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

Mon Apr 2 15:45:25 UTC 2012

The lens I put on this marvelous thread is a bifocal one: knowledge
federation [1] and knowledge gardening, about which I have a few
slides [2] with more coming. If any aspect of either of those raises
questions, I'd be happy to contribute to this conversation.

Jack
[1] http://www.knowledgefederation.org/
[2] http://slideshare.net/jackpark/

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>
>> [apologies for length of post, but it's a big topic]
>
>
> 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?
>
>
>
>>
>>
> --
> Peter Murray-Rust
> Reader in Molecular Informatics
> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
> CB2 1EW, UK
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>
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