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Science in the openWhat can be done? And where will it take us?
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Helen BermanLorie LeJeune
Iain Emsley
Neil Saunders
Brian Kelly
Harry Collins
Michael Nielsen
Jen Dodd
Greg Wilson
Timo Hannay
Maxine Clarke
Jenny RohnRicardo Vidal Paulo Nuin
Jenny HalePeter Murray-Rust
Deepak Singh
Jon Udell
Tim O’Reilly
David Crotty
Rafael Sidi
Richard Akerman
Jean-Claude Bradley
Mike Ellis
Liz Lyons
Andy Powell
Gavin Baker Peter Suber
Victor Henning
Sabine Hossenfelder Flickr
Steve Wilson
Andrew Milsted
Frank Norman
Dave de RoureJeremy Frey
John Cumbers
Bill Flanagan
ISIS LSS Group
Lakshmi Shastry
Catherine Jones
ISIS Computing GroupSTFC
Plausible AccuracyJohn
Dupuis
Chad Orzel
Ken Shankland
Martyn Bull
Jonathan Gray
Rufus Pollock
Clay Shirky
Kevin Kelly
Gavin Bell
Shirley Wu
Euan Adie
Richard Curry Ian Mulvany
Jamie McQuay
Atilla Csordas
Pawel Szcsesny Gabriel Cavalli
Matt Wood
TIM HUBBARD
DUNCAN HULL
Richard Grant Branwen Hide
PLoSFriendfeed
Bora Zivkovic
Peter Binfield
John Wilbanks
Kaitlin ThaneyThe BioGang
Tony WilliamsEgon Willighagen
Martin FennerYaroslav Nikolaev
Jon EisenMichael Eisen
Richard Akerman
Jeremiah FaithMichael Barton
Lee Smolin
Garret Lisi
Victoria Stodden
Simon ColesTony Hey
Noel Gorelick
Jon Tansley
Benjamin Good Dorothea Salo
Paul Walk
Mitch Waldrop
Björn Brembs
Rich Apodaca
Bill Hooker
Pedro Beltrao
Mat Todd
SciFoo 2008/9 campers
Stephen Brenner
Brian Matthews
Allyson Lister
Phil Lord
Steve Koch
Koch Lab
Carole Goble
Stephen FriendEva Amsen
JOHN WILLINSKY
TIM HUBBARDTIM HUBBARDTIM HUBBARD
Steph Hannon
Rebecca Goulding
Leigh Dodds
Paul Miller
Mark BorkumDan Hagon
Jim Downing
Nico Adams
@gnatFabiana Kubke
Hope LemanLisa Green
Ariel Waldmann
@tGrace Baynes
Simon Philips
Matt Johnson
Lee Dirks
Microsoft
NPG Ben Goldacre
Arfon Smith
Nicholas Cole
Chris Leonard
About me.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andypowe11/3915450391
I live in Bath
I work at RAL
I work for STFC...
ButThe opinions expressed in this talk are the personal views of the speaker given as a private citizen and should not unders any circumstances be taken of as indicative of STFC, RCUK, or government policy or of any discussions within these organizations of future policy....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andypowe11/3251538402
I get up in the morning
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbuck007/3710451826
...and catch a train
...and a bus
...to get to work
Wikimedia Commons Succinate_Dehydrogenase_1YQ3_and_Membrane.png
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I work on...
...and get to do cool stuff
Mixture of small-lab work...
...and big facility experiments
http://www.flickr.com/photos/loty/326761635
Lots of reading...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amagill/38961674
...meetings...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22819720@N02/2306780847
...too much travel...
...which leads to too much of this
http://flickr.com/photos/cliche/120070310/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amagill/38961674
http://www.flickr.com/photos/loty/326761635
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattbuck007/3710451826
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andypowe11/3251538402
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22819720@N02/2306780847
Why?
Why do they pay?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/US_Congress_02.jpg
Why do they pay?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mararie/3313582639/ CC-BY-SA
Why do they pay?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mararie/3313582639/ CC-BY-SA
we
Cures...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59334544@N00/2322167178
http://www.flickr.com/photos/natematias/310642831 CC-BY-SA
Prestige...
...excitementhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/penmachine/2109311458/
Why do I do it?
Mortgage...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/2143212474 CC-BY
...curiosity...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emiliodelprado/225161313
Fun!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/2908834853
This is a privilege.
Not a right.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/3947254236
But how?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/valeriebb/2248744703
But sometimes...
...formal publication
http://flickr.com/photos/nicmcphee/2756494307/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/siberianluck/3450937497...is overkill...
An example
9:00 am, 4 September 2008
Flickr tag: UC207
http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/Exp207
7:36 pm, 4 September 2008
Publishing is easy...http://www.flickr.com/photos/cybershotking/329184504/
...data, documents, media...
Broadcasting is easy...
...sharing is harder
http://www.flickr.com/photos/missrogue/107787363
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfllaw/222795669
Interoperability is the key...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffsand/3871415191
Technical interoperability...
...formats, vocabularies
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spunter/3239363956
Legal interoperability...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spunter/3239363956
Legal interoperability...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spunter/3239363956
Legal interoperability...
Formally, we recommend adopting and acting on the following principles:
1. When publishing data make an explicit and robust statement of your wishes.2. Use a recognised waiver or license that is appropriate for data.3. If you want your data to be effectively [...] non-commercial and other restrictive clauses should not be used.4. Explicit dedication of data underlying published science into the public domain via PDDL or CCZero is strongly recommended...
Technical interop.
Legal interop.
Process interoperability
Systems need to work with existing process
...and people
Lucyʼs pcrNew bufferoligo25spinach digestYesterdayOlderFilter by user
Samples
Do experiment!
Capture first...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/furtwangl/3851841424
...then add structure
Dionaea muscipula Musca domesticachomped on
Map our process onto agreed vocabularies
...when we tell the story
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tnarik/366393127
Machines do structure
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yeowatzup/2463225297
Machines need structure
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yeowatzup/2463225297
....humans tell stories
Tools that capture the pieces of the research
record as we create them
Tools that capture structure as we choose
the pieces for our narrative
Tools that exploit structure that is already in the process
What can we do?
Technically able to share
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/3088582622
...the whole record
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AGBell_Notebook.jpg
...but will we want to share?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66164549@N00/2162663143
No.
The mainstream response looks like
http://flickr.com/photos/zanotti/314391903/
...or...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tammra/283690669/
...leading to a lot of...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tranchis/3708549622
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattymatt/3017263513
How do we persuade?
Actually I’m not worried...
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The human scientist(that’s me)
Does. Not. Scale.
The web scales
Government doesn’t scale
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amagill/38961674
...research groups don’t scale
The web scales
Scientists will need to be web-native just to survive
Web native means connected
Bollen J, Van de Sompel H, Hagberg A, Bettencourt L, Chute R, et al. (2009) Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science. PLoS ONE 4(3): e4803. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004803
which means sharing...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doubledareya/2443303399
“I propose the seeming paradox that in science, private property is
established by having its substance freely given to others
who might want to make use of it.”
Merton (1988) ISIS 79:606
Not just papers
And if the objects are not open and available?
Open content builds the network
The network is the only way we will keep up
If we build tools that help scientists build networks...
http://flickr.com/photos/good-karma/710068054/
… then (more) open research will follow
[email protected]://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopenhttp://slideshare.net/cameronneylonTwitter: @cameronneylonFriendfeed: cameronneylon
Thanks to:Sciencetwists, Friendfeeders, and the wider online community for ideas, criticism, and conversations.
Deepak Singh, Larry Lessig, Andy Powell, and John Wilbanks for presentation inspiration.
Flickr and Wikimedia Commons for images
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