Talk given at the SKAO Speaker Series in June 2021, an update of the one given at Sciencedigital@UNGA75 on 29th September 2020 as part of a series of side events to mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly.
The University of Leeds is commending its women of achievement with a special celebration, coinciding with International Women’s Day 2016. The Women of Achievement awards recognise the significant contribution and impact that women – both staff and students - have made across the University and beyond. The awards are part of the University’s commitment to further promote gender equality and support the career development of talented women in all areas of the organisation.
www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/3833/celebrating_our_women_of_achievement
www.its.leeds.ac.uk/about/news/women-of-achievement-2016
Open Science - Paradigm Shift or Revival of Old Ideas?Heidi Laine
Open science is both an old idea and a new paradigm. While openness has long been a principle of science, tools now enable unprecedented sharing of data and collaboration. This represents both continuity with past openness and a potential shift in how science is conducted. Open science may transform scientific practice through new tools and attitudes that facilitate global sharing of research. However, openness also presents challenges regarding privacy, complex issues, and influencing results that must be addressed.
The document discusses open science and its key aspects. It notes there is widespread agreement that open science affects all stages of the research process through a global, systemic shift involving varied local implementations. It also discusses challenges and opportunities of open science, including the need for: training and skills development; addressing diversity in research cultures; resolving intellectual property issues; and overcoming biases towards well-resourced research. Overall, the document argues open science provides tools for improved research governance if supported through appropriate incentives, infrastructures and monitoring.
Talk given at the Sciencedigital@UNGA75 on 29th September as part of a series of side events to mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly.
Open science refers to making scientific research and data accessible to all. It includes open access to publications, open data, open source software, open notebooks, and citizen science. The European Union supports open science to increase transparency, collaboration and innovation in research. A workshop was held in South Africa to help develop an open science policy, with feedback that the policy will be finalized in September 2018 after additional workshops with European Union involvement. Open science aims to make the entire research process publicly available and reusable to maximize scientific progress.
This document provides an overview of open science, including definitions, motivations, and plans for implementation. It discusses:
1) Definitions of open science from various organizations and perspectives.
2) Motivations for open science, including addressing anomalies in the current scientific publishing system and enabling science to better serve societal needs.
3) National and international plans and roadmaps to transition to open science, focusing on open access, open data, incentives, and skills/training.
The University of Leeds is commending its women of achievement with a special celebration, coinciding with International Women’s Day 2016. The Women of Achievement awards recognise the significant contribution and impact that women – both staff and students - have made across the University and beyond. The awards are part of the University’s commitment to further promote gender equality and support the career development of talented women in all areas of the organisation.
www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/3833/celebrating_our_women_of_achievement
www.its.leeds.ac.uk/about/news/women-of-achievement-2016
Open Science - Paradigm Shift or Revival of Old Ideas?Heidi Laine
Open science is both an old idea and a new paradigm. While openness has long been a principle of science, tools now enable unprecedented sharing of data and collaboration. This represents both continuity with past openness and a potential shift in how science is conducted. Open science may transform scientific practice through new tools and attitudes that facilitate global sharing of research. However, openness also presents challenges regarding privacy, complex issues, and influencing results that must be addressed.
The document discusses open science and its key aspects. It notes there is widespread agreement that open science affects all stages of the research process through a global, systemic shift involving varied local implementations. It also discusses challenges and opportunities of open science, including the need for: training and skills development; addressing diversity in research cultures; resolving intellectual property issues; and overcoming biases towards well-resourced research. Overall, the document argues open science provides tools for improved research governance if supported through appropriate incentives, infrastructures and monitoring.
Talk given at the Sciencedigital@UNGA75 on 29th September as part of a series of side events to mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly.
Open science refers to making scientific research and data accessible to all. It includes open access to publications, open data, open source software, open notebooks, and citizen science. The European Union supports open science to increase transparency, collaboration and innovation in research. A workshop was held in South Africa to help develop an open science policy, with feedback that the policy will be finalized in September 2018 after additional workshops with European Union involvement. Open science aims to make the entire research process publicly available and reusable to maximize scientific progress.
This document provides an overview of open science, including definitions, motivations, and plans for implementation. It discusses:
1) Definitions of open science from various organizations and perspectives.
2) Motivations for open science, including addressing anomalies in the current scientific publishing system and enabling science to better serve societal needs.
3) National and international plans and roadmaps to transition to open science, focusing on open access, open data, incentives, and skills/training.
Open Science in the Institutional Setting (Presentation by Eva Méndez at DI4...OpenAIRE
This document summarizes Eva Méndez's presentation on open science at her institution. It discusses where the institution currently stands with open science, where it wants to be, and how to get there. Currently, the institution has an open access repository for publications and research data, but no open access mandate. It aims to have 100% of publications open access by 2020 and incentivize sharing of research data and theses. To achieve this, the document proposes creating an Open Science Unit to help with the transition, piloting full open science with volunteer departments, conducting a researcher survey, and participating in open science projects and initiatives. Challenges include cultural change among researchers and aligning internal policies with open science goals.
This document discusses open science and research. It defines open science as making research transparent and accessible at all stages of the research process through open access, open data, open source code and open notebooks. It outlines the key elements of open science like open access publishing, open data repositories, open source software, citizen science and more. It also discusses open science initiatives in Europe, Africa and South Africa and the need for urgent policy actions to promote open science.
Research Data in an Open Science World - Prof. Dr. Eva Mendez, uc3mLEARN Project
This document summarizes a presentation by Prof. Eva Méndez on research data in an open science world from the perspective of a young EU university. The presentation discusses the changing landscape of open science brought about by exponential data growth, new technologies, and public demands for transparency. It addresses challenges for research data management, including skills gaps and lack of standards. The presentation also examines roles and responsibilities for universities to support open science, such as developing infrastructures and policies to incentivize data sharing and changing research cultures. Overall, the document outlines both the opportunities and challenges of open science for research data and universities.
Philosophical Transactions to the Finch report: the events that have defined ...Nick Sheppard
Throughout history the creation and dissemination of knowledge has been influenced by innumerable ‘events’, cultural, technological and political in nature; from the invention of Cuneiform to the rise and fall of Classical civilizations and cultural incubation by the Catholic Church through the European Dark Ages to the Enlightenment. The invention of the printing press is obviously pivotal and in 1665 Henry Oldenburg inaugurated the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (Phil Trans), utilising print technology to establish the principles of scientific priority and peer review that have defined scientific discourse ever since.
In the 20th Century scholarly publishing became exploited by commercial academic publishers and, as journal prices began to outstrip inflation, ultimately resulted in the “serials crisis” of the 1970s. These unsustainable price rises coincided with emergence of the internet and in 1990 Stevan Harnad introduced Psycoloquy, the first peer-reviewed online scientific journal which paved the way for free academic publishing on the web after 1993. In spite of this, and with the World Wide Web over 2 decades old, the traditional subscription model persists, dominated by multinational corporations that generate huge profits and restrict access to scholarly material.
The Open Access movement is a worldwide effort to make scholarly work available online to everyone regardless of their ability to pay for access and in 2011 David Willetts set up a Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings, chaired by Dame Janet Finch and publishing the so called “Finch report” in 2012. The HEFCE policy on OA that comes into effect in 2016 perhaps represents the most recent cultural and political event in this space.
This paper will explore the events that continue to influence academic dissemination and examine how Universities and academics themselves, particularly early career researchers, can utilise modern technology to be part of their own open knowledge event.
Democratizing Knowledge Through Open Science #pdf2016Fundacja ePaństwo
This document discusses open science and why scientific knowledge should be openly shared. It defines open science, open access, open data and other related terms. It explains that open access means online access to peer-reviewed publications and scientific data that is free of charge. Open data refers to data that can be freely used, modified and shared. The document discusses how open science optimizes the impact of research and benefits researchers, industry and citizens. It provides examples of open data repositories and outlines some exceptions when not all data should be openly shared. Finally, it discusses how open scientific knowledge can be achieved through tools like Creative Commons licenses and the differences between gratis and libre open access.
This document provides an introduction and overview of public engagement. It defines public engagement as involving different communication approaches including transmitting information to the public, receiving input from the public, and collaborating with the public. It discusses who the public includes and the purposes of public engagement. Recommended resources on public engagement are also provided.
Open Science in the Global South: A Case of IndiaAnup Kumar Das
"Open Science in the Global South: A Case of India" was presented in the Seminar on Open Science Policy and Technology Access: A Challenge for Developing Countries, on 23 March 2017, at Mangosuthu University of Technology, Durban, South Africa.
This document summarizes Vivien Rolfe's presentation on open teaching and learning at the University of Kingston Teaching Excellence Conference. Rolfe discussed how open educational resources (OERs) can support teaching excellence by building relationships between students and teachers. She provided examples of OERs created at De Montfort University covering various topics like laboratory skills, health resources, and biology courses. Rolfe argued that open approaches to science through collaboration and sharing can help address global problems more effectively than competitive individual research.
EUROSCIENCE is a European association that promotes science and technology. It has regional sections across Europe and organizes the biennial Euroscience Open Forums (ESOFs) to strengthen links between science and society. ESOFs aim to create an integrated European space for science and technology debate and discussion to influence science and technology policies. International collaborations in science are growing as countries invest more in innovation and research related to health and quality of life. Science is becoming more global and collaborative with international teams and shared resources working on issues like genomics and climate change. To fully realize science's potential, the global scientific community will need to develop common standards and harmonize policies across borders.
Role of Open Science in Addressing Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)Anup Kumar Das
Presented in IndiaLICS2017: The 4th IndiaLICS Conference on Innovation for Sustainable Development: Perspectives, Policies and Practices in South Asia, 2nd-4th November, at New Delhi, India.
Open science curriculum for students, June 2019Dag Endresen
Living Norway seminar on Open Science in Trondheim 12th June 2019.
https://livingnorway.no/2019/04/26/living-norway-seminar-2019/
https://www.gbif.no/events/2019/living-norway-seminar.html
This is an updated version of an invited talk I presented at the European Research Council-Brussels (Scientific Seminar): "Love for Science or 'academic prostitution'".
It has been updated to be presented at the The Spanish and Portuguese Relativity Meetings (EREP) on 6th July 2019.
I have included new slides and revised others.
I present a personal revision (sometimes my own vision) of some issues that I consider key for doing Science. It was at the time focused on the expected audience, mainly Scientific Officers with background in different fields of science and scholarship, but also Agency staff.
Abstract: In a recent Special issue of Nature concerning Science Metrics it was claimed that " Research reverts to a kind of 'academic prostitution' in which work is done to please editors and referees rather than to further knowledge."If this is true, funding agencies should try to avoid falling into the trap of their own system. By perpetuating this 'prostitution' they risk not funding the best research but funding the best sold research.
Given the current epoch of economical crisis, where in a quest for funds researchers are forced into competitive game of pandering to panelists, its seems a good time for deep reflection about the entire scientific system.
With this talk I aim to provoke extra critical thinking among the committees who select evaluators, and among the evaluators, who in turn require critical thinking to the candidates when selecting excellent science.
I present some initiatives (e.g. new tracers of impact for the Web era- 'altmetrics'), and on-going projects (e.g. how to move from publishing advertising to publishing knowledge), that might enable us to favor Science over marketing.
Open Science - was kommt nach Open AccessKatja Mayer
This document discusses open science and provides definitions and examples of open access, open research, open data, open source methods, open education, and citizen science. It notes that open science aims to openly share scientific knowledge as early as practical in the research process through sharing, collaboration, transparency, reproducibility, and societal participation. Challenges to open science policies are discussed at various levels from individual work up to international levels. The document advocates working from the bottom up to promote practices like making data and research transparent and accessible, training in collaboration and sharing, and creating spaces to support open scholarship.
Open Access Week was a success with nearly 900 participants from 94 countries, three times more than the previous year. The diversity of participants also increased, with more involvement from academics across many fields. Nobel Prize winner Dr. Harold Varmus spoke in support of open access, saying it enrichs the experience of being a scientist. Events were held around the world and across various mediums to promote open access. While progress has been made, more engagement is still needed within the academic community to advance open access as a new norm in scholarship.
This document discusses the future role of libraries in supporting e-science. It makes three key points:
1. E-science aims to enable new forms of distributed, collaborative, multi-disciplinary and data-intensive science through the use of information technology. This will require libraries to manage large amounts of scientific data and improve access to information.
2. The future "hybrid library" will combine physical and virtual collections, providing organized access to intellectual works wherever they are located. Institutional repositories will be important for publishing data and integrating it into the digital research cycle.
3. Libraries will need skills in data management, curation and providing discovery and access tools for e-scientists. Physical library spaces may also
This presentation was provided by Tiffany Straza of UNESCO, during the two-day "NISO Tech Summit: Reflections Upon The Year of Open Science." Day two was held on October 26, 2023.
El documento discute las limitaciones de las métricas actuales para evaluar la ciencia. En particular, señala que las métricas como el número de artículos en revistas de alto factor de impacto o el número de citas pueden inducir a los científicos a realizar ciencia de una manera que no beneficie realmente el avance del conocimiento. El documento propone alternativas como evaluar una variedad de productos de investigación más allá de solo artículos, y considerar medidas cualitativas del impacto.
Open Science in the Institutional Setting (Presentation by Eva Méndez at DI4...OpenAIRE
This document summarizes Eva Méndez's presentation on open science at her institution. It discusses where the institution currently stands with open science, where it wants to be, and how to get there. Currently, the institution has an open access repository for publications and research data, but no open access mandate. It aims to have 100% of publications open access by 2020 and incentivize sharing of research data and theses. To achieve this, the document proposes creating an Open Science Unit to help with the transition, piloting full open science with volunteer departments, conducting a researcher survey, and participating in open science projects and initiatives. Challenges include cultural change among researchers and aligning internal policies with open science goals.
This document discusses open science and research. It defines open science as making research transparent and accessible at all stages of the research process through open access, open data, open source code and open notebooks. It outlines the key elements of open science like open access publishing, open data repositories, open source software, citizen science and more. It also discusses open science initiatives in Europe, Africa and South Africa and the need for urgent policy actions to promote open science.
Research Data in an Open Science World - Prof. Dr. Eva Mendez, uc3mLEARN Project
This document summarizes a presentation by Prof. Eva Méndez on research data in an open science world from the perspective of a young EU university. The presentation discusses the changing landscape of open science brought about by exponential data growth, new technologies, and public demands for transparency. It addresses challenges for research data management, including skills gaps and lack of standards. The presentation also examines roles and responsibilities for universities to support open science, such as developing infrastructures and policies to incentivize data sharing and changing research cultures. Overall, the document outlines both the opportunities and challenges of open science for research data and universities.
Philosophical Transactions to the Finch report: the events that have defined ...Nick Sheppard
Throughout history the creation and dissemination of knowledge has been influenced by innumerable ‘events’, cultural, technological and political in nature; from the invention of Cuneiform to the rise and fall of Classical civilizations and cultural incubation by the Catholic Church through the European Dark Ages to the Enlightenment. The invention of the printing press is obviously pivotal and in 1665 Henry Oldenburg inaugurated the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (Phil Trans), utilising print technology to establish the principles of scientific priority and peer review that have defined scientific discourse ever since.
In the 20th Century scholarly publishing became exploited by commercial academic publishers and, as journal prices began to outstrip inflation, ultimately resulted in the “serials crisis” of the 1970s. These unsustainable price rises coincided with emergence of the internet and in 1990 Stevan Harnad introduced Psycoloquy, the first peer-reviewed online scientific journal which paved the way for free academic publishing on the web after 1993. In spite of this, and with the World Wide Web over 2 decades old, the traditional subscription model persists, dominated by multinational corporations that generate huge profits and restrict access to scholarly material.
The Open Access movement is a worldwide effort to make scholarly work available online to everyone regardless of their ability to pay for access and in 2011 David Willetts set up a Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings, chaired by Dame Janet Finch and publishing the so called “Finch report” in 2012. The HEFCE policy on OA that comes into effect in 2016 perhaps represents the most recent cultural and political event in this space.
This paper will explore the events that continue to influence academic dissemination and examine how Universities and academics themselves, particularly early career researchers, can utilise modern technology to be part of their own open knowledge event.
Democratizing Knowledge Through Open Science #pdf2016Fundacja ePaństwo
This document discusses open science and why scientific knowledge should be openly shared. It defines open science, open access, open data and other related terms. It explains that open access means online access to peer-reviewed publications and scientific data that is free of charge. Open data refers to data that can be freely used, modified and shared. The document discusses how open science optimizes the impact of research and benefits researchers, industry and citizens. It provides examples of open data repositories and outlines some exceptions when not all data should be openly shared. Finally, it discusses how open scientific knowledge can be achieved through tools like Creative Commons licenses and the differences between gratis and libre open access.
This document provides an introduction and overview of public engagement. It defines public engagement as involving different communication approaches including transmitting information to the public, receiving input from the public, and collaborating with the public. It discusses who the public includes and the purposes of public engagement. Recommended resources on public engagement are also provided.
Open Science in the Global South: A Case of IndiaAnup Kumar Das
"Open Science in the Global South: A Case of India" was presented in the Seminar on Open Science Policy and Technology Access: A Challenge for Developing Countries, on 23 March 2017, at Mangosuthu University of Technology, Durban, South Africa.
This document summarizes Vivien Rolfe's presentation on open teaching and learning at the University of Kingston Teaching Excellence Conference. Rolfe discussed how open educational resources (OERs) can support teaching excellence by building relationships between students and teachers. She provided examples of OERs created at De Montfort University covering various topics like laboratory skills, health resources, and biology courses. Rolfe argued that open approaches to science through collaboration and sharing can help address global problems more effectively than competitive individual research.
EUROSCIENCE is a European association that promotes science and technology. It has regional sections across Europe and organizes the biennial Euroscience Open Forums (ESOFs) to strengthen links between science and society. ESOFs aim to create an integrated European space for science and technology debate and discussion to influence science and technology policies. International collaborations in science are growing as countries invest more in innovation and research related to health and quality of life. Science is becoming more global and collaborative with international teams and shared resources working on issues like genomics and climate change. To fully realize science's potential, the global scientific community will need to develop common standards and harmonize policies across borders.
Role of Open Science in Addressing Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)Anup Kumar Das
Presented in IndiaLICS2017: The 4th IndiaLICS Conference on Innovation for Sustainable Development: Perspectives, Policies and Practices in South Asia, 2nd-4th November, at New Delhi, India.
Open science curriculum for students, June 2019Dag Endresen
Living Norway seminar on Open Science in Trondheim 12th June 2019.
https://livingnorway.no/2019/04/26/living-norway-seminar-2019/
https://www.gbif.no/events/2019/living-norway-seminar.html
This is an updated version of an invited talk I presented at the European Research Council-Brussels (Scientific Seminar): "Love for Science or 'academic prostitution'".
It has been updated to be presented at the The Spanish and Portuguese Relativity Meetings (EREP) on 6th July 2019.
I have included new slides and revised others.
I present a personal revision (sometimes my own vision) of some issues that I consider key for doing Science. It was at the time focused on the expected audience, mainly Scientific Officers with background in different fields of science and scholarship, but also Agency staff.
Abstract: In a recent Special issue of Nature concerning Science Metrics it was claimed that " Research reverts to a kind of 'academic prostitution' in which work is done to please editors and referees rather than to further knowledge."If this is true, funding agencies should try to avoid falling into the trap of their own system. By perpetuating this 'prostitution' they risk not funding the best research but funding the best sold research.
Given the current epoch of economical crisis, where in a quest for funds researchers are forced into competitive game of pandering to panelists, its seems a good time for deep reflection about the entire scientific system.
With this talk I aim to provoke extra critical thinking among the committees who select evaluators, and among the evaluators, who in turn require critical thinking to the candidates when selecting excellent science.
I present some initiatives (e.g. new tracers of impact for the Web era- 'altmetrics'), and on-going projects (e.g. how to move from publishing advertising to publishing knowledge), that might enable us to favor Science over marketing.
Open Science - was kommt nach Open AccessKatja Mayer
This document discusses open science and provides definitions and examples of open access, open research, open data, open source methods, open education, and citizen science. It notes that open science aims to openly share scientific knowledge as early as practical in the research process through sharing, collaboration, transparency, reproducibility, and societal participation. Challenges to open science policies are discussed at various levels from individual work up to international levels. The document advocates working from the bottom up to promote practices like making data and research transparent and accessible, training in collaboration and sharing, and creating spaces to support open scholarship.
Open Access Week was a success with nearly 900 participants from 94 countries, three times more than the previous year. The diversity of participants also increased, with more involvement from academics across many fields. Nobel Prize winner Dr. Harold Varmus spoke in support of open access, saying it enrichs the experience of being a scientist. Events were held around the world and across various mediums to promote open access. While progress has been made, more engagement is still needed within the academic community to advance open access as a new norm in scholarship.
This document discusses the future role of libraries in supporting e-science. It makes three key points:
1. E-science aims to enable new forms of distributed, collaborative, multi-disciplinary and data-intensive science through the use of information technology. This will require libraries to manage large amounts of scientific data and improve access to information.
2. The future "hybrid library" will combine physical and virtual collections, providing organized access to intellectual works wherever they are located. Institutional repositories will be important for publishing data and integrating it into the digital research cycle.
3. Libraries will need skills in data management, curation and providing discovery and access tools for e-scientists. Physical library spaces may also
This presentation was provided by Tiffany Straza of UNESCO, during the two-day "NISO Tech Summit: Reflections Upon The Year of Open Science." Day two was held on October 26, 2023.
Similar to Open Science for sustainability and inclusiveness: the SKA role model (20)
El documento discute las limitaciones de las métricas actuales para evaluar la ciencia. En particular, señala que las métricas como el número de artículos en revistas de alto factor de impacto o el número de citas pueden inducir a los científicos a realizar ciencia de una manera que no beneficie realmente el avance del conocimiento. El documento propone alternativas como evaluar una variedad de productos de investigación más allá de solo artículos, y considerar medidas cualitativas del impacto.
Is the current measure of excellence perverting Science? A Data deluge is com...Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro
Talk prepared for motivating the Session proposed by AMIGA team to SKA Office and organized by William Garnier (SKAO) for ESOF (European Science Forum) held in Toulouse in July 2018
This is an updated version of an invited talk I presented at the European Research Council-Brussels (Scientific Seminar): "Love for Science or 'academic prostitution'".
It has been updated to be presented at the Document Freedom Day 2014, during the activities organized by the Oficina de Software Libre de la Universidad de Granada (26th March).
I have included some new slides and revised others.
I present a personal revision (sometimes my own vision) of some issues that I consider key for doing Science. It was focused on the expected audience, mainly Scientific Officers with background in different fields of science and scholarship, but also Agency staff.
Abstract: In a recent Special issue of Nature concerning Science Metrics it was claimed that " Research reverts to a kind of 'academic prostitution' in which work is done to please editors and referees rather than to further knowledge."If this is true, funding agencies should try to avoid falling into the trap of their own system. By perpetuating this 'prostitution' they risk not funding the best research but funding the best sold research.
Given the current epoch of economical crisis, where in a quest for funds researchers are forced into competitive game of pandering to panelists, its seems a good time for deep reflection about the entire scientific system.
With this talk I aim to provoke extra critical thinking among the committees who select evaluators, and among the evaluators, who in turn require critical thinking to the candidates when selecting excellent science.
I will present some initiatives (e.g. new tracers of impact for the Web era- 'altmetrics'), and on-going projects (e.g. how to move from publishing advertising to publishing knowledge), that might enable us to favor Science over marketing.
This is an updated version of an invited talk I presented at the European Research Council-Brussels (Scientific Seminar): "Love for Science or 'academic prostitution'".
It has been updated to be presented at my home institution (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía - CSIC) in a scientific seminar (14 June 2013).
I have included some new slides and revised others.
I present a personal revision (sometimes my own vision) of some issues that I consider key for doing Science. It was focused on the expected audience, mainly Scientific Officers with background in different fields of science and scholarship, but also Agency staff.
Abstract: In a recent Special issue of Nature concerning Science Metrics it was claimed that " Research reverts to a kind of 'academic prostitution' in which work is done to please editors and referees rather than to further knowledge."If this is true, funding agencies should try to avoid falling into the trap of their own system. By perpetuating this 'prostitution' they risk not funding the best research but funding the best sold research.
Given the current epoch of economical crisis, where in a quest for funds researchers are forced into competitive game of pandering to panelists, its seems a good time for deep reflection about the entire scientific system.
With this talk I aim to provoke extra critical thinking among the committees who select evaluators, and among the evaluators, who in turn require critical thinking to the candidates when selecting excellent science.
I will present some initiatives (e.g. new tracers of impact for the Web era- 'altmetrics'), and on-going projects (e.g. how to move from publishing advertising to publishing knowledge), that might enable us to favor Science over marketing.
Invited talk at the European Research Council-Brussels (Scientific Seminar, 12 April 2013): "Love for Science or 'academic prostitution'". In this talk I present a personal revision (sometimes my own vision) of some issues that I consider key for doing Science. It was focused on the expected audience, mainly Scientific Officers with background in different fields of science and scholarship, but also Agency staff.
Abstract: In a recent Special issue of Nature concerning Science Metrics it was claimed that " Research reverts to a kind of 'academic prostitution' in which work is done to please editors and referees rather than to further knowledge."If this is true, funding agencies should try to avoid falling into the trap of their own system. By perpetuating this 'prostitution' they risk not funding the best research but funding the best sold research.
Given the current epoch of economical crisis, where in a quest for funds researchers are forced into competitive game of pandering to panelists, its seems a good time for deep reflection about the entire scientific system.
With this talk I aim to provoke extra critical thinking among the committees who select evaluators, and among the evaluators, who in turn require critical thinking to the candidates when selecting excellent science.
I will present some initiatives (e.g. new tracers of impact for the Web era- 'altmetrics'), and on-going projects (e.g. how to move from publishing advertising to publishing knowledge), that might enable us to favor Science over marketing.
Did you know that drowning is a leading cause of unintentional death among young children? According to recent data, children aged 1-4 years are at the highest risk. Let's raise awareness and take steps to prevent these tragic incidents. Supervision, barriers around pools, and learning CPR can make a difference. Stay safe this summer!
Discover the cutting-edge telemetry solution implemented for Alan Wake 2 by Remedy Entertainment in collaboration with AWS. This comprehensive presentation dives into our objectives, detailing how we utilized advanced analytics to drive gameplay improvements and player engagement.
Key highlights include:
Primary Goals: Implementing gameplay and technical telemetry to capture detailed player behavior and game performance data, fostering data-driven decision-making.
Tech Stack: Leveraging AWS services such as EKS for hosting, WAF for security, Karpenter for instance optimization, S3 for data storage, and OpenTelemetry Collector for data collection. EventBridge and Lambda were used for data compression, while Glue ETL and Athena facilitated data transformation and preparation.
Data Utilization: Transforming raw data into actionable insights with technologies like Glue ETL (PySpark scripts), Glue Crawler, and Athena, culminating in detailed visualizations with Tableau.
Achievements: Successfully managing 700 million to 1 billion events per month at a cost-effective rate, with significant savings compared to commercial solutions. This approach has enabled simplified scaling and substantial improvements in game design, reducing player churn through targeted adjustments.
Community Engagement: Enhanced ability to engage with player communities by leveraging precise data insights, despite having a small community management team.
This presentation is an invaluable resource for professionals in game development, data analytics, and cloud computing, offering insights into how telemetry and analytics can revolutionize player experience and game performance optimization.
06-20-2024-AI Camp Meetup-Unstructured Data and Vector DatabasesTimothy Spann
Tech Talk: Unstructured Data and Vector Databases
Speaker: Tim Spann (Zilliz)
Abstract: In this session, I will discuss the unstructured data and the world of vector databases, we will see how they different from traditional databases. In which cases you need one and in which you probably don’t. I will also go over Similarity Search, where do you get vectors from and an example of a Vector Database Architecture. Wrapping up with an overview of Milvus.
Introduction
Unstructured data, vector databases, traditional databases, similarity search
Vectors
Where, What, How, Why Vectors? We’ll cover a Vector Database Architecture
Introducing Milvus
What drives Milvus' Emergence as the most widely adopted vector database
Hi Unstructured Data Friends!
I hope this video had all the unstructured data processing, AI and Vector Database demo you needed for now. If not, there’s a ton more linked below.
My source code is available here
https://github.com/tspannhw/
Let me know in the comments if you liked what you saw, how I can improve and what should I show next? Thanks, hope to see you soon at a Meetup in Princeton, Philadelphia, New York City or here in the Youtube Matrix.
Get Milvused!
https://milvus.io/
Read my Newsletter every week!
https://github.com/tspannhw/FLiPStackWeekly/blob/main/141-10June2024.md
For more cool Unstructured Data, AI and Vector Database videos check out the Milvus vector database videos here
https://www.youtube.com/@MilvusVectorDatabase/videos
Unstructured Data Meetups -
https://www.meetup.com/unstructured-data-meetup-new-york/
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Open Science for sustainability and inclusiveness: the SKA role model
1. Open Science for sustainability
and inclusiveness:
the SKA role model
Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro
Susana Sánchez, Julián Garrido
IAA-CSIC
SKAO Speaker Series – 17th June 2021
Credits: SKA Organisation
3. Open Science: a new concept?
• Too many adjectives for science:
excellent, high quality, trustable, … Open
4. • Too many adjectives for science:
excellent, high quality, trustable, … Open
Scientific Reproducibility is a fundamental
principle of the Scientific Method, a
process pioneered by Ibn al-Haytham.
In the XIth century, he proposed that a
hypothesis must be supported by
experiments based on confirmable
procedures or mathematical evidence.
Made special emphasis on reproducibility
of results.
• Let’s go back 1000 years in time…
Open Science: a new concept?
Ibn al-Haytham (965 – 1040)
5. • Too many adjectives for science:
excellent, high quality, trustable, … Open
Descartes reminded us in the 17th century
that Scientific Reproducibility is a
fundamental principle of the Scientific
Method, and laid the foundations for the
Philosophy of Science
• Or let’s go back 383 years in
time…
• Science = Scientific Method = Reproducible = Open!
Open Science: a new concept?
6. Open Science: but then we already follow it, right?
• We are scientists! We (want to) follow the Scientific Method!
2016
7. Open Science: but then we already follow it, right?
• We are scientists! We (want to) follow the Scientific Method!
Questionnaire on reproducibility (1500
scientists)
• 70% of researchers have tried and failed to
reproduce another scientist's experiments
• > 50% have failed to reproduce their own ones!
• Chemistry: 90% (60%)
• Biology: 80% (60%)
• Physics and engineering: 70% (50%)
• Medicine: 70% (60%)
• Earth and environmental science: 60% (40%)
2016
8. Open Science: but then we already follow it, right?
• We are scientists! We (want to) follow the Scientific Method!
2016
Aha!
So you don’t
empathise?
Questionnaire on reproducibility (1500
scientists)
• 70% of researchers have tried and failed to
reproduce another scientist's experiments
• > 50% have failed to reproduce their own ones!
• Chemistry: 90% (60%)
• Biology: 80% (60%)
• Physics and engineering: 70% (50%)
• Medicine: 70% (60%)
• Earth and environmental science: 60% (40%)
9. Open Science: but then we already follow it, right?
• We are scientists! We (want to) follow the Scientific Method!
2016
Aha!
So you don’t
empathise?
Maybe with this?
Questionnaire on reproducibility (1500
scientists)
• 70% of researchers have tried and failed to
reproduce another scientist's experiments
• > 50% have failed to reproduce their own ones!
• Chemistry: 90% (60%)
• Biology: 80% (60%)
• Physics and engineering: 70% (50%)
• Medicine: 70% (60%)
• Earth and environmental science: 60% (40%)
10. Open Science: then what happened since 1637?
• Moving beyond the PDF
40% Knowledge Burying in paper publication =
Rest In Paper
(S. Bechhofer 2011, Research Objects: Towards Exchange and Reuse of
Digital Knowledge)
http://www.clipartkid.com/rip-cliparts/
11. Open Science: then what happened since 1637?
• Moving beyond the PDF
http://www.clipartkid.com/rip-cliparts/
Moving from narratives (last 300 yrs) to the
actual output of research is not so easy
40% Knowledge Burying in paper publication =
Rest In Paper
(S. Bechhofer 2011, Research Objects: Towards Exchange and Reuse of
Digital Knowledge)
In practice
12. …indeed is not so easy
Big Data
preservation
& transfer
Primary (raw) data can not be
accessed in an automatic way
Standarized
catalogues
Processed data and images are only
publicly available in the paper PDF
Findable
code
Repositories
There are some scripts for processing
the data on a server somewhere, but
no one remembers where
Software
environment
preservation
The code is in a public repository, but
good luck trying to install/execute it.
• New advanced tools to support scientists to fulfill FAIR principles
• Effort is not always rewarded
REQUIRES
See Jones et al. talk at SKA Science Meeting 2019
FAIR:
Findable
Accesible
Interoperable
Reusable
13. Open Science for sustainability and inclusiveness
Open Science represents an approach to research that is collaborative,
transparent and accessible
Open Science definition, European Commission, 2017, doi: 10.2777/75255
14. Open Science for sustainability and inclusiveness
Remember: Open Science started bottom-up
with manifestos authored by large sections of the scientific community
(Altmetrics-2010, DORA-2012, Metric Tide - 2015, Leiden Manifesto-2015, etc)
(Astronomy = IVOA – 2002)
Open Science represents an approach to research that is collaborative,
transparent and accessible
Open Science definition, European Commission, 2017, doi: 10.2777/75255
15. Open Science represents an approach to research that is collaborative,
transparent and accessible
Open Science definition, European Commission, 2017, doi: 10.2777/75255
Open Science for sustainability and inclusiveness
UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science
At the 40th session of UNESCO’s General Conference, 193 Members States
tasked the Organization with the development of an international standard-
setting instrument on Open Science in the form of a UNESCO Recommendation
on Open Science to be adopted by Member States in 2021.
16. Open Science for sustainability and inclusiveness
“Africa Initiative 4th Pillar: Capacities for science and higher education,
particularly for women and youth”
Open science included to support this pillar
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/research_and_innovation/strategy_on_research_and_innovation/documents/ec_rtd_com2021-252.pdf
EC Communication (18th May 2021) to the European Parliament, the Council, the
European economic and social committee, and the Comittee of the regions, on the
Global Approach to Research and Innovation
Europe's strategy for international cooperation in a changing world
“It will serve as a guide in implementing the international dimension of HE and its
synergies with other EU programmes, in particular the NDICI- Global Europe”
Commitment with “Academic freedom, Research ethics and integrity, Gender equality,
diversity and inclusiveness, Open data and open science, Standards, Evidence-informed
policymaking”
17. Open Science for sustainability and inclusiveness
“Africa Initiative 4th Pillar: Capacities for science and higher education,
particularly for women and youth”
Open science included to support this pillar
EC Communication (18th May 2021) to the European Parliament, the Council, the
European economic and social committee, and the Comittee of the regions, on the
Global Approach to Research and Innovation
Europe's strategy for international cooperation in a changing world
“It will serve as a guide in implementing the international dimension of HE and its
synergies with other EU programmes, in particular the NDICI- Global Europe”
Commitment with “Academic freedom, Research ethics and integrity, Gender equality,
diversity and inclusiveness, Open data and open science, Standards, Evidence-informed
policymaking”
“Open Science embodies the need to transform, open and
democratize the entire knowledge generation to ensure that every
scientific challenge is faced and really drives and allows the
achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals”
UNESCO and Open Science (2020) [1]
[1]https://en.unesco.org/news/unesco-launches-global-consultation-develop-standard-setting-instrument-open-science
18. Open Science for sustainability and inclusiveness
Science hidden behind paywall barriers
• Free access to research sources to the whole scientific
community = limitations to science progress
• OS = Data and results more accessible and reliable
• OS = Promotion of scholarly exchange of ideas
• OS = Avoid duplication
Acceleration of knowledge transfer to Society, pandemics,
sanitary crisis
• Speed up building of skills
• Teaching, e.g. how to access public archives,
fostering collaborative practices
• Citizen science
19. Open Science for sustainability and inclusiveness
Promote equity, diversity and inclusion
• All previous items +
• A tool enabling an objective evaluation of work
• Barriers are even more emphasized to scientist women in
places where their contribution tend to be ignored or
anonymized.
21. Open Science in the Big Data era
We are in a race to exploit ever larger datasets
in our quest for “efficiency”
we risk forgetting about reproducibility
The era of Big Data is beginning across sciences
Today is the time to ask
What kind of research want mega-science
infrastructures to do in tomorrow’s future?
22. The Square Kilometre Array
SKA1 Observatory
SKA Fact sheets. August 2018. skatelescope.org
The SKA Regional Centres, the core of the SKA Science
Credits: AENEAS
project
Credits: skatelescope.irg
23. Access to data products, tools and processing power to generate and analize
Advanced Data Products (ADPs)
The SKA Regional Centre Network
The core
of SKA
science
24. Access to data products, tools and processing power to generate and analize
Advanced Data Products (ADPs)
The SKA Regional Centre Network
The core
of SKA
science
Global shift in research practices
26. The SKA and the Open Science
Prospectus - Page 32
27. The SKA and the Open Science
Prospectus - Page 32
28. “Open Science, based on the precept of making scientific
research collaborative, transparent and accessible to all, is
rooted in SKA’s foundational principles. So is the related
concept of scientific reproducibility, a fundamental aspect of
the modern Scientific Method since the 17th century allowing
independent teams to have access to methodology and tools
to be able to confirm experiments and validate results.”
Reproducibility as a metric of success
Adoption of Open Science values
“Reproducibility of SKA science data products. This
metric will measure how complete the workflow
description is that is linked to each SKA data product.
[…] must reflect completeness of the provenance
information for each data product and accessibility of
the software used. This is related to how well SKA
science data products adhere to the FAIR principles .”
ENDORSED by the Council: Construction
Proposal (CP) and Observatory
Establishment and Delivery Plan (OEDP)
The SKA and the Open Science
3. Impact of the SKA
3.3.2 Open SCience
6. Observatory operations
6.1.2 Scientific success metrics
29. 2017-2019
http://www.aeneas2020.eu
Applying Open Science to build a
network of European SRCs
SKA is contributing to build the
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
Addressing the Open Science challenges
shared by ESFRI facilities and other pan-
European research infrastructures in
Astronomy and Particle Physics
2019-2023 https://projectescape.eu/
30. The challenge from different perspectives
Implementation of Open, reproducible science
is challenging, even more in this new
framework:
Individual users
Large teams
Service providers
Publishers
Evaluators/Funding
agencies
new roles new perspectives
31. Data to the desktop: “individual scientist”
• I have the best code, which I know how to use and can do special things
• I do not trust any pipeline that you made
• partly because I know better how to do it
• partly because I read the news and there is a reproducibility crisis
• well, and I can hardly reproduce the results of my own papers some years later...
• In general I want full control of the software and of the computational
environment
About trust
32. Computation to data, providers perspective: Data Centres
About technology
• We need to install your software in our platform. Can we trust it?
Can we run it? Environment, dependencies, etc
• Hey, we are offering services to the community, computation +
tools. We would be grateful if you allow us to share it with other
users (with proper credit)
• Mmmm, sharing is great, but, putting the software in the platform
is not enough: you need to provide the context for people to be
able to rerun the software on the same or other data
33. Large alliances of scientists
About metrics of research careers
• We have tools to generate Advanced Data Products, and we will put
them there where the storage and computation is (Data Centres)
• But... we put effort on it, what would we gain if we make the
*additional effort* to make it reusable? If we make it, then we will
pave the way to competitors
• Well, maybe we will share in 4 yrs time (PhD typical time)
34. Publishers
Publishing models
• Will we need different profiles of referees to evaluate the
scientific discussion together with the data quality and the
methods (aka. Reproducibility)?
• If the data and the methods (tools) will be in Data Centres, will
our referees need to become a “user” of the Data Centres to be
able to validate a paper?
• Will we be able to engage so many referees as may be needed?
• Will we need to validate the data, the tools, and the scientific
analysis separetely?
35. Policy makers / funding agencies
Evaluation
• How to measure reproducibility?
• How to weight it and/or aggregate with other indicators?
36. The Challenge: extraction of Scientific Knowledge
Huge and complex data volumes
Large teams distributed globally
A shared challenge for data-intensive research
Computing / storage / network / human resources will be needed:
• Efficient exploitation of Distributed Computing Infrastructures
• Large international alliances of scientists
• Tools to enhance scientific collaboration
• Platforms to share data, methods and knowledge
Open
Science
&
e-Science
Open Science is the Aim and also the Mean
37. Supporting Open Science in the SKA Regional Centres
A network of interoperable SRCs should provide:
– access to project data / storage capacity for archiving SKA data
– place for software analysis, modelling, visualisation, algorithm
development / computational capacity, validation
– All this through a platform that
– is transparent and a location agnostic interface for users
– enables collaborative science
– User support (to enable scientific exploitation of the SKA data), training
the new generation of radioastronomers, citizen science
38. Key ingredients of the SRCs to support Open Science
Science
Gateway
New
Metrics
Workflows and
provenance
Reproducible
Notebooks
Standards for data
interoperability
(IVOA)
access to project data
place for software
analysis, visualisation
Location agnostic platform
Collaborative Science
User support and training
Open
to
society
Citizen Science
39. The SRCSC and its Working Groups
• May 2019: Kick-off SKA Regional Centre Steering Committee (SRCSC)
Define and create a long-term operational partnership between the SKA
Observatory and an ensemble of independently-resourced SRCs
WG4 Archive/VO/FAIR: provide a functional and persistent SKA Science
archive that allows data discovery, access, use and reuse, new science and
scientific reproducibility as well as data provenance all along the full data
cycle. FAIR and VO services, interoperating within the IVOA ecosystem
•November 2020: SRCSC Working Groups
WG0-6: Architecture, Data Logistics, Operations, Processing/WorkFlows,
Archive/VO/FAIR, Compute and Science User engagement.
40. SKA: a mega-science infrastructure engaged with trustable,
reproducible science, going beyond numbers of papers/citations:
pursuing the Scientific Method, working together
41. SKA: a mega-science infrastructure engaged with trustable,
reproducible science, going beyond numbers of papers/citations:
pursuing the Scientific Method, working together
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42. Difficult? yes!
But this word doesn’t
seem to intimidate
those aiming to build
the SKA
SKA: a mega-science infrastructure engaged with trustable,
reproducible science, going beyond numbers of papers/citations:
pursuing the Scientific Method, working together
43. Difficult? yes!
But this word doesn’t
seem to intimidate
those aiming to build
the SKA
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SKA: a mega-science infrastructure engaged with trustable,
reproducible science, going beyond numbers of papers/citations:
pursuing the Scientific Method, working together