paper detailing outcomes 1-2, and 3 if appropriate.
   

5. Meeting report to NSF-BIO detailing how the outcomes of the meeting benefit their research communities and others.