The myExperiment approach to Open Science David De Roure Carole Goble Jiten Bhagat Don Cruickshank

scientists Graduate Students Undergraduate Students experimentation Data, Metadata Provenance Workflows Ontologies Digital Libraries The social process of Science 2.0 Local Web Repositories Virtual Learning Environment Technical Reports Reprints Peer-Reviewed Journal & Conference Papers Preprints & Metadata Certified Experimental Results & Analyses

Sharing pieces of process Carole Goble and David De Roure, Curating Scientific Web Services and Workflows , EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 5 (September/October 2008) http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/page/code/EXPLAN001 http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/tc/trident.mspx http://www.mygrid.org.uk/tools/taverna/

myExperiment.org is… “ Facebook for Scientists”...but different to Facebook! A community social network Fine control over sharing A federated repository A gateway to other publishing environments A platform for launching workflows Open source (BSD) Started March 2007 Closed beta since July 2007 Open beta November 2007 Go to www.myexperiment.org to access publicly available content or create an account myExperiment.org is... myExperiment currently has 1400 registered users, 120 groups, 540 workflows, 147 files and 44 packs

“ Facebook for Scientists”...but different to Facebook!

A community social network

Fine control over sharing

A federated repository

A gateway to other publishing environments

A platform for launching workflows

Open source (BSD)

Started March 2007

Closed beta since July 2007

Open beta November 2007

Go to www.myexperiment.org to access publicly available content or create an account

“ Do I want my Science associated with a medium like this?”

myExperiment.org is… User Profiles Groups Friends Sharing Tags Workflows Developer interface Credits and Attributions Fine control over privacy Packs Federation Enactment myExperiment Features Distinctives

User Profiles

Groups

Friends

Sharing

Tags

Workflows

Developer interface

Credits and Attributions

Fine control over privacy

Packs

Federation

Enactment

Ownership and Attribution The most important aspect of myExperiment Designed by scientists

Packs Packs allow you to collect different items together, like you might with a "wish list" or "shopping basket" You can collect internal things (such as workflows, files and even other packs) as well as link to things outside myExperiment Your packs can then be shared, tagged, discovered and discussed easily on myExperiment

Packs allow you to collect different items together, like you might with a "wish list" or "shopping basket"

You can collect internal things (such as workflows, files and even other packs) as well as link to things outside myExperiment

Your packs can then be shared, tagged, discovered and discussed easily on myExperiment

Exporting packs

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Google Gadgets Bringing myExperiment to the iGoogle user

Taverna Plugin Bringing myExperiment to the Taverna user

Facebook

PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> PREFIX myexp: <http://rdf.myexperiment.org/ontology#> PREFIX sioc: <http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#> select ?friend1 ?friend2 ?acceptedat where {?z rdf:type <http://rdf.myexperiment.org/ontology#Friendship> . ?z myexp:has-requester ?x . ?x sioc:name ?friend1 . ?z myexp:has-accepter ?y . ?y sioc:name ?friend2 . ?z myexp:accepted-at ?acceptedat } All accepted Friendships including accepted-at time Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities SPARQL endpoint

Fit in, Don’t Force Change Jam today and more jam tomorrow Just in Time and Just Enough Act Local, think Global Enable Users to Add Value Design for Network Effects Six Principles of Software Design to Empower Scientists Keep your Friends Close Embed Keep Sight of the Bigger Picture Favours will be in your Favour Know your users Expect and Anticipate Change De Roure, D. and Goble, C. Software Design for Empowering Scientists, IEEE Software, Volume 26, Issue 1, Jan-Feb 2009, pages 88-95.

Fit in, Don’t Force Change

Jam today and more jam tomorrow

Just in Time and Just Enough

Act Local, think Global

Enable Users to Add Value

Design for Network Effects

Keep your Friends Close

Embed

Keep Sight of the Bigger Picture

Favours will be in your Favour

Know your users

Expect and Anticipate Change

e-Laboratory Lifecycle

Workflow Monitoring Event Logging Social Metadata Annotation Service Search User Registration Distributed Data Query Job Execution Naming and Identity Anonymisation Text Mining Research Object Management Assembling e-Laboratories Example Core Services An e-Lab is a set of components and resources An open system, not a software monolith Utility of components transcends their immediate application We envisage an ecosystem of cooperating e-Laboratories What are the e-Lab components and services? What are the Research Objects?

An e-Lab is a set of components and resources

An open system, not a software monolith

Utility of components transcends their immediate application

We envisage an ecosystem of cooperating e-Laboratories

What are the e-Lab components and services?

What are the Research Objects?

Content Capture and Curation Workflows and Services Experts Social by User Community refine validate refine validate Self by Service Providers seed seed refine validate seed Automated refine validate seed Reuse and Symbiosis

Summary myExperiment provides social infrastructure – it facilitates sharing and enables scientists to collaborate in order to compete. Reputation and incentives. myExperiment has growing community and growing content Supports Taverna, Trident, UsefulChem, ... Team working on Kepler, Meandre next Community added WSVLAM, GWorkflowDL, ... Scale makes discovery more difficult and easier! Could share R, matlab, statistical models, spreadsheets We are targetting how we believe research will be conducted in the future, through the assembly of e-Laboratories which share Research Objects

myExperiment provides social infrastructure – it facilitates sharing and enables scientists to collaborate in order to compete. Reputation and incentives.

myExperiment has growing community and growing content

Supports Taverna, Trident, UsefulChem, ...

Team working on Kepler, Meandre next

Community added WSVLAM, GWorkflowDL, ...

Scale makes discovery more difficult and easier!

Could share R, matlab, statistical models, spreadsheets

We are targetting how we believe research will be conducted in the future, through the assembly of e-Laboratories which share Research Objects

Contact David De Roure dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk http://blog.openwetware.org/eresearch/ Carole Goble [email_address] Further info wiki.myexperiment.org Thanks The myGrid Family, National Centre for e-Social Science, CombeChem, Scientific Workflow Community

Contact

David De Roure

dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk

http://blog.openwetware.org/eresearch/

Carole Goble

[email_address]

Further info

wiki.myexperiment.org

Thanks

The myGrid Family, National Centre for e-Social Science, CombeChem, Scientific Workflow Community