Abstract Management is the process of accepting and preparing the abstracts for presentation at a scientific conference. The process consists of either invited or presented submissions of the abstract or summary of the work. The summary usually states the hypothesis, tools used in the research or investigation collected data, and a summary or interpretation of the data.
The abstracts usually submit peer review after which they are accepted or rejected by the conference chair or committee and then allocated to conference meetings. The abstracts can be presented as an oral lecture or as a poster illustrated during the event. Abstracts will often be published before or after the event as a conference paper or in specialist magazines or on the Internet. In some cases, the submission of a solid paper may be required before final acceptance is given. In some areas, most mainstream conferences and workshops provide for the filing of the original papers and scientific peer review peer review the full paper to a comparable standard sheet of before accepting a paper for presentation at the conference and posting it in an edited procedure Series.
The abstract management process is closely tied to the need to offer continuing education for professionals, especially Continuing Medical Education or CME. Many annual meetings of specialist hosts provide educational hours credit so that visitors can keep current in the field and maintain their professional certifications.
Abstract management software
Historically, Abstract Management was a time-consuming manual process of dealing with large amounts of paper required and generated a significant administrative burden. A growing number of organizations now use web-based abstract management software to optimize and automate the process. The work is sometimes outsourced to special conference departments at major publishers and professional conference organizers.
Functionality
Software functionality is in the environment of typical conference workflows. These differ in detail, but on the whole, they must include a submission phase, the review, the decision-making of the program committee, the construction of the conference program and the publication of the program and the abstracts or papers.
Abstract template involves the authors in the creation of their abstracts and the organizers of the conference sends them via an online form, and is a relatively simple process. The abstracts are either as documentation or if graphics and tables are not required, which can be uploaded, they can simply be entered in the form as plain text. The software sends an e-mail confirmation. According to the decisions of the committee on which abstracts for the conference the submission software can also be used to collect original work and Powerpoint presentations are accepted.
Online verification can be more complex than the process is often "blind" or anonymous. Reviewers will have special interests or specializations that should be taken into account when assigning abstracts to them, and they may have conflict of interest. Reviews must be independent, i.e. reviewers should not be able to read further reviews before they have made their own statements. Abstract management software must provide for these options.
The Program Committee will require extensive reporting and access to the summaries and evaluations. Software will generally support ranking of ratings and adjust a presumption threshold. Some software products provide more functionality for the conference organizers. This often includes an e-mail attachment to report comments and committee decisions authoring program tools and online publishing.
Participant registration is usually provided separately from abstract management.