[BiO BB] [Announcement]The 2nd International BioWiki Contest

[Seungwoo Hwang]

The 2nd International BioWiki Contest

[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 from the contest website and send the
completed form to swhwang at kribb.re.kr

[Venue]
This is an online contest. All contest activities (registration,
submission, and award notification) take place in the internet.

In addition to the online processes, a presentation and an announcement
of the event will also be given during the 3rd ISCB Student Council
Symposium at Vienna, Austria on 2007/07/21. Evaluation will also be
done during the 6th International Conference on Bioinformatics (INCOB
2007) at Hong Kong on 2007/08/31.

[Awards]
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
Prizes will be paid through wire transfer.

[Evaluation]
Each web site will be evaluated on the following criteria:
- Goal-orientedness: It should serve as a useful biological knowledge
base.
- Contents: It should contain high quality contents.
- Expandability: It should be well organized so that other users can
easily figure out how to contribute.

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.

[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]
Jong Bhak, Ph.D. jong at kribb.re.kr
Seungwoo Hwang, Ph.D. swhwang at kribb.re.kr

[Contest URL]
http://biowiki.net/index.php/Current_Contests 


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