Building capacity for open science - COASP Meeting

kaitlin thaney@kaythaney ; @mozillascience

COASP / 15 sep 2015

building capacity for open science

kaitlin thaney@kaythaney ; @mozillascience

COASP / 15 sep 2015

building capacity for open science

getting open practice to stick

doing good is part of our code

we empower researchers to do more open, collaborative research on the web.

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http://bit.ly/1eZZC0f

current state of science

articlesdata

patents

some have a firehose

articlesdata

patents

quality versus quantity measured systems

Source: Michener, 2006 Ecoinformatics.

a few fallacies of the research system

the published record is the only useful record

if it’s published, it’s usable.

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

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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... that this is good job advice:

that there are other ways to job security

1. examples of what’s possible.

2. making the case for open (and teaching it).

3. sustaining momentum.

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learning from (+ through) open source development

examples of “science like the web” in practice

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

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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what does “web literacy”

mean for research?

communicationaccess, reuse, scale

distributed environment

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”

putting open ideals into practice(+ paying it forward)

https://commonspace.wordpress.com/2015/07/15/web-literacy-and-leadership/

service learning: n. hands-on, experiential learning

where people develop skills by working on a project in service of a bigger goal.

http://bit.ly/1JTMBSb

how do we amplify within research?

(... and beyond software development?)

community-driven contributorship

http://mozillascience.github.io/leadership-training/

mozillascience.org/collaborate

2 days, 30+ cities, 53+ hours

http://bit.ly/1N331JV

100+ pull requests

(code, content, learning resources)http://bit.ly/1N331JV

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how do we build capacity?furthering adoption of

open, web-enabled research

rewards, incentives, reputation

supports needed for“professional development”

“Reliance on ad-hoc, self-

education about what’s

possible doesn’t scale.”

- Selena Decklemann

lowering barriers to entry(+ leveling the playing field)

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

mozillascience.org/collaborate

100+ pull requests

(code, content, learning resources)http://bit.ly/1N331JV

https://www.mozillascience.org/fellows

resbaz.edu.au

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we need your help.

rethink beyond just access to usability.

don’t be afraid of open source collaborations.

remember the non-technical challenges.

we’re here to help.

http://[email protected]

[email protected]@kaythaney ; @mozillascience

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