College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, 1800 Christensen Drive, Ames, IA, 50011-1134, USA.
Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Syst Rev. 2018 Jan 9;7(1):3. doi: 10.1186/s13643-017-0667-4.
The second meeting of the International Collaboration for Automation of Systematic Reviews (ICASR) was held 3-4 October 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. ICASR is an interdisciplinary group whose aim is to maximize the use of technology for conducting rapid, accurate, and efficient systematic reviews of scientific evidence. Having automated tools for systematic review should enable more transparent and timely review, maximizing the potential for identifying and translating research findings to practical application. The meeting brought together multiple stakeholder groups including users of summarized research, methodologists who explore production processes and systematic review quality, and technologists such as software developers, statisticians, and vendors. This diversity of participants was intended to ensure effective communication with numerous stakeholders about progress toward automation of systematic reviews and stimulate discussion about potential solutions to identified challenges. The meeting highlighted challenges, both simple and complex, and raised awareness among participants about ongoing efforts by various stakeholders. An outcome of this forum was to identify several short-term projects that participants felt would advance the automation of tasks in the systematic review workflow including (1) fostering better understanding about available tools, (2) developing validated datasets for testing new tools, (3) determining a standard method to facilitate interoperability of tools such as through an application programming interface or API, and (4) establishing criteria to evaluate the quality of tools' output. ICASR 2016 provided a beneficial forum to foster focused discussion about tool development and resources and reconfirm ICASR members' commitment toward systematic reviews' automation.
第二届国际系统评价自动化合作会议（ICASR）于 2016 年 10 月 3 日至 4 日在美国宾夕法尼亚州费城举行。ICASR 是一个跨学科组织，其目标是最大限度地利用技术进行快速、准确和高效的科学证据系统评价。拥有系统评价自动化工具应该能够使审查更加透明和及时，最大限度地发现和转化研究结果的潜力，使其能够实际应用。会议汇集了多个利益相关者群体，包括总结研究的使用者、探索生产过程和系统评价质量的方法学家，以及软件开发人员、统计学家和供应商等技术专家。这种多样性的参与者旨在确保与众多利益相关者就系统评价自动化的进展进行有效沟通，并激发对确定的挑战的潜在解决方案的讨论。会议重点讨论了简单和复杂的挑战，并提高了与会者对各种利益相关者正在进行的努力的认识。该论坛的一个成果是确定了几个短期项目，参与者认为这些项目将推进系统评价工作流程中任务的自动化，包括：（1）增进对现有工具的了解；（2）为测试新工具开发验证数据集；（3）确定一种标准方法，以促进工具（如通过应用程序编程接口或 API）的互操作性；（4）建立评估工具输出质量的标准。2016 年的 ICASR 为促进关于工具开发和资源的重点讨论提供了有益的论坛，并再次确认了 ICASR 成员对系统评价自动化的承诺。
