"Building Capacity for Open Research" - AAMC
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This document discusses challenges with the current state of scientific research and proposes approaches to shift towards more open and reproducible practices. It notes that current systems are designed to create friction and rewards the wrong behaviors. To address this, it advocates taking a multi-faceted approach including improving infrastructure for open tools, standards, best practices, incentives and recognition, training, and policies. Key steps proposed are baking reproducible practices into academia, creating opportunities for experimentation and cross-disciplinary work, and rethinking how researchers are rewarded to support more open science.
"Building Capacity for Open Research" - AAMC
- 1. building capacity for open research practice kaitlin thaney @kaythaney ; @mozillascience AAMC / 18 sept 2014
- 2. doing good is part of our code
- 3. help researchers use the power of the open web to change science’s future.
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- 5. our current systems are designed to create friction. despite original intentions.
- 8. current state of science articles data patents
- 9. some have a firehose articles data patents
- 10. traditions last not because they are excellent, but because influential people are averse to change and because of the sheer burdens of transition to a better state ... “ “ Cass Sunstein
- 11. downside of output-driven recognition systems
- 12. “There’s greater reward, and more temptation to bend the rules.” - David Resnik, bioethicist
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- 14. leveraging the power of the web for scholarship
- 15. “web-enabled research” - access to content, data, code, materials. - emergence of “web-native” tools. - rewards for openness, interop, collaboration, sharing. - push for ROI, reuse, recomputability, transparency.
- 16. what do we mean by “open research”? community technology practices collaborative interoperable open review participatory discoverable data management recognition open tools sharing / reuse mentorship designed for reuse documentation / versioning
- 17. we’re rewarding the wrong behavior. at the sacrifice of scientific progress.
- 18. Source: Michener, 2006 Ecoinformatics.
- 19. “... up to 70 percent of research from academic labs cannot be reproduced, representing an enormous waste of money and effort.” - Elizabeth Iorns, Science Exchange
- 20. “research hygiene” instill best (digital, reproducible) practice
- 22. “Reliance on ad-hoc, self-education about what’s possible doesn’t scale.” - Selena Decklemann
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- 25. shifting practice takes a multi-faceted approach. necessary v. sufficient
- 26. infrastructure layers for efficient, reproducible research research social capital capacity open tools standards best practices research objects scientific software repositories incentives recognition / P&T interdisciplinarity collaboration community dialogue training mentorship professional dev new policies recognition stakeholders: universities, researchers, tool dev, funders, publishers ...
- 27. freedom to prototype and innovate. (connecting the dots.)
- 28. code as a research object what’s needed to reuse ? http://bit.ly/mozfiggit
- 32. (community driven) metadata for software discovery: JSON-LD http://bit.ly/mozfiggit
- 33. fostering a (sustainable) community of practitioners
- 34. current activity: 235+ instructors (60+, training) 4000+ learners
- 36. focus on building capacity, not just more nodes.
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- 38. shifting practice (and getting it to stick) is challenging. (takeaways and closing caveats.)
- 39. 1. bake reproducible practices into the fabric of academia. and design to enable scale.
- 40. 2. create opportunities and incentives for students and faculty to experiment, teach, work across aisles.
- 41. 3. rethink how we reward researchers and support roles. (and don’t be afraid to hit refresh.)
- 42. 4. be mindful of jargon/ semantics traps.
- 43. we’re here to help. teach, contribute, learn. http://mozillascience.org sciencelab@mozillafoundation.org
- 44. kaitlin@mozillafoundation.org @kaythaney ; @mozillascience special thanks: