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Open Science at BioSysBio – London 20-22 April

1 April 2008 4 Comments

As part of the BioSysBio meeting being held in London 20-22 of April, Mattias Rantalainen kindly asked me to contribute to a workshop on Open Science being held on the Wednesday. A number of OpenWetWare people including Julius Lucks and John Cumbers have agreed to come on board to help. You can see the draft abstract which is up at OpenWetWare. If you are the meeting do come along either to cheer us along in our quest to enthuse the next generation of scientists about Open Stuff or to argue with us about the details of how to do it. I wanted to flag two things up here. One is that we propose to start thrashing out a ‘Protocol for Open Science’; a charter of rights and responsibilities that we hope we can agree as a community to adopt as a standard, or perhaps set of standards.

I don’t imagine this will be an easy process but the aim is to start to define the issues with the aim of taking this forward over the next 12-18 months. An initial draft will be put forward at the workshop and will be made available for community discussion.

More practically Julius has set up an openscience email list based at OpenWetWare. You can sign up just by adding your OWW username to the wiki List page (you do have to be a member of OWW but this is just a matter of signing up). This will be useful for carrying on the conversation not just about standards but also about the all the issue surrounding being open.

I propose the tag osci-protocol to capture the blog based discussion and other discussion.


4 Comments »

  • Duncan Hull said:

    Hi Cameron, on the subject of protocols for open science, you should take a look at the Mininum Information standards (MIBBI) if you haven’t seen them already. They have a paper out in Nature Biotechnology on Promoting Coherent Minimum Reporting Requirements for Biological and Biomedical Investigations which you might find useful. A lot of this stuff might be useful for the Open Science community.

    # 2 April 2008 at 1:22 pm
  • Duncan Hull said:

    Hi Cameron, on the subject of protocols for open science, you should take a look at the Mininum Information standards (MIBBI) if you haven’t seen them already. They have a paper out in Nature Biotechnology on Promoting Coherent Minimum Reporting Requirements for Biological and Biomedical Investigations which you might find useful. A lot of this stuff might be useful for the Open Science community.

    # 2 April 2008 at 1:22 pm
  • Cameron Neylon said:

    Going forward we will definitely need to engage with MIBBI and other organisations (Science Commons and Open Knowledge Foundation are obvious examples) but I think their aims are somewhat orthogonal to the issues we want to tackle.

    Things like adherence to NIH Open Access Mandate versus Open Access only publication and reasonable responses to requests as well as the main one; when and how do you make the raw data and protocols available will be the main focus I think. Other views?

    # 2 April 2008 at 2:00 pm
  • Cameron Neylon said:

    Going forward we will definitely need to engage with MIBBI and other organisations (Science Commons and Open Knowledge Foundation are obvious examples) but I think their aims are somewhat orthogonal to the issues we want to tackle.

    Things like adherence to NIH Open Access Mandate versus Open Access only publication and reasonable responses to requests as well as the main one; when and how do you make the raw data and protocols available will be the main focus I think. Other views?

    # 2 April 2008 at 2:00 pm