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Thirty minute talk given at the fourth Portugese Open Access Meeting in Braga in late 2009. This talk draws from previous similar talks focussing on advocacy for open data and how to make it work for researchers on the ground.
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Science in the openWhat can be done? What should be done?
Science in the openWhat can be done? What should be done?
And where might it
lead?
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
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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...
Why?
Why do they pay?
Why do they pay?
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Why do they pay?
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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.
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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
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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...
Technical interop.
Legal interop.
Process interoperability
Systems need to work with existing process
...and people
A short story...
MyTea project:A fully semantic laboratory recordfor chemistry
http://mytea.org.uk/
But not molecular biology
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SpecificMyTea
StructuredUnstructured
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SpecificMyTea
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StructuredUnstructured
General
SpecificMyTea
Blogs
?
A recipe for chaos?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/benuski/3452291541
Yes to start with...
But then something interesting happened...
Templates Metadata
Sequence ontology:SO:0000696 “oligo”SO:0000155 “plasmid”
...but...
SO:0000006 “PCR product”or
SO:0000412 “rest. fragment”?
Self assembling ontology?
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
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...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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