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the reality of
                          ‘digital science’

                            kaitlin thaney
                            SciPy, 13 july 2011
                               austin, texas


Wednesday, 13 July 2011
xi. background




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about me



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Digital Science
                          (the company)



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investment arm
                           incubator role
                            in-house dev


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tiered approach
                              build to scale
                          researcher-focused


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1. science, tech, and
                        moving online



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research
                                        idea
                                                    lit review
                          publish
                                                      discovery

    share results                                    materials

                                        retest
                           analyze                  experiment

                                     collect data
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blocking points
                                    (to name a few ... )
                                           idea
                                                      lit review
                          publish
                                                        discovery

    share results                                       materials

                                           retest
                           analyze                    experiment

                                       collect data
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access



                          analysis




                              dissemination
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text text
                             text




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discovery &
                            delivery


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changes at the
                            workbench


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annotation &
                            curation


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social &
                          administrative


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gaps still exist




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2. key constituencies



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(3)

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machines
                            researchers
                          decision makers


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machines
                            researchers
                          decision makers


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...
                          annotation
                            markup
                            search
                           discovery
                          “behind the
                            scenes”
                               ...


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[brief interlude]



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digitisation of the
                           scholarly canon
                              (content is still king)




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not nearly there yet ...




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barriers to “access”




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still the starting point




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patents are no better
                           (in many cases, worse)




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can streamline




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name disambiguation




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10,11-dihydro-5-methyl-5H-dibenzo[b,e][1,4]diazepin-11-one

                          (still strains the minds of the best)




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machine readability
       is key.

               agreement is
                  hard.



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10,11-dihydro-5-methyl-5H-dibenzo[b,e][1,4]diazepin-11-one




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“everything is metadata ...
                          everything can be a label.”
                                    - david weinberger




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machines
                            researchers
                          decision makers


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a few edge cases
                              (though no field is
                                        perfect)



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CC-BY-2.0 - Plaxco Lab - http://www.flickr.com/photos/34857812@N04/



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tracking
                          expiration
                          calibration


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ordering
                                       +
                                  processing

                          the non-digital



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protocols
                          parameters
                          calibration
                           misc. lit



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managing information
                          different types of “data”




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often gigabytes,
                           not terabytes



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“i invented a folder based
                         system ...”




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“i invented a folder based
                         system ...”


       “yeah, we had a LIMS. it only
       ever got used to store photos
           from lab nights out.”

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why?
                   experimentation reliance

                          data moves, grows legs

                    funder/instit’n pressure


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machines
                            researchers
                          decision makers


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rewards, incentives
                             the “ why ”




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data capture
                          (of a different sort)




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the “social issue”
                            best practices
                        behaviour roadblocks
                   discipline / researcher specific




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paper’s still the currency




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imperfect system




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“Right now we're going through a
              Cambrian explosion of metrics.”
                                    - Johan Bollen




                               Nature 465, 864-866 (2010) | doi:10.1038/465864a




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there’s been a drastic spike in terms of
                           sheer volume and type



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citation / impact factor
                                        h - index
                          weighted citations (eigenfactor, sjr)
                               “betweenness centrality”
                                    alt-metrics, etc.

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difficult to ...
                         harmonise
                   track /maintain / map
                         understand
                     (even still measure)


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administrators / funders
                            =
               part of the research cycle



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3. the reality



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“the future is here ...
             just not evenly
                distributed yet.”
                          - William Gibson



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changing
                          understandings,
                            paradigms


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technology can help
            design decisions are key
             plan for the irrational


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more efficient research
             increase productivity
             enable reproducibility


Wednesday, 13 July 2011
thank you.

                 k.thaney@digital-science.com
                    www.digital-science.com
                         @kaythaney


Wednesday, 13 July 2011

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