Consultant,

Honorary Academic Editor

Associate Director,

Principal Investigator

Susanna-Assunta Sansone, PhD

@biosharing

Westminster Higher Education Forum London, 25 March, 2015

Not just data, but digital research objects

TRAINING MATERIAL

STANDARDS

PUBLICATIONS

. . . . .

Not just open, but FAIR research objects

Findable

- PID for each concept used- PID assignment authorities- …

Accessible

- Licenses on objects- Authentication/authorization- …

Interoperable

- Machine understand objects- Workflow- …

Reusable

- Functionally interlinked- Harmonized- …

Big Life

Science Company

Yesterday Today Tomorrow

Yesterday Today Tomorrow

Innovation Model Innovation inside Searching for Innovation Heterogeneity of collaborations; part of the wider ecosystem

IT Internal apps & data Struggling with change security and trust

Cloud, services

Data Mostly inside In and out Distributed

Portfolio Internally driven and owned Partially shared Shared portfolio

Credit to: Pistoia Alliance

Big Life

Science Company

Proprietarycontentprovider

Publiccontentprovider

Academicgroup

Software vendor

CRO

Service provider

Regulatoryauthorities

Benefits to business, e.g. life sciences companies

The value of public-private-partnerships

An example advancing the FAIR concept

More progresses and alliances in UK, EU…

More progresses and alliances in UK, EU & USA

What counts• Money• Grants• Papers• Teaching • Service…

What does not• Sharing data• Sharing software• Open access• Collaboration• Patents…

Paraphrasing: Getting Ahead as a Computational Biologist in Academia PLOS Comp Biol

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002001

Credit to: Melissa Haendel

What really matters to researchers?

What counts• Money• Grants• Papers• Teaching • Service…

What does not• Sharing data• Sharing software• Open access• Collaboration• Patents…

Paraphrasing: Getting Ahead as a Computational Biologist in Academia PLOS Comp Biol

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002001

Credit to: Melissa Haendel

What really matters to researchers?

New driving forces…..

Re-think REF +

Design career paths for data scientists

New driving forces…..