[open-science] OKF: What shall I say at the Open Science Summit in Berkeley

Wed Jul 21 03:42:41 UTC 2010

PLEASE COMMENT

I now need to start thinking in earnest about my presentation at Berkeley. I
shall be speaking non-officially for the OKF (the title of my ten minutes is

"The Open Knowledge Foundation"
so I need to be representative.

- I shall stick to science (no time to talk about Shakespear, WDMMG, etc.
- start with the OKD. I think this is now quasi-scriptural and should be
used like the US use the pronouncements of the founding fathers - from the
OKD everything flows.
- the OKD has an overarching role to make sure that all components of the
scientific
environment are, where possible, OKD-Open. I shall assert that non-Openness
leads to friction, delay and worst of all bad science
- the following are necessary for Open science:
* Open Source (not essential but increasingly important for verfication and
innovation)
* Open Access (CC-BY only, critical for data-mining and text-mining)
* Open Standards (agreements on interoperability)
* Open Services (increasingly results will be obtaiined from the cloud)
* Open Data (PP-compliant)
* Open Methodology == Reproducible Science

Although I support OpenNotebook science (where the data are immediately
published to the world) I don't think it's essential (or possible) for all
science.
We can also add
* Open bibliography
* Open ThesisIndex

Do people feel this is a reasonable overview of what OKF can contribute to
Open Science. I'm not going to say anything about OSS and OA (other in that
the OKF covers the appropriate licences). But I will count them in the
flower petals.

So
Do we agree th flower logo is a good idea for the OKF in science. Each petal
is a subtopic and people can colour them red if they have actually done
that. They can get pink if they have half done it.

So I get
OS red
OA red
OStand red
OServ light pink (I have exposed a free service but it's not formally OKF
compliant)
OD red
OM pink - I have tried to define and expose reproducible methodology but not
yet succeeded.

So please help bring this together for something that has the rough
consensus of this list.

P.

How many petals and what should they be?
Couls someone do a

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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