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

Thu Jan 10 07:42:49 UTC 2013

Dear all,

This is evolving really good :D I think that from our Citizen Cyberscience
Centre we will be also taking some time to collaborate on this. I'll double
check with my other colleagues and let you know.

Cheers,

Daniel

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Rayna <rayna.st at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
>
> 2013/1/9 Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Bastian Greshake <
>> bgreshake at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Great!!
>>
>> I suspect that we will move towards a chapter with a general intro and
>> then sections done by each contributor.
>>
>> 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?
>
>
>
>>
>> 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
>
>
>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Bastian
>>>
>>> On Jan 9, 2013, at 14:20 , Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
>>>
>>> > 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
>> Reader in Molecular Informatics
>> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
>> University of Cambridge
>> CB2 1EW, UK
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