[open-science] OFA Article on "Bottom-up creation of Open Scientific Knowledge"

Wed Jan 9 22:01:37 UTC 2013

Hey all,

2013/1/9 Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>

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> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Bastian Greshake <bgreshake at googlemail.com
> > wrote:
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>> Hi Peter,
>> I'm also interested in joining the writing. The propagation of citizen
>> science by aggregating and indexing the current scientific knowledge and
>> making raw data available is exactly what we're hoping to achieve with
>> openSNP. The project now runs for about 1 1/2 years and we're seeing the
>> first impact of how people are using the data made available.
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> Great!!
>
> I suspect that we will move towards a chapter with a general intro and
> then sections done by each contributor.
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> It may me a good idea for each contributor to think of a paragraph
> describing what they want to say and we'll try to hack a framework that
> glues it together.
>

Seems like the best thing to do, indeed. Who will be proofreading at the
end, btw?

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> We'll probably include things like:
> * citizen science
> * personal science (like SNPS)
> * self-aggregating communities (such as Open Malaria)
> * information-driven science
> * citizen analysis of public science data.
>
> etc.
>

This makes a quite impressive amount of topics to address :) And as Bastian
jumped in with openSNP, I was also mulling over parts about privacy as we
end up pretty naturally with uploading our genome data on github or the
likes. I hope there will be a decent word count allowed ;)

Last but not least: what is the deadline for a rough cut of the whole?

As for the practicalities: a Doodle to schedule the kick-off confcall? As
all of us except Sidhar are in Europe timezones, we should perhaps try the
week-ends better?

Have a nice evening :)
Rayna

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>> Cheers,
>> Bastian
>>
>> On Jan 9, 2013, at 14:20 , Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
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>> > I (and a number of OKFers) am a fellow of the Open Forum Academy, a
>> group centered on open Standards and practice primarily in IT but also
>> related fields. One of their outputs is an Open book with contributed
>> chapters. In the first book Jenny Molloy , Diane Cabell and I wrote a
>> chapter on Open Content Mining see:
>> > http://openforumacademy.org/library/ofa-fellows-reference-library
>> >
>> > I have now volunteered another chapter on "Bottom-up creation of Open
>> Scientific Knowledge" and they are happy to publish this. Is anyone
>> interested in being a co-author? We would have an OKF affiliation as well
>> as our day jobs.
>> >
>> > I proposed this on the basis that we have the means to create our own
>> knowledge (whether directly of indirectly). This could include things like:
>> > * citizen science
>> > * aggregation and indexing of current open scientific knowledge
>> >
>> > I want to get across the idea that we now do not have to have science
>> sanctioned from the top down. Suggest you mail this list with ideas and
>> we'll find a skype time.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Peter Murray-Rust
>> > Reader in Molecular Informatics
>> > Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
>> > University of Cambridge
>> > CB2 1EW, UK
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> Peter Murray-Rust
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> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
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