Presented at the JISC/CNI Workshop in Birmingham UK on July 6, 2012.

1. Open Participatory Science
Philip E. Bourne
pbourne@ucsd.edu
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2. My Perspective
• US centric
• Associate Vice Chancellor (Administrative)
• Professor (Faculty, Education)
• Resource provider (PDB)
• OA advocate (PLoS EIC)
• Comp Biol / life sciences (Research)
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3. Future Scenario - Research
• At home, prior to leaving for the lab., Jane, syncs her
iResearcher with the latest feed from her discovery tool. On
the bus she reviews the stream, selecting a video “paper”
close to her interest in HIV-1 proteases. The data shows
apparent anomalies with her own work. By the time the bus
stops she has recomputed the results, proven the anomaly
and written a rebuttal and sent it to the open institutional
archive for community scrutiny. Later in the day she reviews
the associated commentary and notes from the institutional
librarian about other on-line resources she should consider to
support her argument. After further work that evening she
triggers a link to the journal from the institutional archive
which at the same time invokes several social media sources
raising awareness of the rebuttal 2012
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4. Implications
• We have discovery informatics tools that work
narrow and deeply
• The “paper” becomes a seamless source of
data and methods to reproduce the
experiment
• Librarians are the custodians of institutional
repositories
• Institutional repositories are useful
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5. Future Scenario - Education
• Mary has decided she want to pursue an
undergraduate degree with a major in
biochemistry.
• A review of the higher education portal provides
a rank ordered list of institutions with associated
costs, virtual course catalog, in person structure,
and success ranking.
• She chooses the World University campus in
Birmingham (WUB) for the depth of its virtual
offerings and forward looking group participatory
structure and new experimental labs.
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6. Implications
• Basic lectures are virtual learn at your own pace
and supplemented by professorial meetings. The
open education courseware system that the WUB
has access to provides lectures by world leaders
who are excellent educators
• The group participatory structure has labs where
the professor actually works with students
• Student ratings drive enrolments and course
structure
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7. Other Drivers of Change:
The Story of Meredith
• Citizen Science beyond the norm
• Made possible by OA
• Children heard but not seen
• Academic institutions are hierarchical
knowledge acquisition is not
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8. Institutional Response Thus Far
• Universities - Limited
– Institutional repositories
– Libraries – funding issues
– My corridor – Research Works Act
– UCSF – Faculty speaking
• Government - Drivers
– NIH/Wellcome etc OA policies
– NSF/NIH Data sharing policies
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9. What is Needed? - Government
• Enforcement of data sharing policies
• Enforcement of open access policies
• Standardization of their own archives
• Guaranteed funding of archives (eg PDB)
• Mechanisms to support international efforts –
science is global; funding is not
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10. What is Needed? - Institution
• Recognition of staff as faculty
• Centers of Scholarly Innovation
• Push for institutional repository standardization
leading to quality improvements, reproducibility etc.
• Make institutional repositories more customer valuable
and friendly
• Better educate Committees on Academic Promotion
• Recognize and reward innovation in scholarly
communication
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11. What is Needed? - Faculty
• Reward!
• Push publishers
• Better sharing between those in the know and
those not
• Exemplars that really show broad value –
examples to date:
– Google Scholar Profile
– Mendeley
– Evernote
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12. One Solution:
Use the Traditional Reward System in New Ways
The Wikipedia Experiment – Topic Pages
• Identify areas of Wikipedia that
relate to the journal that are
missing of stubs
• Develop a Wikipedia page in the
sandbox
• Have a Topic Page Editor review
the page
• Publish the copy of record with
associated rewards
• Release the living version into
Wikipedia
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13. What new skills and infrastructures do
we need?
• Data journals
• App model for science
• Publish workflows
• Better use of rich media
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14. Podium Capture
Step 1 Mac
PC
presenter starts
PowerPoint
Step 4
Slides
slides are
uploaded
Website
Step 3
presenter stops
recording and
initiates upload Step 5
Step 2
presenter starts slides and podcast Step 6
recording on are automatically listener
smart phone Sync File synchronized plays back
Podcast
synchronized
presentation
Android
iPhone
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15. How do we create meaningful and
effective engagement with the key
players?
• Government
– Funding across the stakeholders
• Increase the visibility an deliverables of the
efforts to date
– Force11
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16. What are the new roles and
responsibilities required?
• Librarians need to convince university
administrators of the value of a new and
emerging role
• Need high level administrators responsible for
on-line educational content
• Need on-site faculty and student training of
new technologies
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17. Workshop Objective
• The objective of the event is to identify opportunities
for research universities to capitalise on new and
emerging forms of scholarly discourse. The outcomes
of the event will be increased understanding of the
opportunities from changing scholarly communications
for universities to build on their core mission, whilst
offering technical and thought leaders a chance to
explore institutional needs and concerns in order to
help shape future innovations. It will contribute to a
shared international understanding of the issues facing
universities and other stakeholders. Outputs will be a
high quality report and record of the proceedings via
different media.
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18. Session Objective
• As digital communications present the opportunity for researchers
to reach out into the global publics, what does this mean for how
we manage and present our scholarly activity? High-profile citizen
science initiatives and inter-disciplinary volunteering efforts,
enhanced data sharing and re-use and emerging data science
agendas are all having a significant impact on domain practice,
institutional infrastructure and requirements for new roles and
responsibilities. These are accompanied by innovative
experimentation with new publishing platforms and novel
approaches to assuring research integrity, quality and peer-review.
How do we create meaningful and effective engagement with the
key players? What are the new roles and responsibilities required?
What new skills and infrastructures do we need?
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19. From Liz
• -citizen science, volunteer computing, collective intelligence approaches to
problem solving like Innocentive, working with the public, barriers, incentives,
platforms, public engagement initiatives
• -data science, data publishing, data-driven research practice, data mining, data-
driven models and simulations
• -open data practices, data sharing and associated issues (ethics, privacy, consent,
confidentiality), legal and licensing issues (IP, FoI, DP) perhaps referencing genome
data
• -data quality, research integrity aspects
• -data citation, peer review of data, data credit, attribution, recognition and reward
- new approaches (though one of the afternoon sessions will explore metrics)
• -implications for universities - benefits, challenges, new infrastructure, new
services, professional support, costs and financial impact of new business models
• -implications for individuals - benefits, challenges, changing researcher skills, tools,
methodologies; changes for information professionals, increasing requirement for
informatics expertise and data scientists
• - what can institutions and individuals do to realise the potential?
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