1. SciCura Shared, General-purpose Curation Steven Vercruysse ' Ver - cruise' / Cruy Martin Kuiper A 'general purpose' curation platform, to make 'local curation' globally scalable

2. Local Curation

3. Harness the Curating Crowd Based on Baumgartner trends (2007) and PubMed statistics (2013) Published 200520072009201120132015201720192021 Structured 22 Million 'Small/mid-scale' curation (small in WORKFORCE and SCOPE) Transformative tech?

4. John eats Chicken with Fork 1. Spreadsheets: are inflexible 'Real' biological information 2. Formal Languages: are hard to learn FEW facts (experts only) HARD to explain to computer => Few details curated => Few papers curated The 'Curation Struggle' SHALLOW extraction Most information doesn't FIT

5. VSM (Visual Syntax Markup) Solution: stcruy A new curation method / user-interface that is ultra-flexible + easy-to-use

6. VSM Curation Interface

7. ... Information, boiled down to its essence. "Formulate it so you can use tridents". Flexible Easy to build complex sentences Easy to use VSM Curation Interface

8. 1. Trident 1'. Dident 2. List 3. Reference subjectrelationobject obj.list-rel. obj.... smth it... VSM: Just 3 ½ easy Building Blocks

9. VSM Templates - Pre-added components

10. VSM Templates - Pre-added components - Quick & accurate to fill in

11. VSM Templates - Pre-added components - Quick & accurate to fill in - Extensible with extra components

12. SciCura Open web-application for creating Structured Summaries of papers flexible easy => Any topic can be curated => Many people can curate VSM Publication Title X VSM enables web app SciCura enables

13. Publication Title X J. Smith, J. Hopkins SciCura Kari Nordmann | Home - Journal of Cell Biology. 2011; 179(1):601-17 Last edited by Astrid Armstrong | Approved by 3 people | Approve or Flag | Edit | See history VSM enables web app SciCura Social

14. abcxy …structured with VSM Publication X …in web-app SciCura Powerful, intuitive curation Summary so far A scalable hub for curation and sharing information. Unstructured facts Unmanageble text

15. Diversity & depth of knowledge Accuracy Text-mining Coverage Small-scale curation SciCura Positioning

16. Paper 31 Paper 32 - Direct benefit for curator Impact Query: by me & my group Output: Pathway Y View: Visual Plugin X - Output scripts, API, plugins - Interface for graph search - Text-mining co-development =

17. Prototype and First Use Case Selection of templates (early-stage templates) Multi-user, cooperative

18. Prototype

19. Prototype: input (Ask me for demo!) User Quote: “From a user's side, I don't think that complexity is difficult to handle at all. In fact, I'm excited about all the complexity we can now handle in such an elegant manner. It allows us to focus on the biology; no more need to worry about the entry format so much. It makes it so quick. It's so smooth. :D ” - Astrid L.

20. Prototype: output script + API

22. - 3000+ detailed statements (DbTF-TG + context; 6 ppl) - Designed for more use cases (in future) - Login by invite (to control edits) (-> ask a demo!) - Plan to put source code on GitHub (after tidy-up) (to enable community development) Prototype and First Use Case

23. And that's a short introduction to SciCura!

24. SciCura Shared, General-purpose Curation Steven Vercruysse Martin Kuiper A 'general purpose' curation platform, to make 'local curation' globally scalable steven@scicura.org martin@scicura.org