The document discusses challenges with the current state of scientific research and proposes ways to leverage the power of the open web to improve science. It notes that current systems are designed to create friction rather than enable open collaboration. The document advocates for adopting practices of open source development like using community-driven metadata for software and open, iterative development. It also argues that policies and incentives need to change to reward openness, reuse and reproducibility in order to avoid wasted time, money and opportunities.
11. traditions last not because they are
excellent, but because influential
people are averse to change and
because of the sheer burdens of
transition to a better state ...
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Cass Sunstein
16. - access to content, data, code, materials.
- emergence of “web-native” tools.
- rewards for openness, interop, collaboration, sharing.
- push for ROI, reuse, recomputability, transparency.
“web-enabled research”
17. what do we mean by
“open research”?
community technology practices
collaborative interoperable open review
participatory discoverable
data
management
recognition open tools sharing / reuse
mentorship
designed for
reuse
documentation /
versioning
24. “... up to 70 percent of research from academic labs cannot be
reproduced, representing an enormous waste of money and effort.”
- Elizabeth Iorns, Science Exchange
26. $60m+ for “management”
- Joe Gray
Oregon Health + Science University Center
“We are used to billion-dollar software,
and it’s not what we can afford.
I am worried that unless we rein in our
expectations, we will do this experiment
again and we will get the same result ...”
40. Instead of cancer driving the development
of technology, it was the development of
technology that drove caBIG moving into
position where this technology could be
adopted by individuals who were
interested in cancer.
- Andrea Califano
Columbia University
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41. [Their] approach to fulfilling [their] mission
was upside down.
- Andrea Califano
Columbia University
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44. research social capital capacity
infrastructure layers for
efficient, reproducible research
open tools
standards
best practices
research objects
scientific software
repositories
incentives
recognition / P&T
interdisciplinarity
collaboration
community dialogue
training
mentorship
professional dev
new policies
recognition
stakeholders: universities, researchers,
tool dev, funders, publishers ...