[open-science] looking for high-impact success stories of open science

Mon Jan 14 17:57:52 UTC 2013

All, thanks for the *great* input, both on the email list and on the gDoc.
Some clarifications:
- we don't focus on open access as it's already well known, we're more interested on open data / code / notebooks / workflows etc
- the current approach for the presentation is to have 3 stories of discoveries done thanks to open science (incl. Human Genome Project); and 3 major scientific errors due to lack of openness.
- then I give some data points about uptake; and 
- elaborate on the barriers: career mechanisms centered on publishing, and IPR 

Finally, I personally don't have the time to work on open science stories myself though. But will contribute content to it. 
best
david

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On 13 Jan 2013, at 02:03, Jenny Molloy wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 4:40 PM, david osimo <david.osimo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> By the way: why don't we build opensciencestories.org?
> 
> Excellent idea! I will start the ball rolling for the working group to register the domain and would encourage everyone to continue sending in their own stories for David's presentation, we can hopefully get longer write ups of these to post. Paolo's point about not focusing only on success stories is valid, although I'm not sure this site would be appropriate for the stories raised in that thread, it would certainly be interesting to hear about where open science projects have encountered problems and lessons have been learnt. I have at least two stories in mind, one based on a talk by Anna Croft at OKCon 2011 about difficulties encountered trying to integrate open approaches into the university curriculum and get undergrads working openly on their projects and another about the Malaria Atlas Project where data licensing became an issue leading to a long slog contacting hundreds of data providers for a second time in order to release the datasets openly (talk by Catherine Moyes, Dryad UK Workshop 2011). 
> 
> Jenny

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