Policy Lunchbox - Digital Science

digital science and thefuture of online research kaitlin thaney policy lunchbox, 3 aug 2011 charles darwin house, london

xi. background

technology company publisher link london, nyc, tokyo

investment arm incubator role in-house dev

tiered approach build to scaleresearcher-focused

1. science is changing

1. science is changing (and the research workflow)

research idea publish lit reviewshare results materials retest analyze experiment collect data

blocking points (to name a few ... ) idea publish lit reviewshare results materials retest analyze experiment collect data

types of information (will revisit later) idea articles content proceedings prof activities mentorship patentsshare results the non-digital “stuff” retest analysis protocols synthesis parameters datasets

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roadblocks (to name a few) ...specialisation of tools (+/-) interoperability accessibility design decisions the “social issue”

2. key constituencies

machines researchersdecision makers

...annotation markup search discovery“behind the scenes” ...

still the starting point

patents are no better (in many cases, worse)

can streamline

name disambiguation

10,11-dihydro-5-methyl-5H-dibenzo[b,e][1,4]diazepin-11-one (still strains the minds of the best)

CC-BY-2.0 - Plaxco Lab - http://www.flickr.com/photos/34857812@N04/

trackingexpiration

ordering + processingthe non-digital

protocolsparameterscalibration misc. lit

managing information different types of “data”

“i invented a folder based system ...”

“i invented a folder based system ...”“yeah, we had a LIMS. it onlyever got used to store photos from lab nights out.”

why?experimentation reliancedata moves, grows legsfunder/instit’n pressure

how we measureimpact, reputation etc.

data capture(of a different sort)

the “social issue” best practices behaviour roadblocksdiscipline / researcher specific

paper’s still the currency

imperfect system

“Right now were going through a Cambrian explosion of metrics.” - Johan Bollen Nature 465, 864-866 (2010) | doi:10.1038/465864a

there’s been a drastic spike in terms of sheer volume and type

citation / impact factor h - indexweighted citations (eigenfactor, sjr) “betweenness centrality” alt-metrics, etc.

difficult to ... harmonisetrack /maintain / map understand (even still measure)

tools for decision makers(research admin / funders) using technology to spur cultural shift

“ what do we wanton the back of our(science) baseball Top Trumps cards? “ - paul groth (et al.)

3. the reality

“the future is here ... just not evenly distributed yet.” - William Gibson

changingunderstandings, paradigms

technology can helpdesign decisions are key plan for the irrational

more efficient researchincrease productivityenable reproducibility

thank you.k.thaney@digital-science.com www.digital-science.com @kaythaney

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by Kaitlin Thaney on Aug 03, 2011

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