Jun 23,2020.

Generation-R published an article on openVirus – Knowledge in the Hands of Citizens explaining and making people aware about the new project.

LINK : https://genr.eu/wp/openvirus-knowledge-in-the-hands-of-citizens/

Aug 12,2020.

The group live streamed weekly online Lab Meetings on the INYAS You Tube Channel.

LINK : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiTngk-POm8

Sep 7,2020.

The video clip entitled "Knowledge Extraction From Literature" was uploaded to youtube and has been fully designed, edited and scripted by the young undergraduate and graduate Interns of the INYAS-KARYA Program, mentored by trainees on the Indian Science Acadmies' SRFP and FAST-SF Programs, all working remotely, yet together! Special Thanks to Simranleen Singh(intern) who made this beautiful videoclip.

LINK : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXmqMMGiZUw

Sep 11,2020.

The coar forum showcased several collaborative initiatives from around the world aiming to improve the discovery of and access to COVID-19 research outputs. This was presented by Dr. Ambreen Hamadani, Dr. Peter Murray Rust and Dr. Gitanjali Yadav.

LINK : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaAlt-ukknI

Sep 21 - Sep 23, 2020

openVirus participated in a 3-day virtual Hackathon Event run by Babraham Bioinformatics. At the end of the event, Dr. Ambreen Hamadani presented the Machine Learning work we did during the Hackathon(recording can be found here). We engaged with lots of new people throughout the hackathon, and some of them have now joined the team!

We also made a video recording as a part of the Hackathon. The link to the video can be found, here.

Oct. 7th 2020

Barcamp was a one-day event in which Dr. Peter Murray-Rust, Shweata Hegde, Dr. Ambreen Hamadani, and Simon Worthington jointly gave a 15-minute presentation on Open Notebook Science, OpenVirus and Open Climate Knowledge. Slides for the presentation can be found, here. Throughout the day, we held various sessions on the crisis of science, demonstrating our tools, machine learning using Jupyter Notebook, and so on.

Update(2020-12-19): Barcamp organizers recently published a blog post titled "Barcamp@GeNeMe'2020" curating all our experiences in organizing sessions. You can read the article, here(https://www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/2020/12/barcampgeneme2020-open-science-in-times-of-crisis/)

openVirus and Scholia Interfaces

Oct. 28th 2020

The whole openVirus team, along with Dr Peter Murray-Rust, Arianna Becerril García (from Redaylyc), Dasapta Erwin Irawan (Indonesian Pre-Print Server) and Daniel Mietchen(Scholia) presented at Wikicite. We had presenters speaking in different languages like Hindi, Spanish (in the spirit of multilingualism). Our discussion of an hour and 40 min included:

• Our History with Wikimedia
• Community Building, Overview of openVirus and multilingualism
• Showcasing our progress and results using Jupyter Notebook
• Redalyc and Open Access (Arianna)
• Indonesian Pre-Print Server (Dasapta)
• Scholia and other Wikimedia tools (Daniel)
• Several Demonstrations on how we use Wikidata, running a search on Spanish corpus, and so on.
• Q&A (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/OpenVirus_WikiCite_Conference)

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kQnT5Yra1U

A writeup of the above to look at engaging communities, especially Open Energy Modelling Community and interests in Climate and rapid decarbonisation.

About: Five minute paper search, citizen science, and guides

• YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/Vo_RBNBWmQ4?t=496 8:15 - 1:02:20
• Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/petermurrayrust/open-science-principles-and-practice
• Abstract: https://github.com/petermr/CEVOpen/wiki/Outreach:-Open-Science-Values-and-Practice#submitted-abstract

(Also embedded in PMR's presentation)

• YouTube Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlXEGyP8bks
• Slides: https://github.com/petermr/CEVOpen/tree/master/INYAS_presentation_2021

Ayush Garg and Shweata Hegde talk about their experiences at CEVOpen and promote open source and open science.