U K O L N Feb 08

A Beginner’s Guide to Open Science: Not for beginners but by beginners Cameron Neylon STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and School of Chemistry, University of Southampton

Why?
How?
Where?

Open [ oh -p uh n ] (adjective) not closed… having no means of closing or barring… relatively free of obstruction… without restrictions as to who may participate… undecided; unsettled… (from Dictionary.com )

Open
‘ No insider information’
Jean-Claude Bradley

Why?
How?
Where?

‘ Malaria kills 3000 children a day’
‘ 33 million people are living with HIV’
Image from WikiMedia Commons

90% of publicly funded research is unavailable[?]
For commercial drug research this figures is…
Image from WikiMedia Commons

Can we use the resources we have in both knowledge and expertise more effectively to make people’s lives better? Image from WikiMedia Commons

Funding bodies telling us to Finding your own data Access and communication Pragmatic Reasons

Why?
How?
Where?

Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish What am I thinking? What am I reading? What am I doing? What does it mean? What have I done? How do I justify it?

Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish Decide to go out on Saturday Where is the best place to go? Email parents for more cash Photos, video, Twitter Blog, YouTube, Facebook Discuss and tag photos and video What am I thinking? What am I reading? What am I doing? What does it mean? What have I done? How do I justify it?

Blogs Wikis Connotea, Citeulike, Zotero GoogleDocs, ThinkFree Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish What am I thinking? What am I reading? What am I doing? What does it mean? What have I done? How do I justify it?

http:// www.zoology.ubc.ca/~redfieldindex.html Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish What am I thinking? What does the data mean?

Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish What am I reading?

http:// openwetware.org/wiki/Nxsib:community/papers Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish What am I reading?

http:// usefulchem.wikispaces.com Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish What am I doing?

http:// chemtools.chem.soton.ac.uk/projects/blogs/blogs.php/blog_id/10 Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish What am I doing?

Open call for participants on Blog
Collaborative writing on GoogleDocs.
Concept to submitted proposal in five days
http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/2007/12/12/the-open-research-network-proposal-update-and-reflections/ Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish

Blogs Wikis Connotea, Citeulike, Zotero GoogleDocs, ThinkFree      Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish

Blogs Wikis Connotea, Citeulike, Zotero GoogleDocs, ThinkFree       Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish

Why?
How?
Where?

Lab notebook

Lab notebook RSS Feed Search

Lab notebook Descriptive Blog RSS Feed Search RSS Feed Search

Lab notebook Blog

Lab notebook Blog Lab notebook Lab notebook

Lab notebook Blog

Lab notebook Blog Bookmarks Contacts Literature

Technology
Pieces are (mostly) in place
Easy to use glueware is not available
Agreement on semantics and tags required
But
Much of this can be done with RSS, search, and filters

Data portability and standards on tagging and ID are critical
Open ID, RSS, XML, microformats, and flexible metadata can solve many of these problems
Graphical filtering and mashup tools

Benefits
Enhanced communication
Better record keeping
Better data archival
Risks
Looking stupid
Being ‘scooped’
Publication?
IP?

The potential is there to do better and more efficient research The tools need more work but the culture needs more work again Prospects for Open Science?

Development Jeremy Frey, Andrew Milsted, Steve Wilson, Jenny Hale, Wendy Smith Ideas Jean-Claude Bradley, Jeremiah Faith, Michael Barton, Deepak Singh, Bill Hooker, Pedro Beltrao, Shirley Wu, Ricardo Vidal, Mat Todd, Antony Williams, Peter Murray-Rust… ‘The Open Science Collective’ Acknowledgements

Courtesy XKCD online comic xkcd.com

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