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The 3rd International Biowiki contest
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Objective
Wiki is a web technology designed to allow multiple authors to freely add and edit website contents. Wiki is thus well suited for developing collaborative online knowledge bases, whose best known example is Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org). The objective of this contest is to adopt the wiki paradigm towards collaborative development of biological knowledge bases that anyone can contribute.
In this contest, each participant will develop a wiki-based web site that will serve as a useful knowledge source for a biological subject of his/her choice. Web sites created from previous contests are shown at http://biowiki.net/index.php/Biowiki_Site_List as examples.
Schedule
- Registration: 2007/07/21 - 2007/08/20
- Final Result Due: 2007/08/26
- Award Notification: After 2007/08/31
How to register
Obtain the registration form (fillable PDF) from the contest website and send the completed form to swhwang@kribb.re.kr
Venue
The contest will be announced on 2007/07/21 at the 3rd ISCB Student Council Symposium. Evaluation will be done by a panel of international experts during the 6th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2007), and its result will be announced on 2007/08/31. All other contest activities (registration, submission, and award notification) take place in the internet.
Awards
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The following prizes will be awarded:
- 1st place (1 team): $500 USD
- 2nd place (1 team): $300 USD
- 3rd place (3 teams): $200 USD per team
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Prizes will be paid through wire transfer.
Evaluation
- Each web site will be evaluated on the following criteria:
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Goal-orientedness: It needs to serve as a useful biological knowledge base.
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Contents: It needs to present an ample amount of high quality information.
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Organization and Style: It needs to be well organized and stylish so that other users can easily find information that they need, want to contribute to the site, and can easily figure out how to contribute.
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The evaluation will be done on-site at the 6th International Conference on Bioinformatics (INCOB 2007) by a panel of experts from eight countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The evaluation result will be announced on-line.
Biowiki contest FAQ(Frequently asked questions)
Sponsor
This contest is organized by APBioNet (Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network) and KOBIC (Korean Bioinformation Center, http://www.kobic.re.kr). KOBIC provides funds and computing infrastructure for this contest.
Copyright
- Copyrighted contents should not be used without the permission of the owners. Once put in the contest, all the contents will lose copyrights. Participants should not copy and paste copyrighted text contents from other web sites without the removal of copyrights.
- All the images and other non-text materials are under the same principle as text.
- All the contents created and uploaded by participants will be openfreely shared under BioLicense (http://biolicense.org/).
Contact
Seungwoo Hwang, Ph.D. swhwang@kribb.re.kr
