eResearch South Workshop

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Open Science at Web-Scale Breaking all
Barriers? Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN,
University of Bath, UK Associate Director, UK
Digital Curation Centre eResearch Australasia,
November 2009 .
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UKOLN / DCC Consultative Report Six areas for
consultation Published 10 Nov
http//www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/opens
ciencerpt.aspx
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Roadmap

• Research Data Signposts Directions of travel
• Barriers, Fuel or Freeway Scale, Openness,
  Attribution
• Capacity and Capability Driving
  transformational change

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Research Data Signposts Directions of travel
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Your data in their Cloud?
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all too many observations lie isolated and
forgotten on personal hard drives and CDs trapped
by technical, legal and cultural barriers...
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Share my data?
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November 2009
Why? Lack of awareness of potential?
Reluctance to collaborate and share?
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The slow socialisation of science

• Science as a social activity
• Tweet
• Blog
• Comment
• Rate
• Vote
• Recommend
• Tag
• Share
• Mash

• Inter-institutional collaboration better
  science (Brian Uzzi, 2008)
• Team science at Web-Scale?

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Barriers, Fuel or Freeway

• Scale
• Openness
• Attribution

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• Pacific Biosciences California
• Next-next generation sequencing
• Single molecule sequencers
• Complete human genome in 15 minutes by 2013

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Multi-scale from Diamond Light Source ..
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..to the Laboratory bench
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• Infrastructure for Integration in the Structural
  Sciences (I2S2)
• Bridging the chasm between large scale
  facilities and the laboratory bench
• Integrated Information Model based on the Core
  Scientific MetaData Schema and the DCC Curation
  Lifecycle Model
• Use cases and Inter-disciplinary Pilots
• Cost-benefit analysis before and after

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Transcalar 4D data modelling of pancreatic
organogenesis in mouse Virtual pancreas
computational model anticipates in vivo
biological findings
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• Citation of models?
• Curation preservation of models?

72 partners (Europe) gt40 models (coastal seas) gt
15 institute feeds
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Validation verification? Societal implications?
We can accurately estimate the current level of
weekly influenza activity in the US with a
reporting lag of about one day.
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Barriers, Fuel or Freeway

• Scale
• Openness
• Attribution

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Continuum of Openness
Participation
Citizen science
Volunteers interested amateurs
Professional, experts
Lone scholar
dark data
Access
Open access
Closed
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Radical? Fringe? Transferable to other
disciplines?
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Peer Production
Can this model be applied to other disciplines?
Cost benefits?
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An early citizen scientist?
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110 years later Still engaging the public in
science....
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Working with professional scientists
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How can scientists learn from citizen journalists?
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Privacy issues?
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You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it

• Scott McNealy, CEO Sun Microsystems, 1999

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Solve puzzles for science
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Crowdsourcing science?
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Collaboration market New business model?
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Costs? Benefits? Risks?

• Attitudes to citizen science?
• Strategy policy implications for funders?
• Impact on research quality?
• Societal implications?

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Barriers, Fuel or Freeway

• Scale
• Openness
• Attribution

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• H Factor from Google Scholar
• Grant/Manuscript Review Factor cumulated
  authenticated reviews
• Annotations/Software/Datasets Factor cumulated
  entries to OA archive (data, sequences, software)
• Web Factor authenticated blog / wiki posts

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• Formal recognition?
• Incentive and reward structure?
• Research funder position?
• Publisher / learned society view?

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Capacity and Capability Driving
transformational change
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Research Infrastructure primary components
People
Skills
Workflows
Research Infrastructure
Process
Data
Services
Is your institution ready for open science at
Web-Scale?
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New academic structures?
New policies?
IPR issues?
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Library and Information Services roles?
Open Science at Web-Scale Report 2009
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New roles, new skills, new curricula?
Advocacy support?
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Data Informatics Logistics dilemma
Capacity
Annotation
Audit
Community curation
Data cleansing
Data management plans
Peer production
Metadata schema
Observations
Ontologies
Preservation
Data scientists , LIS
Selection Appraisal
Training
Visualisation
Professional scientist
Capability
Professional scientist
Citizens
Volunteers, interested amateurs
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Take homes

1. Open Science accessible data wider
   participation
2. We need new metrics
3. Are our institutions ready?
4. Capacity Capability
5. Articulate range of values and benefits

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For Rosalind Franklin
http//www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/2173
94/99712/Rosalind-Franklin
For whom, open science came too late...
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Moving to Multi-Scale Science Managing
Complexity Diversity
Thank you Slides will be available at
http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/e.j.lyon/pres
entations.htmlhttp//www.dcc.ac.uk/