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

Sun Sep 18 23:52:39 UTC 2011

Also see the list of OA-related events at the Open Access Directory (OAD).
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Events

The list covers non-OA events which include OA-related presentations, when
we know about them. And because OAD is a wiki, it's a place where you could
keep track of the events you find.

Apologies for the delayed response.

     Peter

Peter Suber
Berkman Fellow, Harvard University
Senior Researcher, SPARC
bit.ly/suber-gplus

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz <
Iain.Hrynaszkiewicz at biomedcentral.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Thanks for sending your examples of *non*-open science conferences where
> you have presented/submitted proposals to about open science.
>
> I have a few to add from this year:
> 1. MedicReS International Conference on Good Medical Research, Istanbul,
> 26th March 2011. http://www.ic2011.medicres.com/?islem=1&list=23
> 'Preparing Raw Clinical Data for Publication: Guidance for Journal
> Editors, Authors, and Peer Reviewers' (around 150 medical researchers
> and clinicians)
> 2. Society for Clinical Trials, Vancouver, 17th May 2011. 'New Insights
> in Reporting Clinical Trials: From Protocol to Systematic Review and
> Beyond' (The last section of this 90-minute session was a detailed
> discussion about sharing clinical research data; about 40 attendees)
>
> Upcoming:
> CONSORT 2011 meeting (http://www.consort-statement.org/), 7-9th
> September, Quebec. I'll be making the case for how the CONSORT Statement
> can be enhanced to better encourage/require access to raw data
> Some others for 2011-12 TBC.
>
> What do we think about, and what options do we have for,
> tracking/collating open science session activities  at field-specific
> conferences by this group? It might help us identify areas requiring
> further advocacy or ambassadors..?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Iain
>
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> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:09:53 +0100
> From: Ann Grand <Ann2.Grand at uwe.ac.uk>
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> I gave a couple of papers at conferences last year - EASST (European
> Association for the Study of Science and Technology - they had a strand
> on public engagement with engineering) and PCST 2010 (Public
> Communication of Science and Technology). Both were concerned with open
> science as a medium for public engagement with science. The papers are
> in my university (UWE, Bristol) repository or on my home page.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Ann
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>   1. Re: Open Science/Open Data at Science Conferences (Ross Mounce)
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> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:32:57 +0100
> From: Ross Mounce <ross.mounce at gmail.com>
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> I'm giving a purely Open Data talk at the British Ecological Society
> annual meeting next month actually...
>
> http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/meetings/current_future_meetings
> /2011_annual_meeting/other_events.php#online
>
> I've been invited for a little symposium entitled 'Publishing Science in
> the online age'
> It will hopefully be trackable on Twitter too, Sep 13th, using the
> hashtag #BESdigital
>
> here's a rough draft of my 10min talk so far...
>
> Title: On the importance of 'Open Science' and 'Open Data'
>
> Abstract: The Internet offers us an unprecedented opportunity to
> disseminate research in all its forms, far and wide for ease of
> accessibility, transparency, innovation, synthesis, education and
> outreach. We could and *should* do more to take advantage of this
> invaluable tool. One particular aspect that I campaign about, is the
> digital and Open availability of research data. Arguably, in many cases
> the underlying data is a more important and long-lasting contribution
> than the research paper itself, yet it is common practice in scholarly
> communications to only provide a paper with a mere description of the
> data and analysis. We have the tools to move beyond this bare minimum,
> and journals are slowly adopting them, but not nearly as much as they
> should. So with this talk, I shall state the case for 'Open Data'
> principles, with real examples of why accessibility and transparency is
> vitally important for maximally efficient research, and how it can
> benefit us all.
>
>
> Needless to say I haven't done the slides yet.
> I was thinking of reppin' Panton Principles, the OKF, Dryad, Figshare,
> "It's The Data" [1] "Linking Big" [2], DataCite (and the principles of
> data citation), and current issues with citations e.g.
> "Fame, Glory & Neglect in Meta-Analyses" [3,4,5]
>
> That's probably a bit ambitious for 10mins but we'll see how it goes.
> Suggestions for additions and/or ecology-specific additions are welcome!
> I notice the 5 BES run journals are 'Dryad partners' but between them
> have only submitted 1 dataset from 2009(!) to the Dryad repo! Perhaps
> some influence could help persuade BES to become *active* Dryad
> partners?
>
>
> Finally, to provide some further comment on the general issue of
> presenting on Open Data at Science conferences...
>
> I'd love to do Open Data / Open Science advocacy talks at every Science
> meeting I go to - a lot people just aren't aware of the issues and I
> feel these talks could potentially be very valuable to change and
> influence mindsets.
> BUT I feel I can't for a couple of reasons. 1.) Is the classic "I don't
> have the time/energy". For some conferences, I'd feel very lucky if I
> even got one talk accepted (my main research stuff). To ask for two
> separate talks would be almost unthinkable, and I kinda have to put my
> research first atm (but I can sneak in a few advocacy slides at the end
> of my talk if the conference isn't too serious, as I did at ProgPal
> 2011: http://www.slideshare.net/rossmounce/progpal2011)
>
> that reason probably isn't that novel or unexpected... but the next
> might be a bit more interesting
> 2.) In my experience, if you DO give a serious, well-researched,
> quantitated, subject-tailored, Open Data advocacy talk - people don't
> view it as research; they see it as pure politics and it rules you
> ineligible for talk prizes!
> I'm particularly thinking of my Young Systematists' Forum Dec 1st 2010
> talk:
> http://prezi.com/1s0lkatmc30t/the-continued-growth-of-phylogenetic-infor
> mation/
> The judges really liked it, thought it was a great talk, but it was
> 'unscorable' in their words. Having to stick to the set criteria on
> their marking schemes, I apparently disqualified myself from the
> student's competition!
> The gist of it is; I have a horrible feeling that *some* people view
> anything even mildly political as NOT Scientific, even if it's hugely
> evidenced-based, and this is a significant problem to overcome.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ross
>
> References:
>
> [1] Botstein, D. It's the data! Mol. Biol. Cell 21, 4-6 (2010). URL
> http://dx.doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E09-07-0575.
> [2] Sidlauskas, B. et al. Linking big: The continuing promise of
> evolutionary synthesis. Evolution 64, 871-880 (2010). URL
> http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00892.x.
> [3] Kueffer, C. et al. Fame, glory and neglect in meta-analyses.
> Trends in Ecology & Evolution (2011). URL
> http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2011.07.007.
> [4] Piwowar, H.
> http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/indexing-citations/
> [5] Seeber, F. Citations in supplementary information are invisible.
> Nature 451, 887 (2008). URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/451887d.
>
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