Comments on: Provocative Ideas from Science Commons Symposium Pacific Northwest

By: Lisa Green

Lisa Green — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:55:24 +0000

Alison This is a wonderful post! Leave it to a librarian to have such a well-organized, thorough summary with annotation
Lisa

By: Jean-Claude Bradley

Jean-Claude Bradley — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:10:20 +0000

Alison – excellent summary! This will be very useful for people curious to know what went on – while waiting for the recordings to be posted.

By: Hope Leman

Hope Leman — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:09:43 +0000

Hi, all. Just want to add that it was really gratifying to see such a large turnout of librarians at an Open Science-centered event. It really was my hope (now fulfilled!) to see people like Alison Aldrich and Antony Williams (AKA ChemSpiderman) engaging in fruitful dialog about the whole panoply of the Open movements. As Antony says, “Watch this space…”

I think what made the Science Commons Symposium so successful was the fact that not only are the speakers leaders in their fields, but they are also very friendly, approachable, personable people. It made for a relaxed, collegial atmosphere. And what a nice bunch of attendees—talk about engaged and interesting.

Here are two scholars whose work I recommend as background for those interested in attending next year’s symposium (and yes, indeed, we hope to make this an annual event!). I have met Victoria Stodden and am very much impressed by her work (she is a Science Commons fellow). Many of her papers can be accessed here:

http://www.stanford.edu/~vcs/Papers.html

This one, “The Scientific Method in Practice: Reproducibility in the Computational Sciences” is hot off the presses, for instance:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1550193##

And at the symposium, I actually got to meet and talk to the up-and-coming biomedical informatician Heather Piwowar who does work similar to Stodden’s only from the biomedical viewpoint rather than the technological/legal one of Stodden. Some of Piwowar’s work can be found here:

http://www.researchremix.org/wordpress/publications/

And an example of an active young scientist who is putting many of Jean-Claude Bradley’s Open Notebook Science techniques into practice (just as Bradley himself does—Bradley is both a thinker and an innovative educator) is Steve Koch:

http://stevekochscience.blogspot.com/

Incidentally, one of the best ways to follow the doings of the Open Science world is via the lively discussions that occur daily in the Life Scientists room of FriendFeed:

http://friendfeed.com/the-life-scientists

Finally, one of the leading thinkers on the topic of the future of science in the age of Open Science is Michael Nielsen:

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/michael-a-nielsen/

Thank you again, Alison, for your comprehensive report and astute commentary.

By: Alison Aldrich

Alison Aldrich — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:48:48 +0000

Thanks, ChemSpiderman! My notes are not very copious at all… mostly I was just trying to keep up. I was very grateful for Brian Glanz’s liveblogging and to the Twitter stream for jogging my memory.

By: ChemSpiderman

ChemSpiderman — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:11:58 +0000

Alison…you must have taken copious notes or you have an amazing memory for what was said that day. It was a wonderful meeting for me. I felt very privileged to be a speaker with such a panel of speakers but in addition as the day progressed and each speaker added their comments to the day it became even more clear that we are in a time of enormous change and Open Access, Open Science and Open Data are seeds that are growing at an incredible rate. Watch this space…

By: Hope Leman

Hope Leman — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:07:13 +0000

Hi, Alison. Wow–what a superb overview! I have printed it out and will read it at leisure. I appreciate the trouble you have gone to summarize the proceedings of that jam-packed day. I hope to respond at greater length. In the meantime, here are some links to posts by several of the speakers you mention:

http://cameronneylon.net/blog/the-panton-principles-finding-agreement-on-the-public-domain-for-published-scientific-data/

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2010/02/science-commons-symposium-thoughts.html

http://www.chemspider.com/blog/presentation-at-the-science-commons-symposium-pacific-northwest-scspn.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ChemspiderBlog+(ChemSpider+Blog)&utm_content=Twitter