from where have we come & where are we going

From Where Have We Come & Where Are We

Going?Philip E. Bourne, Ph.D.

Associate Director for Data Sciencephilip.bourne@nih.gov

A Big Thank You to the Organizers…

It was not just a conference…

You have taken us to a new place in our collective thinking…

You achieved what too few conferences achieve - you inspired all of us

More than numbers have changed since 2011…

Some Drivers• The “new societies” defined by interests not classical domains• Government & community mandates• Open data• Identifiers• Data & software citation• Internationalization• Bibliometrics• The emergence of the Commons• Emergence of frameworks/platforms• Competitions / Challenges• Public engagement in science

Mission Statement• Originally

• Who: clearly identified stakeholders associated with emerging technologies, policies, funding mechanisms and business models

• How: Change in communication through IT

• What: Semantically enhanced media-rich digital publishing

• Now?• Stakeholders include many

domain scientists who believe in the FORCE – To include those who apply the principles rather than those who develop the principles?• Is the mandate broader?

• Clear communication?• Impact measured through actual

humanitarian change?

In short the community doing the serving could be changing and those being served could be changing….

This presents both challenges and opportunities

Challenges & Opportunities• Challenges• Remains a biomedical focus

• Consumed by the private sector

• Pulling the major scholarly communication levers aka publishers, funders

• Opportunities• A biomedical focus? Other

communities could be engaged• Public-private partnerships

• Funders and some publishers want to help

The most immediate challenge is money…

Don’t wait until the opportunities come to you… Make your own opportunities…Every stakeholder has a role to play in the research funding ecosystem

Consider the Funder Food Chain

Food = Money & Directives

Funding Institutions

Funding Decision Makers

Funding Implementers

You & Your Collaborators

Applies to federal funders, foundations, philanthropy worldwide

Identify & Pursue the Touch Points

Food = Money & Directives

Funding Institutions

Funding Decision Makers

Funding Implementers

You & Your Collaborators

Precision medicineCancer MoonshotStrategic ComputingEOSC

ReproducibilityData managementCost effectivenessSustainability

Support for communities

Specific Touchpoint – Community Funding e.g. NIH U13

Specific Touchpoint - Preprints• It will gain significant traction in the life sciences – the community

wants it• The funders will collectively get behind it• In its broadest form this is an opportunity to reinvent scholarly

communication from the ground up

Other Touch Points …• Research identifiers leading to reproducibility• Data citation• Machine readable data sharing plans• Open data management & sustainability

•Your thoughts here …

www.force11.org/F11Discussions