Open Data in Science & Research -- Open World Forum 2013, Public Policies track

Data Love in Science & Research

Rayna Stamboliyska, PhDCenter for Research and Interdisciplinarity,

Paris Descartes Universtity

Open Knowledge Foundation France

Science and the City

1957● 12% of public understand

scientific approach● 38% knew the Moon was smaller

than Earth● 44% agreed science will solve

social problems

=> Low knowledge but support for science

(Withney 1959)

Science and the City

1957● 12% of public understand

scientific approach● 38% knew the Moon was smaller

than Earth● 44% agreed science will solve

social problems

=> Low knowledge but support for science

(Withney 1959)

2008● 70+ % of public believes benefits

greater than harm● 80+ % consider science has to

receive public funding● climate and food biotech

scientists should participate more

=> Deep optimism and public trust in science

(Nat'l Science Board 2008)

What exactly is Open Science?

Free/Open Source software +

Open research data +

Open Access publications +

Open lab notebooks

What exactly is Open Science?

Free/Open Source software + Open research data + Open Access publications + Open lab notebooks

Fundamental goals:

• Open-sourced tools to enable reproducibility

● Public accessibility and transparency of scientific communication

• Transparency in experimental methodology, observation, and collection of data.

• Public availability and reusability of scientific data.

Need Free and Open Source?

Nature, 2010

We can haz Open Source!

France, 2013

But nowhere else in the EU...

#FAIL

Once upon a time...

Once upon a time...

We can haz Open Access!

Yet...

The article is the advertisment of the scholarly contribution

Open Data for science

● Availability and Access: people can get the data

● Re-use and Redistribution: people can reuse and share the data

● Universal Participation: anyone can use the data

(the Open Definition, by the Open Knowledge Foundation, 2005)

Need Open Data?

Need Open Data?

[…] Papers with publicly available data received about 9% more citations overall, with the difference increasing over time. The researchers concluded that much of this citation difference was due to actual data reuse.

"Data reuse and the open citation advantage", H. Piwowar and T. Vision, PeerJ 2013

Steal this data (you already paid for it)

[…] information already paid for by the public purse should not be paid for again each time it is accessed or used.

[…] Policies on open access to scientific research results should apply to all research that receives public funds.

The European Commission, Recommendation for the preservation and access to scientific research, 2012

The Fifth freedom

Data Cake metaphor by Mark Johnstone

Thank you!