User:Steven J. Koch/2011 Cyberinfrastructure Day

Our lab committed to "open science" -> open notebook science, open data, open access publishing

• our data example maybe will show up ok: windows media player
• Our readme file: http://openwetware.org/wiki/Koch_Lab:Data/MT_Gliding_Assay_Readme_File
• Recent example from teaching: http://figshare.com/figures/index.php/MTC2011Gliding
  • Google search microtubule D2O
• So the data are there but not very usable, discoverable, or reliably archived
  • This is what Rob has been working on and looks like it's succeeding!

Is it safe? Smart? Required?

• scooping: defense by publication
• Tenure: Physics chair extraordinarily supportive both in teaching and in our lab
• Two Ph.D. students from lab so far, both graduated with professional networks and both getting job offers right away. Neither has a "traditional" publication yet.
• NSF Feedback (page 6) http://www.slideshare.net/skoch3/science-online2010-open-notebook-science

Open Data Has Value, (usually?) unexpected

• John Callow's Millikan oil drop experiment http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:John_Callow/Notebook/Junior_Lab/Final_Formal_Report
  • Contact with Michael Nielsen http://friendfeed.com/stevekoch/4d252b4e/john-callow-fun-mathematical-analysis-of
• Deutsch, Brunner, Saxton preprint on arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2225

It's one thing to want to make data open, very difficult to do it well

• twitter search #opendata http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23opendata
• Panton Principles http://pantonprinciples.org/about/
  • Smart people say, "public domain" (CC0) most valuable license
• ScienceOnline2010 Dorothea: "Researchers as contributors of information instead of consumers of information" notes: http://stevekochscience.blogspot.com/2010/01/scienceonline2010-top-n-things-i.html
  • Met librarians / realized they are heroes! (and are done fining me :) )
  • Friendfeed thread: http://friendfeed.com/scienceonline2012/522edaac/inspired-by-conversations-with-dorothea