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Live Coverage of Scientific Conferences Using Web Technologies

2010; Public Library of Science; Volume: 6; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000563

1553-7358

Allyson Lister, Ruchira S. Datta, Oliver Hofmann, Roland Krause, Michael Kuhn, Bettina Roth, Reinhard Schneider,

Conferences and Exhibitions Management

A number of platforms are potentially suitable for live coverage of conferences.The most common ones are compared in Supplementary Table S1, and include dedicated services such as CoverItLive (http://www.coveritlive.com/)or ScribbleLive (http://www.scribblelive.com) as well as other more general platforms such as wikis, blogs, Twitter (http://www.twitter.com),FriendFeed (http://www.friendfeed.com)or the upcoming Google Wave (http://wave.google.com).Blogs have been used for a long time to report and reflect on conference talks.Blog posts usually have only one author and are posted after the talk.In contrast, recently emerging services such as Twitter and FriendFeed provide the opportunity for instant coverage of the conference from many angles, broadcast to a world-wide audience.S1.Overview of technical solutions for live blogging. Supplementary Table