Goal
During 3 days, developers and analysts will gather in a room to develop a new community Webtool: a web platform that integrates all documentation, knowledge related to Open and Commercial BioImage Analysis Softwares and interrelates them in a way which will be comprehensive and accessible to the community.
The participants will concentrate on tagging pages, back linking literatures and adding documentation to each page.
The original web-platform is being developed and prepared (see below).
See the motivations and details for this webtool here.
Participants
Seats are very limited due (only!) to the size of the room,
participants ("Taggers") are therefore being invited by Euro-BioImaging to take part in the Taggathon.
Ideally, most of Open Software packages will be represented by one developer, e.g. ImageJ, Fiji, ICY, OMERO (OME), KNIME, CellProfiler, BioImageXD, etc...
Additionally, about 10 analysts from Imaging Facilities will participate to the event. They will help bridging developers and users and their broad experience of the bioimage analysis tools will be a precious input.
The list of participants is not closed yet, if you are interested in participating to the event, please express your interest to eubias2013(at)gmail(dot)com
Under discussion is the possibility to broadcast/Tweet the event.
Agenda
The Taggathon will happen on days 9, 10 and 11th of October in a room of the Barcelona Science Park.
Participants will be expected to attend the Community meeting in order to collect and centralize the recommendations of the community for the construction of the Webtool, which will be discussed on day 2 of the meeting.
The event
Preparation for the Taggathon
Each participant chooses one software package to work on and to have some feeling of responsibility. Though each participant is then assigned to that package, one could also tag other package functions and it is largely welcome.
Tags can be freely created by each participant.
One could also test various packages with similar functions and add comments on differences, merits and demerits in the function specific page. Such description may cause some conflict between the commenter and the developer, but this should be resolved peacefully among them by discussion.
If possible, taggers will add back links to related pages (e.g. articles that used the function or reference to a scientific article on the underlying algorithm).
Those who attended the Taggathon will have right to edit the webtool after the Taggathon.
The Taggathon 2013 is thought as a novel, proof-of-concept initiative to improve BioImage Software accessibility and is expected to grow further and include more references to other software packages, libraries, etc... in the future.