The slides that will accompany my live webcast for OpenCon 2014 attendees, all about open data in research. The benefits, the how to (both legally & technically), examples, pitfalls, and the future of open research data.
These slides run through an Introduction to Open Access and the policy landscape surrounding it. These slides can be seen being presented: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YwASIziPIQ
Scott Edmunds slides for class 8 from the HKU Data Curation (module MLIM7350 from the Faculty of Education) course covering open science and data publishing
A talk given at the Bodleian libaries 'From cataloguing to metadata' event in November 2011
Personal opinions on changing trends in library metadata creation and consumption. Also considers the challenges and rewards associated providing and licensing data for re-use by machines and the people that program them.
My talk given at the 2nd meeting of the Licences for Europe Stakeholder dialogue meeting in Brussels (8th March, 2013), Working Group 4: Text & Data Mining.
context: http://ec.europa.eu/licences-for-europe-dialogue/en/content/about-site
These slides run through an Introduction to Open Access and the policy landscape surrounding it. These slides can be seen being presented: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YwASIziPIQ
Scott Edmunds slides for class 8 from the HKU Data Curation (module MLIM7350 from the Faculty of Education) course covering open science and data publishing
A talk given at the Bodleian libaries 'From cataloguing to metadata' event in November 2011
Personal opinions on changing trends in library metadata creation and consumption. Also considers the challenges and rewards associated providing and licensing data for re-use by machines and the people that program them.
My talk given at the 2nd meeting of the Licences for Europe Stakeholder dialogue meeting in Brussels (8th March, 2013), Working Group 4: Text & Data Mining.
context: http://ec.europa.eu/licences-for-europe-dialogue/en/content/about-site
Open Access and Research Integrity Workshop Introduction - 2014Right to Research
A presentation given at the IFMSA August Meeting Pre-GA 2014 talking about Open Access and what students can do. More can be found at www.righttoresearch.org/learn/IFMSAAM2014
CUA Humanities Lecture on Scholarly Communications LSC634 Fall2014Kimberly Hoffman
Lecture on Scholarly Communications for CUA LSC634 students Sept. 29, 2014. Activities noted by * include mining new scholarly communications job descriptions; determining open access, self archiving and author rights of individual journals using SHERPA/RoMEO; and finding bibliometrics like JIF and h-index that drive publishing.
Open access for researchers, policy makers and research managers - Short ver...Iryna Kuchma
Presented at Open Access: Maximising Research Impact, April 23 2009, New Bulgarian University Library, Sofia. Open access for researchers: enlarged audience, citation impact, tenure and promotion. Open access for policy makers and research managers:
new tools to manage a university’s image and impact. How to maximize the visibility of research publications, improve the impact and influence of the work, disseminate the results of the research, showcase the quality of the research in the Universities and research institutions, better measure and manage the research in the institution, collect and curate the digital outputs, generate new knowledge from existing findings, enable and encourage collaboration, bring savings to the higher education sector and better return on investment. What are the key functions for research libraries?
Information Sources for Research by V. Sriram in National Webinar on Fostering Interdisciplinary Research in Young Minds, St. Teresa’s College, Ernakulam. India. 26th November 2020.
Slides from Thursday 2nd August 2018 - Data in the Scholarly Communications Life Cycle Course which is part of the FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute.
Presenter - Natasha Simons
Tips and tools for common web searching tasks.
Companion web site available at <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/8fold/">http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/8fold/</a>
Pay special attention to <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/8fold/refine4.html">http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/8fold/refine4.html</a>
Eight (8) tips for making your general web searching more powerful, with search examples. Organized for each step to build on the previous, techniques that can be combined and interwoven. Companion web site available at <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/8fold/">http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/8fold/</a>
The world of research data: when should data be closed, shared or openheila1
That research data should be shared with the rest of the world has become almost evangelical in nature. This paper will try to answer the following questions:
• What are the (real) reasons for ‘forcing’ scientists to open their data, even if they are not ready to do so?
• What right have non-scientists (and scientists) to push indiscriminately for the sharing of data without taking the nuances of research into consideration?
Physical characteristics of research data before it can be shared
Modes of data sharing
Case study: public humiliation in the name of Open Science
Advantages and disadvantages of sharing research data
AI to the rescue of open research articles?
In conclusion
SciDataCon 2014 Data Papers and their applications workshop - NPG Scientific ...Susanna-Assunta Sansone
Part of the SciDataCon14 workshop on "Data Papers and their applications" run by myself and Brian Hole to help attendees understand current data-publishing journals and trends and help them understand the editorial processes on NPG's Scientific Data and Ubiquity's Open Health Data.
A open science presentation focusing on the benefits to be gained and basic practices to follow. This was given on behalf of FOSTER at the Open Science Boos(t)camp event at KU Leuven on 24th October 2014.
ContentMining (aka Text and Data Mining TDM) is beneficial, legal in the UK and a few other countries. Many groups in Europe are looking to make it legal there as well but there are many vested interests who oppose it.
This short presentation shows the benefits of content mining, some of the technology, and the way that it can be used and promotedby communities of practice. I urge all attendees at CopyCamp and also the wider world to press for liberalization of Copyright
ContentMining for France and Europe; Lessons from 2 years in UKpetermurrayrust
I have spend 2 years carrying out Content Mining (aka Text and Data Mining) in the UK under the 2014 "Hargreaves" exception. This talk was given in Paris, to ADBU , after France had passed the law of the numeric Republique. I illustrate what worked in what did not and why and offer ideas to France and Europe
Research data management: a tale of two paradigms: Martin Donnelly
Presentation I was supposed to give at "Scotland’s Collections and the Digital Humanities" workshop in Edinburgh on May 2nd 2014. Illness prevented it, but my heroic DCC colleague Jonathan Rans stepped up and delivered the presentation on my behalf.
PLUTo: Phyloinformatic Literature Unlocking Tools
A BBSRC-funded project to find phylogenetic trees in the literature, and make their underlying data re-usable again by extracting it & re-releasing it from the figure image as open, re-usable data
Open Access and Research Integrity Workshop Introduction - 2014Right to Research
A presentation given at the IFMSA August Meeting Pre-GA 2014 talking about Open Access and what students can do. More can be found at www.righttoresearch.org/learn/IFMSAAM2014
CUA Humanities Lecture on Scholarly Communications LSC634 Fall2014Kimberly Hoffman
Lecture on Scholarly Communications for CUA LSC634 students Sept. 29, 2014. Activities noted by * include mining new scholarly communications job descriptions; determining open access, self archiving and author rights of individual journals using SHERPA/RoMEO; and finding bibliometrics like JIF and h-index that drive publishing.
Open access for researchers, policy makers and research managers - Short ver...Iryna Kuchma
Presented at Open Access: Maximising Research Impact, April 23 2009, New Bulgarian University Library, Sofia. Open access for researchers: enlarged audience, citation impact, tenure and promotion. Open access for policy makers and research managers:
new tools to manage a university’s image and impact. How to maximize the visibility of research publications, improve the impact and influence of the work, disseminate the results of the research, showcase the quality of the research in the Universities and research institutions, better measure and manage the research in the institution, collect and curate the digital outputs, generate new knowledge from existing findings, enable and encourage collaboration, bring savings to the higher education sector and better return on investment. What are the key functions for research libraries?
Information Sources for Research by V. Sriram in National Webinar on Fostering Interdisciplinary Research in Young Minds, St. Teresa’s College, Ernakulam. India. 26th November 2020.
Slides from Thursday 2nd August 2018 - Data in the Scholarly Communications Life Cycle Course which is part of the FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute.
Presenter - Natasha Simons
Tips and tools for common web searching tasks.
Companion web site available at <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/8fold/">http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/8fold/</a>
Pay special attention to <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/8fold/refine4.html">http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/8fold/refine4.html</a>
Eight (8) tips for making your general web searching more powerful, with search examples. Organized for each step to build on the previous, techniques that can be combined and interwoven. Companion web site available at <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/8fold/">http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/8fold/</a>
The world of research data: when should data be closed, shared or openheila1
That research data should be shared with the rest of the world has become almost evangelical in nature. This paper will try to answer the following questions:
• What are the (real) reasons for ‘forcing’ scientists to open their data, even if they are not ready to do so?
• What right have non-scientists (and scientists) to push indiscriminately for the sharing of data without taking the nuances of research into consideration?
Physical characteristics of research data before it can be shared
Modes of data sharing
Case study: public humiliation in the name of Open Science
Advantages and disadvantages of sharing research data
AI to the rescue of open research articles?
In conclusion
SciDataCon 2014 Data Papers and their applications workshop - NPG Scientific ...Susanna-Assunta Sansone
Part of the SciDataCon14 workshop on "Data Papers and their applications" run by myself and Brian Hole to help attendees understand current data-publishing journals and trends and help them understand the editorial processes on NPG's Scientific Data and Ubiquity's Open Health Data.
A open science presentation focusing on the benefits to be gained and basic practices to follow. This was given on behalf of FOSTER at the Open Science Boos(t)camp event at KU Leuven on 24th October 2014.
ContentMining (aka Text and Data Mining TDM) is beneficial, legal in the UK and a few other countries. Many groups in Europe are looking to make it legal there as well but there are many vested interests who oppose it.
This short presentation shows the benefits of content mining, some of the technology, and the way that it can be used and promotedby communities of practice. I urge all attendees at CopyCamp and also the wider world to press for liberalization of Copyright
ContentMining for France and Europe; Lessons from 2 years in UKpetermurrayrust
I have spend 2 years carrying out Content Mining (aka Text and Data Mining) in the UK under the 2014 "Hargreaves" exception. This talk was given in Paris, to ADBU , after France had passed the law of the numeric Republique. I illustrate what worked in what did not and why and offer ideas to France and Europe
Research data management: a tale of two paradigms: Martin Donnelly
Presentation I was supposed to give at "Scotland’s Collections and the Digital Humanities" workshop in Edinburgh on May 2nd 2014. Illness prevented it, but my heroic DCC colleague Jonathan Rans stepped up and delivered the presentation on my behalf.
PLUTo: Phyloinformatic Literature Unlocking Tools
A BBSRC-funded project to find phylogenetic trees in the literature, and make their underlying data re-usable again by extracting it & re-releasing it from the figure image as open, re-usable data
Open scholarship [a FOSTER open science talk]Ross Mounce
A talk by Dr Ross Mounce, given at the FOSTER Open Science event 4th September, King's College London http://www.fosteropenscience.eu/event/foster-discovering-open-practices-pgr-and-early-career-researchers-0
How can repositories support the text-mining of their content and why? Nancy Pontika
Co-presented with Petr Knoth http://www.slideshare.net/petrknoth/ at the "Mining Repositories: How to assist the research and academic community on their text and data mining needs" workshop, which took place at the 11th International Conference on Open Repositories, Monday 13 June 2016.
Subscription costs versus open access costs, & Dissolving journals' boundariesAlex Holcombe
draft of talk for Reclaiming the Knowledge Commons http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/reclaiming-the-knowledge-commons-the-ethics-of-academic-publishing-and-the-futures-of-research-tickets-17560178968
SocialCite makes its debut at the HighWire Press meetingKent Anderson
A new service designed to allow readers and researchers to comment on the appropriateness, quality, and type of citations made in the literature made its debut at the HighWire Press Publishers Meeting yesterday.
Specimen-level mining: bringing knowledge back 'home' to the Natural History ...Ross Mounce
A talk given at the Geological Society of London, UK on 2016/03/09 as part of the Lyell meeting on Palaeoinformatics. http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/lyell16 #lyell16
Open Access for Early Career ResearchersRoss Mounce
My talk for the University of Bath Open Access Week session; 23rd October 2013.
http://www.bath.ac.uk/learningandteaching/rdu/courses/pgskills/modules/RP00335.htm
Talk to EBI Industry group on Open Software for chemical and pharmaceutical sciences. Covers examples of chemistry , wit demos, and argues that all public knowledge should be Openly accessible
Open access (OA) to scholarly literature recently hit a major milestone: Half of all research articles published become open access, either immediately or after an embargo period. Are the articles you read among them? What about the articles you write? Are the journals to which you submit open-access friendly? What about the journals for which you peer review? Are there any reasons why the public should not have access to the results of taxpayer-funded research?
In this slideshow, Jill Cirasella (Associate Librarian for Public Services and Scholarly Communication, Graduate Center, CUNY) explains the motivation for OA, describes the details of OA, and differentiates between publishing in open access journals (“gold” OA) and self-archiving works in OA repositories (“green” OA). She also dispels persistent myths about OA and examines some of the challenges to OA.
Fifty shades of green and gold: open access to scholarly informationhierohiero
Presentation for Urban Research Utrecht, a research school at Utrecht University, on Open Access to scholarly information in geography and planning, focussing of advantages, disadvantges, various forms, costs and actions of stakeholders
Presentation given at 2nd DPHEP Collaboration Workshop at CERN on 12 March 2017. The talk reflects on machine-actionable DMP use cases developed during an IDCC workshop (http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/workshops/postcard-future-tools-and-services-perfect-dmp-world) and activities underway or planned by the DCC and UC3 teams. These will be implemented in the DMPRoadmap codebase to pilot in our respective tools, DMPonline and DMPTool
The State of Open Data Report by @figshare.
A selection of analyses and articles about open data, curated by Figshare
Foreword by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt
OCTOBER 2016
Open Data in a Big Data World: easy to say, but hard to do?LEARN Project
Presentation at 3rd LEARN workshop on Research Data Management, “Make research data management policies work”
Helsinki, 28 June 2016, by Sarah Callaghan, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Scott Edmunds slides for class 8 from the HKU Data Curation (module MLIM7350 from the Faculty of Education) course covering science data, medical data and ethics, and the FAIR data principles.
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
"Open Science, Open Data" training for participants of Software Writing Skills for Your Research - Workshop for Proficient, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, December 16, 2015
Thinking about Open Science practices, data sharing and lifetime, and communication from Climate Scientists. Slides based on a presentation given at the Lunchtime talk sessions from the MetOS Section, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, November 12th 2015.
An introduction to open science, why it's important and how to do it. This presentation was given at the European Medical Students Association (EMSA) event, 'Open Access in Action' in Berlin on 14th-15th September 2015
My 2 slides for #nfdp13
It was a 5min talk (and I was told strictly no more than 3 slides!)
The future of data sharing involves educating future generations in digital techniques, tools & values e.g. http://www.opensciencetraining.com/
Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
Ethnobotany in herbal drug evaluation,
Impact of Ethnobotany in traditional medicine,
New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
Reverse Pharmacology.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
How to Create Map Views in the Odoo 17 ERPCeline George
The map views are useful for providing a geographical representation of data. They allow users to visualize and analyze the data in a more intuitive manner.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Students, digital devices and success - Andreas Schleicher - 27 May 2024..pptxEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents at the OECD webinar ‘Digital devices in schools: detrimental distraction or secret to success?’ on 27 May 2024. The presentation was based on findings from PISA 2022 results and the webinar helped launch the PISA in Focus ‘Managing screen time: How to protect and equip students against distraction’ https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/managing-screen-time_7c225af4-en and the OECD Education Policy Perspective ‘Students, digital devices and success’ can be found here - https://oe.cd/il/5yV
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
How to Split Bills in the Odoo 17 POS ModuleCeline George
Bills have a main role in point of sale procedure. It will help to track sales, handling payments and giving receipts to customers. Bill splitting also has an important role in POS. For example, If some friends come together for dinner and if they want to divide the bill then it is possible by POS bill splitting. This slide will show how to split bills in odoo 17 POS.
1. Intro to Open Data
for OpenCon 2014
November 4, 2014
Ross Mounce, Ph.D. (@RMounce)
Postdoc, University of Bath
2. These slides are on Slideshare here:
bit.ly/opendataintro
All textual content is
3. With thanks to SPARC & R2RC for organising this webcast series
Previous talks in this series have been given on
Open Access http://youtu.be/5YwASIziPIQ
and
Open Educational Resources http://youtu.be/5Dauh_PeAzI
4. Outline
●Why care about data?
●Definition: exactly what is open data?
●Open data in scholarship, and beyond...
● Aspects of open data, inc. HowTo
● Legal , Technical
● Privacy! Not all data should be be open
● The 5 stars of open data
5. Why care about data?
Data is absolutely fundamental to most research
Science without data isn't science *
*Entirely theoretical, data-free contributions to science are possible, but rare
6.
7. By sharing data we can see further
Data are the building blocks of
science
Shared, re-used data allow us to
more rigorously test hypotheses;
“to see further”
...and to do it all more quickly and
easily.
Also, for validation & reproducibility
(more of which later...)
8. What exactly is open data?
Open means anyone can
freely access, use, modify,
and share for any purpose
(subject, at most, to requirements
that preserve provenance and
openness)
From http://opendefinition.org/,
see http://opendefinition.org/od/ for more detail
9. Legally, what is open data?
There are a great many open knowledge definition (OKD) conformant licences,
including:
CC0
http://creativecommons.org/
publicdomain/zero/1.0/
CC BY
https://creativecommons.org/
licenses/by/4.0/
CC BY-SA
https://creativecommons.org/
licenses/by-sa/4.0/
See here for the comprehensive list: http://opendefinition.org/licenses/
10. Not all Creative Commons licences are
'open'
} NC -- You “may not use this work for
commercial purposes”.
Work under this licence cannot be used
for any purpose, therefore it is not open.
Can have significant, often unexpected
negative impact on potential re-use.
ND -- “No Derivative Works”.
Work under this licence cannot be
adapted if it is re-used. Not very helpful
for research!
NC & ND – An extremely restrictive re-use
licence, neither commercial purposes nor
adaptations are allowed.
11. Non-open licencing causes real
problems for research & education
The Creative Commons non-commercial (-NC) restriction is poorly defined in
most jurisdictions, and even more poorly understood by many of its users.
“non-commercial” != “non-profit”
A) Non-commercial actually excludes many teaching purposes:
In the UK, university students typically pay expensive tuition fees to attend.
Thus university teaching is often a commercial activity, -NC restricted
materials cannot be used to teach students in these circumstances.
B) Licence incompatibility – NC licences are not compatible with licences
used on major collaboration platforms like Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons
C) Non-commercial organizations (e.g. Deutschlandradio)
have been successfully sued for re-using CC BY-NC
content without permission.
http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=3036
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140326/11405526695/german-court-says-creat
ive-commons-non-commercial-licenses-must-be-purely-personal-use.shtml
12. Real problems of non-open data:
GBIF & biodiversity data
Desmet, P. (2013) Showing you this map of aggregated bullfrog occurrences
would be illegal http://peterdesmet.com/posts/illegal-bullfrogs.html
13. Open data in scholarship, and beyond
The open data movement is much broader than just academia/research
It's been successful & popular in areas like open government data:
For transparency, detecting & discouraging corruption
For releasing social & commercial value (governments collect a lot of data
already, why not make wider use of it, at little or no extra cost?)
For participatory governance –
citizens can be more informed, a “read/write” society
Each of these has clear parallels with open
research data: transparency & fraud detection,
extra value through research data re-use,
participatory citizen science
Some text adapted from http://opengovernmentdata.org/
14. Open data in scholarship, and beyond
Similarly, and with some overlap to open research data,
there's the open GLAM movement
(GLAM = Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums)
In this case, their data is typically collections metadata
but also digital images of their collections
See http://openglam.org/ for more
15. Technical aspects of open data
So, you understand the imporance of licensing...
What next?
How best can we make our data openly available?
Where should I upload to?
What format(s) should I make the data available in?
16. Data Standards & Data File Formats
Adhere to existing standards!
17. Data Standards & Data File Formats
Take note of community standards:
e.g. the Bermuda Principles for sharing DNA seq. data
● Automatic release of sequence
assemblies larger than 1 kb
(preferably within 24 hours).
● Immediate publication of finished
annotated sequences.
● Aim to make the entire sequence
freely available in the public domain
18. Data Standards & Data File Formats
If there are no formally agreed community standards,
canvas the community to create/formalise a standard
e.g. Best Practices for Data Sharing in Phylogenetic Research
(2014) PLOS Currents Tree of Life
e.g. The 1st Open Economics International Workshop
(Cambridge, 2013) bringing together academic
economists from around the world to discuss data
sharing in economics research.
19. Data Standards & Data File Formats
If there are multiple, competing file formats:
Opt for file formats based on open standards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard
e.g.
Avoid proprietary formats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_format
e.g.
20.
21. Data Standards & Data File Formats
A real example: recent creation of a new data
standard for exchange of 3-dimensional reconstruction
of objects from tomographic imaging data
SPIERS software
+ VAXML data standard
Sutton et al (2012) SPIERS and VAXML: A software
toolkit for tomographic visualisation and a format for
virtual specimen interchange.
Palaeontologia Electronica
22. Where to upload open data?
http://www.crystallography.net/
Genbank,
SRA,
1000's more!
24. Your data is NOT 'too big' to share
http://gigadb.org/dataset/100124
39 Gigabytes (GB)
of MRI scans
25. Intelligent data papers allow databases
to automatically pull-in your data
Many publishers (e.g. Pensoft) intelligently
markup data papers so that the data can be
automatically ingested into appropriate db's
on the day of publication!
Data
data
26. Data sharing benefits authors & re-users
Piwowar HA, Vision TJ. (2013)
Data reuse and the open data
citation advantage. PeerJ
1:e175
“...open data citation
benefit for this sample
to be 9%”
relative to papers
providing no public
data, for gene
expression microarray
data
10.7717/peerj.175/fig-2
See also previous work by
Piwowar:
10.1371/journal.pone.0000308
27. Those who share data, do better science
Wicherts, J. M., Bakker, M. & Molenaar, D. (2011)
Willingness to share research data is related to the
strength of the evidence and the quality of reporting of
statistical results. PLoS ONE 6, e26828+ URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026828
The authors examined psychological papers for the quality of statistical
reporting & asked the authors of those papers for the full data underlying
the reported results. Generally, those who shared, had more statistically
robust, reproducible results.
28. “Email the author for data” - doesnt work
A well-known problem, which
I myself have also faced
many times!!!
Many legacy journals
unfortunately still pretend
that “email the author” is
still acceptable.
Wicherts JM, Borsboom D,
Kats J, Molenaar D (2006)
The poor availability of
psychological research
data for reanalysis.
American Psychologist 61:
726–728 link
29. Best practice open data is time consuming
(but still worth the extra effort!)
Emilio M. Bruna recently provided an estimate of the amount of
time it took him to prepare & upload open data related to
publication to figshare & dryad.
11
Hours
& $90
(for Dryad)
Providing open-source code was the most time consuming part (25.5 hours),
and Open Access publication the most expensive ($600).
http://brunalab.org/blog/2014/09/04/the-opportunity-cost-of-my-openscience-was-35-
hours-690/
30. Not all data should be open!
Obviously, there are some types of
data which should NOT be made
mandatorily open e.g. sensitive
medical data
However, with informed consent, if patients really want to,
they should be allowed to publish their own medical data
31. But with informed consent, sharing
sensitive health data can have good
outcomes
http://blog.ted.com/2013/06/14/why-i-opensourced-cures-for-my-cancer-sa
lvatore-iaconesi-at-tedglobal-2013/
32. Other exceptions to the open default
Sensitive species conservation data
e.g. exact geocoordinates of home range
Certain species of wild orchids, cacti & carnivorous plants
are highly endangered by illegal harvesting.
Publishing the exact geolocation data of the remaining
populations of commercially-desirable, endangered
species is really dumb thing to do.
Such data is typically held privately in databases (not
publicly available).
33. The 5 stars of open data
Most research data would get
ZERO (not available online)
Or just ONE star
http://5stardata.info/
34. 3-star open research data is achievable
This is where research data publication
should be aiming for in the short term.
Publishing .csv / non-proprietary open data is
NOT actually that hard!
http://5stardata.info/
35. Open Access & Open Data have similar goals
80% of research is publicly
funded
1
e.g. maximising the return on investment, provided to research by
taxpayers and charities
Source: “Academic Publishing: Survey of funders supports the benign Open Access outcome priced into shares, HSBC Global Research,”
February 11, 2013: https://www.research.hsbc.com/midas/Res/RDV?ao=20&key=RxArFbnG1P&n=360010.PDF
36. Further Reading
1.Editor’s Introduction - Samuel A. Moore
2.Open Content Mining - Peter Murray-Rust,
Jennifer C. Molloy, Diane Cabell
3.The Need to Humanize Open Science - Eric C.
Kansa
4.Data Sharing in a Humanitarian Organization: The
Experience of Médecins Sans Frontières - Unni
Karunakara
5.Why Open Drug Discovery Needs Four Simple
Rules for Licensing Data and Models - Antony J.
Williams, John Wilbanks, Sean Ekins
6.Open Data in the Earth and Climate Sciences -
Sarah Callaghan
7.Open Minded Psychology - Wouter van den Bos,
Mirjam Jenny, Dirk Wulff
8.Open Data in Health Sciences - Tom Pollard
9.Open Research Data in Economics - Velichka
Dimitrova
10.Open Data and Palaeontology - Ross Mounce
Out soon this November,
2014
Published by Ubiquity
Press
37. Further Reading
● The Open Data Handbook - http://opendatahandbook.org/
● 5 star Open Data - http://5stardata.info/
● Science as an open enterprise (2012) A Royal Society report
● Caetano, D. S. & Aisenberg, A. 2014 Forgotten treasures: the fate of data in animal
behaviour studies Animal Behaviour
Data sharing in phylogenetics
● Magee et al 2014 The Dawn of Open Access to Phylogenetic Data PLOS ONE
● Drew et al 2013 Lost Branches on the Tree of Life. PLOS Biology
● Stoltzfus et al 2012 Sharing and re-use of phylogenetic trees (and associated data)
to facilitate synthesis. BMC Research Notes
On licencing & legal issues with re-use
● Hagedorn et al 2011 Creative commons licenses and the non-commercial
condition: Implications for the re-use of biodiversity information. ZooKeys
● Mounce 2012. Life as a palaeontologist: Academia, the internet and creative
commons. Palaeontology Online
● Klimpel, P. 2012 Consequences, Risks, and side-effects of the license module
Non-Commercial – NC [PDF]
38. Further Reading
● Murray-Rust, P. Open data in science. Serials Review 34, 52-64 (2008). URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.serrev.2008.01.001
● Leonelli, S., Smirnoff, N., Moore, J., Cook, C. & Bastow, R. Making open data work
for plant scientists. Journal of Experimental Botany 64, 4109-4117 (2013). URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ert273
● Hrynaszkiewicz, I. & Cockerill, M. Open by default: a proposed copyright license
and waiver agreement for open access research and data in peer-reviewed
journals. BMC Research Notes 5, 494+ (2012). URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-494
● Boulton, G., Rawlins, M., Vallance, P. & Walport, M. Science as a public enterprise:
the case for open data. The Lancet 377, 1633-1635 (2011). URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(11)60647-8
● Parr, C. S. Open sourcing ecological data. BioScience 57, 309-310 (2007). URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1641/b570402
● Poisot, T., Mounce, R. & Gravel, D. Moving toward a sustainable ecological
science: don't let data go to waste! Ideas in Ecology and Evolution 6 (2013). URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.4033/iee.2013.6b.14.f
39. November 15-17, 2014
Washington, D.C. & Online
www.opencon2014.org
@open_con #opencon2014
See you there if you're lucky enough to be going!
40. Thank you!
Happy to answer all questions
ross@righttoresearch.org
@RMounce
www.righttoresearch.org
www.sparc.arl.org