kaitlin thaney@kaythaney ; @mozillascience

open repositories / 9 june 2015

leveraging the power of the web for science

doing good is part of our code

help researchers leverage the power of the open web.

learning around open source, data sharing

needed to further open practice;empowering others to lead in

their communities.

code(interop)

community(people)

code/data literacy(means to learn/engage)

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our current systems are creating friction.

despite original intentions.

current state of science

articlesdata

patents

some have a firehose

articlesdata

patents

quality versus quantity measured systems

Source: Michener, 2006 Ecoinformatics.

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what do we mean by “web-enabled

research”?

communicationaccess, reuse, scalecommunity-building

the web as a platform

power, performance, scale

- access to content, data, code, materials.- emergence of “web-native” tools.- rewards for openness, interoperability, collaboration, sharing.- push for ROI, reuse, recomputability, transparency.

“web-enabled research”

research social capital capacity

infrastructure layers for open research

open toolsstandards

best practicesresearch objectsscientific software

repositories

incentivesrecognition / P&Tinterdisciplinarity

collaborationcommunity dialogue

trainingmentorship

professional devnew policiesrecognition

stakeholders: universities, researchers, tool dev, funders, publishers, libraries...

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our models of discovery are rapidly evolving.shift from institutional to distributed.

http://bit.ly/1eZZC0f

access vs utilityhow to reconcile?

http://bit.ly/1MEcOmD

An example of a false-positive in the field of Solar—Terrestrial research: A Purported relationship between Neutron monitor changes and extremes of the Indian MonsoonDr. Benjamin A. Laken, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway

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freedom to prototype and innovate.

(connecting the dots.)

code as a research objectwhat’s needed to reuse ?

http://bit.ly/mozfiggit

<institutional archives>

<national archives>

<code repos>

syndication and storage (via APIs)

http://softwarediscoveryindex.org/report/

from campaigning to discovery

open, iterative developmentthe “work in progress” effect

http://openresearchbadges.org/

http://mozillascience.org/contributorship-badges-a-new-project/

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how do we build capacity?furthering adoption of

open, web-enabled research

fostering a (sustainable) community of practitioners

rewards, incentives, reputation

Source: Piwowar, et al. PLOS.

supports needed for“professional development”

“Reliance on ad-hoc, self-

education about what’s

possible doesn’t scale.”

- Selena Decklemann

https://mozillascience.github.io/studyGroupHandbook/

resbaz.edu.au

mozillascience.org/collaborate

lowering barriers to entry(+ leveling the playing field)

focus on building capacity, not just more nodes.

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http://ukiyo-e.org/ ; @jeresig

we have a history of working collaboratively.

(but there’s room for improvement.)

63 nations 10,000 scientists

50,000 participants

can we do the same / better for research on the web?

think beyond access, to utility.

design for interoperability.

remember the non-technical challenges.

we’re here to help.

http://mozillascience.orgsciencelab@mozillafoundation.org

kaitlin@mozillafoundation.org@kaythaney ; @mozillascience

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