Posts Tagged ‘European Union’
Monday, February 1st, 2016
I attended the first (of a proposed five) workshops organised by LEARN (an EU-funded project that aims to ...Raise awareness in research data management (RDM) issues & research policy) on Friday. Here I give some quick bullet points relating to things that caught my attention and or interest. The program (and Twitter feed) can be found at https://learnrdm.wordpress.com where other's comments can also be seen.
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Henry Oldenburg, founder member and first secretary of the Royal Society, was the first Open Scientist.
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About 100 people attended the workshop. Of these ~3-5 identified themselves as researchers creating data, and the rest comprised research data managers, administrators, librarians, publishers (but see below) etc. Many were new to their posts.
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Not publishing scientific data should become recognised as scientific malpractice.
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Central libraries should pro-actively disperse their knowledge to data scientists in departments.
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If a scientist is concerned that openly publishing their data might give advantage to their competitors, they are urged to counteract this by "being cleverer than the others".
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The three great bastions of open science are (a) Open Data, (b) Open access articles and (c) doing science openly. Examples of this third category include open notebook science (ONS), a form notably pioneered by Jean-Claude Bradley. One attribute of ONS was noted as no insider knowledge.
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Learned societies should endow medals for Open Science.
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(Some) publishers are reinventing themselves as Research Facilitators.
The plenaries are all well worth dipping into (certainly the video and in some cases all the slides are scheduled to appear).
If you are a researcher (undergraduate students, PGs, PDRAs, early career researchers and academics) you should immediately track down your local evangelist/expert in RDM and ask what the local infrastructures are (or will be shortly built).
Tags:Academic publishing, European Union, first Open Scientist, first secretary, Free culture movement, Henry Oldenburg, Jean Claude Bradley, Open access, Open data, Open science, RDM, Research, researcher, Royal Society, Science, Scientific method, Scientific misconduct, scientist, Technology/Internet
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Friday, June 26th, 2015
Open principles in the sciences in general and chemistry in particular are increasingly nowadays preached from funding councils down, but it can be more of a challenge to find innovative practitioners. Part of the problem perhaps is that many of the current reward systems for scientists do not always help promote openness. Jean-Claude Bradley was a young scientist who was passionately committed to practising open chemistry, even though when he started he could not have anticipated any honours for doing so. A year ago a one day meeting at Cambridge was held to celebrate his achievements, followed up with a special issue of the Journal of Cheminformatics. Peter Murray-Rust and I both contributed and following the meeting we decided to help promote Open Chemistry via an annual award to be called the Bradley-Mason prize. This would celebrate both “JC” himself and Nick Mason, who also made outstanding contributions to the cause whilst studying at Imperial College. The prize was initially to be given to an undergraduate student at Imperial, but was also extended to postgraduate students who have promoted and showcased open chemistry in their PhD researches.
Peter and I are delighted to announce the inaugural winners of this prize.
The postgraduate winner is Tom Phillips for his open blog describing his experiences as a PhD student and for leading by example. He has published his instrumental codes on Github (and now Zenodo[1]) and data and codes for reproducing the graphs in his work on the “lab on a chip” in Figshare[2] and through his blog has encouraged other research students to do the same. Tom has worked assiduously to ensure that all the articles describing his PhD work are or will be open access.[3]
The undergraduate winner is Tom Arrow for his “spare time” involvement with WikiMedia (the foundation that underpins the open Wikipedia), including participating in a Wikimedia EU hackathon in Lyon France, and feeding his experiences and skills back into his undergraduate environment as well as enhancing the teaching Wiki used by his fellow students. Tom took the lead in introducing us to Wikidata[4] for storing chemical data in an open Wikibase data repository and in promoting its use for enriching Wikipedia chemistry pages and showcasing open data in undergraduate teaching environments.
References
- T. Phillips, and S. Macbeth, "pumpy: Zenodo release", 2015. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19033
- T. Phillips, J.H. Bannock, and J.D. Mello, "Data for microscale extraction and phase separation using a porous capillary", 2015. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1447208
- T.W. Phillips, J.H. Bannock, and J.C. deMello, "Microscale extraction and phase separation using a porous capillary", Lab on a Chip, vol. 15, pp. 2960-2967, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5lc00430f
- D. Vrandečić, and M. Krötzsch, "Wikidata", Communications of the ACM, vol. 57, pp. 78-85, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1145/2629489
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