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kaitlin thaney@kaythaney ; @mozillascience
univ. of north dakota / 5 feb 2014
making the web work for science
doing good is part of our code
help researchers use the power of the open web to change science’s future.
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science is still (largely) rooted in 17th c. practices.
(and not in that “retro is cool” sort of way.)
early forms of knowledge sharing
our current systems are designed to create
friction.despite original intentions.
What Des-Cartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, &
especially in taking ye colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration.
If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.
- Isaac Newton, 1676
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existing system is imperfect
data,
ability to reproduce experiments,
incentive to change,
traditions last not because they are excellent, but because influential people are averse to change and because of the sheer burdens of
transition to a better state ...
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“Cass Sunstein
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- access to content, data, code, materials.- emergence of “web-native” tools.- rewards for openness, interop, collaboration, sharing.- push for ROI, reuse, recomputability, transparency.
“open science”
research cycleidea
experiment
lit review
materials
publish
share resultsretest
analyze
collect data
types of informationhypothesis/query
protocolsparameters
content
non-digital “stuff”
articlesproceedings
negative results
analysiscode
datasetsmodels
(added complexity)
prof activitiesmentorship
teaching activities
blocking pointsidea
experiment
access
attaining materials
publish
share resultsretest
analyze
collect data
(to name a few ...)
“... up to 70% of research from academic labs cannot be reproduced, representing an enormous
waste of money and effort.”- Elizabeth Iorns, Science Exchange
Source: Michener, 2006 Ecoinformatics.
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is open enough?what does it mean to “operate on/like the web”?
code(interop)
community(people)
code/data literacy(means to learn/engage)
our systems need to talk to one another.
“One worry I have is that, with reviews like this, scientists will be even more discouraged from publishing their code [...] We need to get more code out there, not improve how it looks.”
code as a research object
what’s needed to reuse ?
“There’s greater reward, and more temptation to
bend the rules.”- David Resnik, bioethicist
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we need to even (/ elevate) the playing field.
facing a digital skills gap
“Reliance on ad-hoc, self-
education about what’s
possible doesn’t scale.”
- Selena Decklemann
learn from open source(culture as well as technology)
current activity:129 instructors(60+, training)
109 bootcamps3700+ learners
we need to build capacity, not just more nodes.
instill best (digital,
reproducible) practice
“research hygiene”
in an increasingly digital, data-driven world, what core skills, tools
do the next-generation need?
education as a means of building community
... globally, as well as across disciplines.
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shifting practice (and getting it to stick)
is challenging.... but not impossible.
disciplines as cultures
63 nations 10,000 scientists
50,000 participants
can we do the same for research on the web?
tools and technologycultural awareness, best practice
connections, open dialogueskills training
what are the necessary components?
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operating in isolation doesn’t scale.
coordination and collaboration are key.
design for interoperability.
remember the non-technical challenges.
join us (and the conversation.)teach, contribute, learn.
http://software-carpentry.orghttp://mozillascience.org
