Open Research:
  Pipedream or already here?
                       Cameron Neylon - OKCon
                         Berlin - 30 June 2011


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@communicating Plausible         Accuracy PIERRE LINDENBAUM Mummi Thorissson
      John   Fabiana Kubke Richard Grant             Pedro Beltrao
            Neil Saunders Steve Wilson @gnat Branwen Hide   Simon Coles
    Dupuis Simon Philips Pawel Szcsesny Paul Miller
     Tony Hey Jeremy Frey Nico Adams Richard Akerman Cavalli  Gabriel
 JonMat Todd Stephen BrennerTim O’Reilly                               Noel Gorelick
                                                     Dave de Roure Rich Apodaca
Udell ISIS LSS Group Jeremiah Faith Jean-Claude Bradley
                                                                  Nicholas Cole
        Michael Barton JOHN WILLINSKY Phil Lord Victoria	
  Stodden Martyn Bull
Gilles Friedmann
        Stephen Friend David CrottyClay Shirky @t              John Cumbers
       Bora Chris Leonard Grace BaynesEva Amsen Egon	
  Willighagen Mark Borkum
             Brian Kelly Tony Williams Dan Hagon Maxine Clarke Andrew Milsted
     Zivkovic Mitch Koch Lab Michael Nielsen
     Josh Sommers                                     Martin Fenner Steph Hannon
    Ant Beck WaldropGreg Wilson Brian Matthews Leigh Dodds Bill Hooker
              Glyn Moody Yaroslav Nikolaev Jenny Rohn Rafael Sidi Lee Smolin
           Frank NormanRicardo Vidal Iain Emsley Paulo Nuin Ariel Waldmann
        Timo HannayKen Shankland Lorie LeJeune
                                                         Jonathan Gray PT Sefton
   Microsoft STFC Deepak Singh Shirley Wu ISIS Computing Group Helen Berman
  Andrew Peter Binfield Benjamin Good Dorothea Salo Liz Lyons PLoS
Kasarskis Jen Dodd Lee Dirks Peter Murray-Rust Richard Akerman
         Carole Goble Jon Eisen Jenny Hale Lakshmi Shastry Steve Koch NPG Ben Goldacre
            Chad OrzelBill Flanagan Jon Tansley Michael Eisen Matt Wood
   SciFoo
   2008/9
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                Jo BadgeAllyson Lister Lisa Green TIM HUBBARD Rebecca Goulding
  campers Euan Adie John Andy Powell Harry Collins Gavin Bell Jim Downing
      Matt Johnson Wilbanks Mike Ellis DUNCAN HULL Garret Lisi Jamie McQuay
      ALAN CANN Catherine Jones Andrew Farke Gavin Baker Peter Suber
   Sabine HossenfelderFlickr The BioGangKevin KellyPaul Walk
                                    Arfon Smith
            Kaitlin Thaney Richard Curry Atilla Csordas Ian Mulvany
“Open Science is the timely
communication of research,
from start to finish, without
  boundaries, to enable a
billion minds to participate”

 Open Science Workshop - OAI7 - Geneva
“Open Science is the timely
communication of research,
from start to finish, without
  boundaries, to enable a
billion minds to participate”

 Open Science Workshop - OAI7 - Geneva
“Open Science is the timely
communication of research,
from start to finish, without
  boundaries, to enable a
billion minds to participate”

 Open Science Workshop - OAI7 - Geneva
“Open Science is the timely
communication of research,
from start to finish, without
  boundaries, to enable a
billion minds to participate”

 Open Science Workshop - OAI7 - Geneva
“Open Science is the timely
communication of research,
from start to finish, without
  boundaries, to enable a
billion minds to participate”

 Open Science Workshop - OAI7 - Geneva
“Open Science is the timely
communication of research,
from start to finish, without
  boundaries, to enable a
billion minds to participate”

 Open Science Workshop - OAI7 - Geneva
Timely...




http://www.flickr.com/photos/robbie73/3387189144 CC-BY-SA
...complete...




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...inclusive...




http://www.flickr.com/photos/mararie/3313582639/ CC-BY-SA
Communication
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tranchis/3708549622




          Text



This is not communication...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chadmiller/2740551034
http://www.flickr.com/photos/horiavarlan/4290549806 CC-BY
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevenlaw/2895171747 CC-BY-SA



Faster...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottjacksonx/4766911908 CC-BY
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/3947254236
...it feels like we’ve
                                              been saying this
                                                  for a while...




http://www.flickr.com/photos/hexadecimal_time/2258109091CC-BY
But where’s the evidence?




http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattymatt/3017263513
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flavinsky/3410980137 CC-BY
“No-one will publish
     in new (OA) journals”




                                “There’s no business
                                model for OA...”
http://flickr.com/photos/nicmcphee/2756494307/ CC-BY
“Sharing only works
for easy things...”
                       “No-one can use my data...”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/3088582622
800



600



400
                                        50% of Hubble
200
                                        papers not from
                                        original project...
  0
   1991    1993     1995    1997     1999     2001    2003      2005      2007        2009

          Requested time       Secondary data use       Mixed          Not assigned
          Data from http://archive.stsci.edu/hst/bibliography/pubstat.html
“The wider community...

                                           ...aren’t interested...
                                       ...don’t understand...
                                              ...can’t contribute”


http://www.flickr.com/photos/untitlism/22800371 CC-BY
http://opendino.wordpress.com




http://climatecode.org
More unique users at
PubMedCentral (40%) come
 from IP ranges of domestic
  internet suppliers than any
        other source...
Have gone from...




http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuartpilbrow/3345896050 CC-BY-SA
...to...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62337512@N00/3958637561 CC-BY
The future is already here...




http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwire/3397651143 CC-BY
...and it is unevenly distributed
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevandotorg/5825995105 CC-BY
But we are capturing more...




http://www.flickr.com/photos/pandawan/3950755957
..and more effectively...




http://www.flickr.com/photos/furtwangl/3851841424
What has changed?
Maturity of infrastructure.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/baccharus/4473818003 CC-BY
Technical infrastructure...



http://www.flickr.com/photos/adrian_s/8271860 CC-BY
Still a lot of this but
  we’re working on it...




http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfllaw/222795669
Legal infrastructure...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spunter/3239363956 CC-BY
We still have...




http://www.flickr.com/photos/schnurrbart/43568532/ CC-BY-SA
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tammra/283690669/
Social infrastructure?



http://www.flickr.com/photos/rkramer62/4781622634 CC-BY
Incentives...?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daquellamanera/3238300837 CC-BY
This is not infrastructure
This is scaffolding...



http://www.flickr.com/photos/robbie1/1555596 CC-BY
...may not
  be stable...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/istolethetv/3211461988 CC-BY
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wetwebwork/550877092 CC-BY-SA
...may become over-engineered...




http://www.flickr.com/photos/saragoldsmith/161854005 CC-BY
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5497223240 CC-BY-SA
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgifford/3558463424 CC-BY-SA
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seier/5360425617 CC-BY
How do we embed values?
Is it a return to traditions?




http://www.flickr.com/photos/14947022@N06/5109533621 CC-BY
Or the growth of new ones?
Opening the gates?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andypowe11/3759152528
...but citation is traditional
A mixture.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aidanmorgan/4127482022 CC-BY
The new embedded
 in the traditional...
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@communicating Plausible         Accuracy PIERRE LINDENBAUM Mummi Thorissson
      John   Fabiana Kubke Richard Grant             Pedro Beltrao
            Neil Saunders Steve Wilson @gnat Branwen Hide   Simon Coles
    Dupuis Simon Philips Pawel Szcsesny Paul Miller
     Tony Hey Jeremy Frey Nico Adams Richard Akerman Cavalli  Gabriel
 JonMat Todd Stephen BrennerTim O’Reilly                               Noel Gorelick
                                                     Dave de Roure Rich Apodaca
Udell ISIS LSS Group Jeremiah Faith Jean-Claude Bradley
                                                                  Nicholas Cole
        Michael Barton JOHN WILLINSKY Phil Lord Victoria	
  Stodden Martyn Bull
Gilles Friedmann
        Stephen Friend David CrottyClay Shirky @t              John Cumbers
       Bora Chris Leonard Grace BaynesEva Amsen Egon	
  Willighagen Mark Borkum
             Brian Kelly Tony Williams Dan Hagon Maxine Clarke Andrew Milsted
     Zivkovic Mitch Koch Lab Michael Nielsen
     Josh Sommers                                     Martin Fenner Steph Hannon
    Ant Beck WaldropGreg Wilson Brian Matthews Leigh Dodds Bill Hooker
              Glyn Moody Yaroslav Nikolaev Jenny Rohn Rafael Sidi Lee Smolin
           Frank NormanRicardo Vidal Iain Emsley Paulo Nuin Ariel Waldmann
        Timo HannayKen Shankland Lorie LeJeune
                                                         Jonathan Gray PT Sefton
   Microsoft STFC Deepak Singh Shirley Wu ISIS Computing Group Helen Berman
  Andrew Peter Binfield Benjamin Good Dorothea Salo Liz Lyons PLoS
Kasarskis Jen Dodd Lee Dirks Peter Murray-Rust Richard Akerman
         Carole Goble Jon Eisen Jenny Hale Lakshmi Shastry Steve Koch NPG Ben Goldacre
            Chad OrzelBill Flanagan Jon Tansley Michael Eisen Matt Wood
   SciFoo
   2008/9
             Friendfeed Hope Leman Rufus Pollock Victor HenningGoogle Björn Brembs
                Jo BadgeAllyson Lister Lisa Green TIM HUBBARD Rebecca Goulding
  campers Euan Adie John Andy Powell Harry Collins Gavin Bell Jim Downing
      Matt Johnson Wilbanks Mike Ellis DUNCAN HULL Garret Lisi Jamie McQuay
      ALAN CANN Catherine Jones Andrew Farke Gavin Baker Peter Suber
   Sabine HossenfelderFlickr The BioGangKevin KellyPaul Walk
                                    Arfon Smith
            Kaitlin Thaney Richard Curry Atilla Csordas Ian Mulvany
The time to start is now.

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What are you values?

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                                      What are our values?
How do we live them?

Open Research: Pipedream or growing reality