Astroinformatics 2011
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1) The document discusses tools and technologies for digital research, highlighting both existing challenges and opportunities for improvement. 2) It focuses on how machines, researchers, and decision makers can work together more efficiently through technologies that enable tasks like knowledge discovery, machine readability, and sharing of information. 3) The key message is that technology has potential to help coordinate research, reduce duplication of effort, and make the scientific process more efficient, productive, and reproducible.
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Astroinformatics 2011
- 1. tools for digital research kaitlin thaney @kaythaney astroinformatics, 27 sep 2011
- 2. a few knowns, by way of background
- 4. “... now old enough to legally drink ...” - perry greenfield
- 5. my knowledge
- 7. science has long been data intensive
- 10. changes: volume / scale complexity “hammers” ...
- 11. text text text
- 12. gaps still exist
- 14. we’re a tools company
- 15. technology company publisher link london, nyc, tokyo
- 17. tiered approach build to scale researcher-focused
- 18. (3)
- 19. machines researchers decision makers
- 20. machines researchers decision makers
- 21. “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
- 23. knowledge discovery (an example in chemistry)
- 24. still the starting point
- 25. patents are no better (in many cases, worse)
- 31. can streamline
- 33. 10,11-dihydro-5-methyl-5H-dibenzo[b,e][1,4]diazepin-11-one (still strains the minds of the best)
- 34. machine readability discoverability annotation (even search)
- 38. CC-BY-2.0 - Plaxco Lab - http://www.flickr.com/photos/34857812@N04/
- 39. CC-BY-2.0 - Plaxco Lab - http://www.flickr.com/photos/34857812@N04/
- 47. still issues with management (we’re human after all)
- 48. “i invented a folder based system ...”
- 49. “i invented a folder based system ...” “yeah, we had a LIMS. it only ever got used to store photos from lab nights out.”
- 52. sharing information still hits most’s mental block
- 53. on the horizon ...
- 54. machines researchers decision makers
- 55. rewards, incentives the “ why ”
- 56. “the future is here ... just not evenly distributed yet.” - William Gibson
- 57. problems aren’t as new or novel as you may think
- 58. technology can help coordinate where feasible reduce duplication
- 59. more efficient research increase productivity enable reproducibility