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Abstract management is the process of collecting, reviewing and scheduling submitted papers or presentations, from the open call through review to the final program.
Open the call, collect submissions, assign reviewers, score, accept or reject, notify everyone, chase final materials from the accepted, and schedule them into the program. The last two steps are where most of the work actually sits, and where a spreadsheet process falls apart.
Blind review removes name recognition from scoring, which matters in academic and association programs where it is a fairness question rather than a preference. Multiple reviewers per abstract smooth out individual bias. Both need the review assignments tracked, because the alternative is chasing committee members by email in the final week.
Most submitters will be rejected, and most of them are people you want back next year or in the room as attendees. A dated, specific rejection sent on the promised day preserves that relationship. Silence destroys it.
Submissions move through an approval workflow, and session reviewers can be given scoped access to read and assess proposals without full admin rights. Accepted sessions become agenda items with their speakers attached rather than being re-entered by hand. See abstract management software.
