Dear All<br><br>Quite a few open-sciencers are heading to Science Online London (<a href="http://www.scienceonlinelondon.org/">http://www.scienceonlinelondon.org/</a>) in September. Check out the participant list on the Eventbrite page <a href="http://solo11.eventbrite.com/">http://solo11.eventbrite.com/</a> and book one of the few remaining tickets if you'd also like to come!<br>
<br>They are still accepting ideas for break out sessions - are there any ideas we could put forward? You can check out the current suggestions here <a href="http://scienceonlinelondon.wikidot.com/">http://scienceonlinelondon.wikidot.com/</a> (ones we shouldn't overlap with pasted below signature!)<br>
<br>Any and all suggestions welcome, I'm hoping we can add something to their wiki in the next couple of days as they are currently finalising the programme.<br><br>Jenny<br><br><br>Current suggestions in the area of open data in science are:<br>
<p><strong>3. Can we develop something like a <a href="http://schema.org">schema.org</a> in science to encourage data sharing and reuse?</strong><br>
<a href="http://kauppinen.net/tomi">Tomi Kauppinen</a> (University of Muenster, Germany)<br>
— see <a href="http://linkedscience.org/">LinkedScience.org</a> and <a href="http://lodum.de/">LODUM.de</a><br>
— contact: tomi.kauppinen (at) <a href="http://uni-muenster.de">uni-muenster.de</a><br>
— twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/LinkedScience">@linkedscience</a><br></p>
<strong>15. Open Research Reports: a model for open access to key facts within subscription journals.</strong><br>
David Shotton (<span style="visibility: visible;" class="wiki-email"><a href="mailto:david.shotton@zoo.ox.ac.uk">david.shotton@zoo.ox.ac.uk</a></span>; @dshotton) and Tanya Gray, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.<br>
People in developing countries often lack free access to academic journals, limiting availability of biomedical information (<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2811%2960066-4">1</a>, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2811%2960067-6">2</a>). Our vision for Open Research Reports on Tropical Infectious Diseases (e.g. <em>Open Research Reports on Leptospirosis</em>, <em>Open Research Reports on Malaria</em>)
is that these instant journals will provide open access to the key
facts within the most cited papers on tropical infectious diseases. We
will demonstrate a prototype of Open Research Reports published using
WordPress. Each Open Research Report, structured according to <a href="http://www.miidi.org/">MIIDI</a>,
our Minimal Information standard for reporting an Infectious Disease
Investigation, will be created by a domain expert using the MIIDI
Editor, which accesses underlying ontologies such as <a href="http://infectiousdiseaseontology.org/">IDO</a>.
It will be a structured digital abstract summarizing the key facts and
conclusions contained within a single journal article, and will be
published both in human-readable form and as embedded RDFa. The Open
Research Reports concept and methodology is generic, and could be
reapplied in other domains, such as climate change. The role of Open
Research Reports in education could be massive: e.g. Open Readings in
Leptospirosis, bundling Open Research Reports with open access articles
to develop free course packs for teaching in developing countries.<br><br><strong>21. Research data? More than my job's worth…</strong><br>
Jonathan Tedds, University of Leicester (<span style="visibility: visible;" class="wiki-email"><a href="mailto:jat26@le.ac.uk">jat26@le.ac.uk</a></span>, @jtedds)<br>
Science online means research data online, and lots of it. Interlinked,
interweaving & interoperable ideally but more likely granular,
opaque & unattributed. The challenges around managing all this data
are becoming better recognised, witness the recently agreed <a href="http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/DataPolicy.aspx">Research Councils UK common data priniciples</a>. But as I argued in a recent <a href="http://exquisitelife.researchresearch.com/exquisite_life/2011/02/researchers-dont-fight-the-data-management-battle-alone.html">Research Fortnight article (Feb 11)</a>,
a key challenge is to identify who's responsible for managing all this
data and at which points during the research life cycle. Are traditional
academic structures up to the job?<br>