A centre of expertise in digital information management

www.ukoln.ac.uk

UKOLN is supported by:

Open Science at Web-Scale: Breaking all Barriers?

Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN, University of Bath, UKAssociate 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/opensciencerpt.aspx

Roadmap• Research Data

Signposts : Directions of travel

• Barriers, Fuel or Freeway : Scale, Openness, Attribution

• Capacity and Capability :Driving transformational changehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/lenakorsnes/3284269/

Research Data Signposts: Directions of travel

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Your data in their Cloud?

“all too many observations lie isolated and forgotten on personal hard drives and CDs trapped by technical, legal and cultural barriers...”

Share my

data?

Why? Lack of awareness of potential? Reluctance to collaborate and share?

November 2009

The slow socialisation of science• Science as a

social activityTweet

BlogComment

RateVote

RecommendTag

ShareMash• Inter-institutional collaboration –

better science (Brian Uzzi, 2008)

• Team science at Web-Scale?

Barriers, Fuel or Freeway :• Scale• Openness• Attribution

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A centre of expertise in digital information management

www.ukoln.ac.uk

• Pacific Biosciences California

• Next-next generation sequencing

• Single molecule sequencers

• Complete human genome in 15 minutes by 2013

                                                             

A centre of expertise in digital information management

www.ukoln.ac.uk

Multi-scale : fr

om Diamond Light

Source …..

                                                             

A centre of expertise in digital information management

www.ukoln.ac.uk

…..to the Laboratory bench

• 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

Transcalar 4D data modelling of pancreatic organogenesis in mouse

Virtual pancreas computational model anticipates in vivo biological findings

72 partners (Europe)>40 models (coastal seas)> 15 institute feeds

• Citation of models?

• Curation & preservation of models?

“We can accurately estimate the current level of weekly influenza activity in the US with a reporting lag of about one day.”

Validation & verification? Societal implications?

Barriers, Fuel or Freeway :• Scale• Openness• Attribution

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Continuum of Openness

Open accessClosed Access

Participation

Lone scholar

Professional, experts

Volunteers interested amateurs

Citizen science

“dark data”

Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0

Radical? Fringe? Transferable to other disciplines?

Peer Production

Can this model be applied to other disciplines? Cost benefits?

An early citizen scientist?

110 years laterStill engaging the public in science....

Working with professional scientists

How can scientists

learn from citizen

journalists?

Privacy issues?

“You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it”

Scott McNealy, CEO Sun Microsystems, 1999

Solve puzzles

for science

Crowdsourcing science?

“Collaboration market”New business model?

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

Costs?Benefits?Risks?

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

• Formal recognition?• Incentive and reward structure?

• Research funder position?• Publisher / learned society view?

Dec 16, Washington DC

Capacity and Capability: Driving transformational change

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Research Infrastructure

People

Data Services Process

Skills Workflows

Research Infrastructure: primary components

Is your institution ready for open science at Web-Scale?

New academic structures?

New policies?

IPR issues?

Open Science at Web-Scale Report 2009

Library and Information Services roles?

Advocacy & support?

New roles, new skills, new curricula?

Data Informatics: Logistics dilemma

Professional scientistCitizens

Capability

Capacity

Data scientists , LIS

Peer production

Volunteers, interested amateurs

Community curation

Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0

Professional scientist

Observations

Audit

Preservation

Ontologies

Metadata schema

Annotation

Data management plans

Selection & Appraisal

Data cleansing

Training

Visualisation

Take homes1. 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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http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/KR/B/B/H/K/

For Rosalind Franklin

For whom, open science

came too late...

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/217394/99712/Rosalind-Franklin

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/presentations.htmlhttp://www.dcc.ac.uk/