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What is the BLAH hackathon and symposium?

• • Before the hackathon, literature annotation resources will be collected and "linked" to each other.

  • During the hackathon, we will spend 4 days together to explore novel uses of the linked annotations.

  • After the hackathon, the results will be presented and future directions will be discussed.

What is the goal?

• To establish an open infrastructure to integrate various efforts of literature annotation, from annotated corpora to tools for manual and automatic annotation.

• To collect various annotations and align them to up-to-date, original texts of PubMed and PMC articles.

• To seek innovative applications through utilizing the richness and variety of linked annotations.

How can you contribute?

• 1. Submit extended abstracts for collaboration and data integration (see call for contributions for details)

1. Attend Hackathon for collaborating together to develop the proposed ideas

   • Online collaboration before the hackathon is required to make the hackathon efficient.

2. Attend Symposium for discussion on hachathon results and future directions

   • Oral and poster presentations

   • Keynote speech

   • Panel discussion

How will the results be published?

• Selected extended abstracts will be presented at the symposium, and published in BMC proceedings.

• All the participants will co-author one or two joint journal paper(s).

• A journal special issue is also planned for more detailed results description from this event.

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