research talk to the web dtc nov 2014
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Re-imagining Scientific Research
A “Social Machine” of experienced researchers, technology & information
Jeremy Frey
[email protected] profechem
Digital Chemistry
Reducing and Managing Uncertainty
Chemistry 2.0 (or 3.0)
A Chemist’s Digital Aura
http://mosaically.com/PhotoMosaic/3289771f-0bf3-49bf-bc8a-1810167096ff
“We have lots of information technology. We just don’t have any information.”
Intelligent Open Access to Data
Reducing Uncertainty
• What is already known?
• Who is doing what?
• How was a result obtained?
• Access to Data
• Integration of Data.
• Provenance & Planning
http://shop.lego.com/en-GB/Research-Institute-21110
“The Laboratory”
• A laboratory is an Integration of people and equipment
• A complex socio-technical system
• Disrupted or integrated by digital infrastructure?
• How to support (a) people to do what they are best at doing and (b) computers to undertake what they can do best and (c) ensure that they can work together.
Contexts
• Digital context for human action
• Human context for computational processes
• To support provenance and trust of the laboratory process
• Ensure discovery, integration and validation of data and information
Reproducibility
• How to ensure reproducibly?
• How to preserve provenance?
• How to acquire trust?
• How to retract incorrect information
• Open Notebook Science
• Citizen science vs Expert Science
Scientific Data Value Chain
• Does the Web currently/have the potential to disrupt or support the data value chain?
http://www.dreamingnewmexico.org/food/ff-local-foodshed
Collaborations
• Impact of collaborative challenges
– Maths “Project Polymath”
– Games “Foldit”
– Analytics “Kaggle”
• How does this influence value and trust?
IBM Watson
Foldit Kaggle
Citizen Science
How do we communicate?
• Surprisingly difficult to explain what a process involves
• Much of the detail is assumed to be understood and not explicitly discussed
• This is where the miss-understandings usually arise.
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. W. Edwards Deming
Growing need for the global (virtual) equivalent of the “Tea Room”
Semiotic Web• We have the document
Web• We have to some extent the
Web of Data • We have to a little extent
the Semantic Web of relationships
• We all interact with the Semiotic Web via the signs and symbols used in the human – Web interface
• But social, cultural, language, background influences on the interpretation is poorly understood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Name_of_rose_movieposter.jpg
EXAMPLES OF OUR LABS
Links with the Food Standards Agency
Internet of Things – Data Integration – Social MediaThe Food cloud
LabTrove Open Notebooks Mat Todd’s PZQ Project
BlogMyData Project - Godiva
LabTrove -> RSS -> Email / Twitter
All I am saying is that now is the time to develop the technology to deflect an asteroid
We must speed up the knowledge discovery process
The Art of Asking the Right Question
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes;he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
—Chinese Proverb
Why is asking a good question on Quora (20 credits per follower) more rewarding than writing a good answer (10 credits per upvote)?
http://www.quora.com/Why-is-asking-a-good-question-on-Quora-20-credits-per-follower-more-rewarding-than-writing-a-good-answer-10-credits-per-upvote
LABORATORIES OF THE FUTURE
http://lab-on-chip.gene-quantification.info/
Everything is Awesome, Everything is cool when you're part of a team
The Lego Movie
Change in the whole way we design and build experiments
3D Printers: A radical change to the experimental section of a paper!
Trust me Mort - no electronic communications
superhighway, no matter how vast and sophisticated,
will ever replace the art of the schmooze
Thank you for listening