[open-science] github/R stack for the nomadic researcher

Mon Apr 2 07:05:02 UTC 2012

Tom,
This is a really valuable post. I feel your concerns directly. I have
copied in our new Panton fellows (though I am sure they read this list
anyway!)

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com> wrote:

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> [apologies for length of post, but it's a big topic]
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No apologies needed!

I am giving an important presentation to  Europe "Open Infrastructures for
Open Science" and Neelie Kroes and others will be there. I am getting my
thoughts together as I have to give the plenary that informs the rest of
the workshop. Currently my thoughts are:

   - Europe (and the world) is losing 10 billion + in unused and restricted
   data. (I said this to Hargreaves)
   - We MUST have easily accessible research repositories, probably on a
   domain basis (Dryad, Pangaea, TARDIS, etc.)
   - Institutional Repos do not work for STM and never will
   - Mandates are a blunt weapon and so far have little effectiveness
   - Non-Commercial destroys knowledge

We must give the researchers something they want. Sourceforge does this for
code. I use Sourceforge (actually now Bitbucket and Github) several times a
day. All my code is backed up, shareable, reusable, validated etc.

   - There must be a "Data forge" for Europe. Figshare was built by one
   graduate student in one year. I would give 3rd year graduate students
   funding to do this - it's a hundred times more cost effective than
   repositories.

I'd like to collect ideas on this llist and present them next week (11th).
An OKF data manifesto for Open Science (in Europe) Who knows what might
come?

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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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