Download - Open data spotlight: Badges for open science
Amye KenallOpen data for researchers - the obstacles and the opportunities #opendataspotlightThursday, 26 February 2015
Badges for Open Science
Publish all research, including data notes, across life sciences
Rapid, open science: 3 weeks to first decision, open peer review
GigaDB for free data and code/tools hosting (up to 1 terabyte)
Two full-time bioinformaticians and a data curator to help you make your research reproducible
Open data (CC0)
What have we learned?
#OpenData is good for individuals
Piwowar HA, Day RS, Fridsma DB (2007) PLoS ONE 2(3): e308. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000308
35% increase in
citations
#OpenData is good for communities
Huanming Yang, Support the Manchester Manifesto: a case study of the free sharing of human genome data, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08109028.2011.631275#abstract
Yet still not great take up …
30%
Are these working?
How can we reimagine how we value different research products?
“GPAs are worthless as a criteria for hiring and test scores are worthless… Your ability to perform
at Google is completely unrelated to how you performed when you were in school, because the skills you acquired in college are very different…”
Head of HR at Google, 2013
What does this have to do with research skills?
Digital Credenti
als
Mozilla Science
Lab
OA Publishers
ORCiD
Scientists
Open Badges
How can we reimagine how we value different research products?
Call to Action
https://github.com/mozillascience/
PaperBadger/issues/2
Read More
• http://mozillascience.org/contributorship-
badges-a-new-project/
• http://www.nature.com/news/publishing-
credit-where-credit-is-due-1.15033
• http://news.sciencemag.org/scientific-
community/2014/11/could-digital-badges-
clarify-roles-co-authors
