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School of ComputingFaculty of Engineering

Show us your working: an archaeology method store

Anthony Beck & David Stott

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Background

During AARG 2010 a Method Store was discussed

This went viral with support from a number of international institutions/people:

Open Knowledge Foundation

Council for British Archaeology

English Heritage

Antiquist

3d heritage

This is its story.....

sorry mainly text and a few pickies

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Show us your working

Knowledge industries are undergoing fundamental change. • Research/Policy/Management is becoming ever more open and

collaborative.

The boundaries are blurring between the formal and informal• The traditional power/organisational structures are sometimes no longer

relevant

• As demonstrated y the Western Poland case study

Greater access/transparency is demanded of publically funded research and knowledge. • The ClimateGate scandal at UEA in 2009.

• The Big Society

• Open Data (dot) Gov

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Show us your working

Funding councils are demanding that publically funded research should make publications available as openly accessible documents • it is likely that they will soon demand similar access to

• data,

• algorithms

• other outputs from the research process.

Social media companies, like twitter, are changing the research landscape.

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Show us your working

Consumers of research are participating in a conversation, not listening to a lecture.

More sophisticated forms of engagement can increase impact dramatically. • This will significantly change the way institutions ‘do business’.

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Why

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Why

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Why

Open Methods provide transparent access to the process

The user controls and understands the data processing and transformation

From Black Box to White Box

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What are Open Methods?

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What is Open Science

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What Open Science is NOT

Just providing access to your data when a project has finished

It's as much about engaging with the process as engaging with the science objects

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Why Open Science?

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Why Open Science?

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Why not Open Science

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The Method Store: VISION

A repository that facilitates the collaborative development of methodologies and stops the community re-inventing the methodological wheel.

A framework that is not intimidating for users, allowing all sectors of the domain to participate, but allows potentially rich data objects to be submitted (such as Taverna workflows).

A system that allows links to be drawn between methodologies to indicate, for example, synergy, workflow or provenance.

An environment which captures the cloud of discussion/narrative surrounding the development or forking of a method.

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The Method Store: VISION

What is proposed is a methodology store: an environment within which methods, algorithms etc. can be • deposited,

• shared,

• tagged,

• linked,

• chained,

• developed.

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The Method Store: Licencing

In the long term this method store will only contain objects that are released under a Creative Commons, or other, open licence. This form of initiative has resonance outside the archaeological community.

What about copyright • Re-use licencing is important

• There are bodies and protocols in place

• ~ Science Commons

• ~ Creative Commons

• ~ GPL

• Not solely an open science issue

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The Method Store: Content

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The Website

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The Future

Workflows

Better referencing

Semantic tagging

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The Future: Workflows

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The Future

There are other similar initiatives

More will come

Some will gain traction

Others will wither and die

All the content should be cross transferable

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The Future

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Thanks. Any Questions?

http://methods.okfn.org/


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