[open-science] Open Science/Open Data at Science Conferences

Sat Aug 20 04:32:42 UTC 2011

Inspired by Matt's post, I have the following submission --

I made a presentation titled "Policy Issues in Accessibility and Interoperability of Scientific Data: Experiences from the Carbon Modeling Field" (http://bit.ly/n3o5bT) at the last AGU Fall Meeting. The presentation was in a session titled "Institutional Support for Science and Scientists in an Age of Public Scrutiny" (http://www.agu.org/cgi-bin/sessions5?meeting=fm10&part=PA42B).

On Aug 20, 2011, at 1:47 AM, Matt Jones wrote:

> There have been lots of data sharing and data management activities over the
> last decade in ecology and environmental science.  For example, we have
> sponsored open data sharing and management workshops at the Ecological
> Society of America annual conference since about 2000, held training
> sessions for scientists on how to expose data in networks like the Knowledge
> Network for Biocomplexity since about the same time, and held professional
> development activities around exposing scientists at field stations and
> early career faculty on principals of data sharing and tools for data
> sharing.  As a rough estimate, our group of collaborators has probably held
> 30-40 workshop activities of this type aimed at science audiences since
> roughly 2000.
> 
> Although I don't have links to all of these, here's a couple:
> 
> A KNB data sharing tools workshop in 2004:
> http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knbworkshop.jsp
> From our "Resource Discovery Initiative for Field Stations":
> http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp%3Fpage=RCNTrainingOctober17November2003.html
> 
> This trend continues with new activities from NCEAS and the DataONE project.
> For example, we just held two workshops at this month's ESA meeting, one on
> Data use and re-use that drew 51 scientists, and one on writing Data
> Management plans that drew 212 participants.  We have upcoming workshops of
> this sort at the Environmental Information Management workshop in September,
> at Super Computing 2011 in November, and at the American Geophysical Union
> meeting in December. Slides and information on these DataONE activities are
> here:
> 
> https://www.dataone.org/trainings
> 
> Hope this is helpful in some way.
> Matt
> 
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Heather Piwowar <hpiwowar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> # Open Science/Open Data at Science Conferences
>>> Iain Hrynaszkiewicz is keen to find out whether open science and open
>>> data in science are presented at conferences that are not specifically
>>> aimed at the open community. If you have seen it done, have entered a
>>> proposal or know of any others who have then do start a conversation
>>> on the list. It would be useful to compare experiences to find out how
>>> best to approach this and get more exposure for the ideas of open
>>> data/open science.
>>> 
>> 
>> I'm familiar with a few add-on workshops, birds-of-a-feature sessions, and
>> community forums set up adjacent to or within traditional conferences:
>> 
>>   - Open Science workshop 2009 <http://psb09openscience.wordpress.com/>,
>>   one day before the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing.
>>   - Open (Notebook) Science birds-of-a-feather<http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/ismb-2007-bof-open-notebook-science/> at
>>   2007 ISMB (followup<http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/summary-of-ons-bof-at-ismb/#comments>
>>   )
>>   - Data archiving and Open notebook sessions<http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/evolution-2010-and-ievobio-recap/>at Evolution and iEvoBio 2010
>>   - Open Science birds-of-a-feather<http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/recap-of-ievobio-bof-on-open-science-data-sharing-reuse-credit/>at iEvoBio 2010
>>   - Community Forum on Reproducible Research<http://kingkong.amath.washington.edu/rrforum/>right before ICIAM 2011
>>   - there was a panel proposal about Open Notebook Science submitted to
>>   iConference 2011 but it wasn't accepted
>> 
>> I think there was a workshop at a neuro conference before 2007 but I can't
>> easily find the link.
>> 
>> I've also presented my research into open data availability as solo
>> presentations/posters at several traditional science and infosci
>> conferences, for what that is worth.
>> 
>> Heather
>> 
>> --
>> Heather Piwowar
>> 
>> DataONE postdoc with NESCent and Dryad
>>  studying research data sharing and reuse
>>  remotely from Dept of Zoology, UBC, Vancouver Canada
>> http://researchremix.org
>> @researchremix <http://twitter.com/#!/researchremix>
>> 

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