"The Reality of Digital Science"

the reality of ‘digital science’ kaitlin thaney SciPy, 13 july 2011 austin, texasWednesday, 13 July 2011

xi. backgroundWednesday, 13 July 2011

about meWednesday, 13 July 2011

Digital Science (the company)Wednesday, 13 July 2011

investment arm incubator role in-house devWednesday, 13 July 2011

tiered approach build to scale researcher-focusedWednesday, 13 July 2011

1. science, tech, and moving onlineWednesday, 13 July 2011

Wednesday, 13 July 2011

research idea lit review publish discovery share results materials retest analyze experiment collect dataWednesday, 13 July 2011

blocking points (to name a few ... ) idea lit review publish discovery share results materials retest analyze experiment collect dataWednesday, 13 July 2011

access analysis disseminationWednesday, 13 July 2011

text text textWednesday, 13 July 2011

discovery & deliveryWednesday, 13 July 2011

changes at the workbenchWednesday, 13 July 2011

annotation & curationWednesday, 13 July 2011

social & administrativeWednesday, 13 July 2011

gaps still existWednesday, 13 July 2011

2. key constituenciesWednesday, 13 July 2011

(3)Wednesday, 13 July 2011

machines researchers decision makersWednesday, 13 July 2011

... annotation markup search discovery “behind the scenes” ...Wednesday, 13 July 2011

[brief interlude]Wednesday, 13 July 2011

digitisation of the scholarly canon (content is still king)Wednesday, 13 July 2011

not nearly there yet ...Wednesday, 13 July 2011

barriers to “access”Wednesday, 13 July 2011

still the starting pointWednesday, 13 July 2011

patents are no better (in many cases, worse)Wednesday, 13 July 2011

can streamlineWednesday, 13 July 2011

name disambiguationWednesday, 13 July 2011

10,11-dihydro-5-methyl-5H-dibenzo[b,e][1,4]diazepin-11-one (still strains the minds of the best)Wednesday, 13 July 2011

machine readability is key. agreement is hard.Wednesday, 13 July 2011

10,11-dihydro-5-methyl-5H-dibenzo[b,e][1,4]diazepin-11-oneWednesday, 13 July 2011

“everything is metadata ... everything can be a label.” - david weinbergerWednesday, 13 July 2011

a few edge cases (though no field is perfect)Wednesday, 13 July 2011

CC-BY-2.0 - Plaxco Lab - http://www.flickr.com/photos/34857812@N04/Wednesday, 13 July 2011

tracking expiration calibrationWednesday, 13 July 2011

ordering + processing the non-digitalWednesday, 13 July 2011

protocols parameters calibration misc. litWednesday, 13 July 2011

managing information different types of “data”Wednesday, 13 July 2011

often gigabytes, not terabytesWednesday, 13 July 2011

“i invented a folder based system ...”Wednesday, 13 July 2011

“i invented a folder based system ...” “yeah, we had a LIMS. it only ever got used to store photos from lab nights out.”Wednesday, 13 July 2011

why? experimentation reliance data moves, grows legs funder/instit’n pressureWednesday, 13 July 2011

rewards, incentives the “ why ”Wednesday, 13 July 2011

data capture (of a different sort)Wednesday, 13 July 2011

the “social issue” best practices behaviour roadblocks discipline / researcher specificWednesday, 13 July 2011

paper’s still the currencyWednesday, 13 July 2011

imperfect systemWednesday, 13 July 2011

“Right now were going through a Cambrian explosion of metrics.” - Johan Bollen Nature 465, 864-866 (2010) | doi:10.1038/465864aWednesday, 13 July 2011

there’s been a drastic spike in terms of sheer volume and typeWednesday, 13 July 2011

citation / impact factor h - index weighted citations (eigenfactor, sjr) “betweenness centrality” alt-metrics, etc.Wednesday, 13 July 2011

difficult to ... harmonise track /maintain / map understand (even still measure)Wednesday, 13 July 2011

administrators / funders = part of the research cycleWednesday, 13 July 2011

3. the realityWednesday, 13 July 2011

“the future is here ... just not evenly distributed yet.” - William GibsonWednesday, 13 July 2011

changing understandings, paradigmsWednesday, 13 July 2011

technology can help design decisions are key plan for the irrationalWednesday, 13 July 2011

more efficient research increase productivity enable reproducibilityWednesday, 13 July 2011

thank you. k.thaney@digital-science.com www.digital-science.com @kaythaneyWednesday, 13 July 2011

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