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Talk from the AAMC GREAT/GRAND meeting in Fort Worth, Texas.
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kaitlin thaney@kaythaney ; @mozillascience
AAMC / 18 sept 2014
building capacity for open research practice
doing good is part of our code
help researchers use the power of the open web to change science’s future.
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our current systems are designed to create
friction.despite original intentions.
current state of science
articlesdata
patents
some have a firehose
articlesdata
patents
traditions last not because they are excellent, but because influential people are averse to change and because of the sheer burdens of
transition to a better state ...
“
“Cass Sunstein
downside of output-driven recognition systems
“There’s greater reward, and more temptation to
bend the rules.”- David Resnik, bioethicist
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leveraging the power of the web for scholarship
- access to content, data, code, materials.- emergence of “web-native” tools.- rewards for openness, interop, collaboration, sharing.- push for ROI, reuse, recomputability, transparency.
“web-enabled research”
what do we mean by “open research”?
community technology practices
collaborative interoperable open review
participatory discoverable data management
recognition open tools sharing / reuse
mentorship designed for reuse
documentation / versioning
we’re rewarding the wrong behavior.
at the sacrifice of scientific progress.
Source: Michener, 2006 Ecoinformatics.
“... up to 70 percent of research from academic labs cannot be reproduced, representing an enormous waste of money and effort.” - Elizabeth Iorns, Science Exchange
instill best (digital,
reproducible) practice
“research hygiene”
rethinking “professional development”
“Reliance on ad-hoc, self-
education about what’s
possible doesn’t scale.”
- Selena Decklemann
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shifting practice takes a multi-faceted approach.
necessary v. sufficient
research social capital capacity
infrastructure layers for efficient, reproducible research
open toolsstandards
best practicesresearch objectsscientific software
repositories
incentivesrecognition / P&Tinterdisciplinarity
collaborationcommunity dialogue
trainingmentorship
professional devnew policiesrecognition
stakeholders: universities, researchers, tool dev, funders, publishers ...
freedom to prototype and innovate.
(connecting the dots.)
code as a research objectwhat’s needed to reuse ?
http://bit.ly/mozfiggit
(community driven)metadata for software discovery: JSON-LD
http://bit.ly/mozfiggit
fostering a (sustainable) community of practitioners
current activity:235+ instructors
(60+, training)4000+ learners
focus on building capacity, not just more nodes.
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shifting practice (and getting it to stick)
is challenging.(takeaways and closing caveats.)
1. bake reproducible practices into the fabric of academia. and design to
enable scale.
2. create opportunities and incentives for students and
faculty to experiment, teach, work across aisles.
3. rethink how we reward researchers and support roles. (and don’t be afraid
to hit refresh.)
4. be mindful of jargon/semantics traps.
