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Somewhat more complete report on BioSysBio workshop

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This has taken me longer than expected to write up. Julius Lucks, John Cumbers, and myself lead a workshop on Open Science on Monday 21st at the BioSysBio meeting at Imperial College London.  I had hoped to record screencast, audio, and possibly video as well but in the end the laptop I am working off couldn’t cope with both running the projector and Camtasia at the same time with reasonable response rates (its a long story but in theory I get my ‘proper’ laptop back tomorrow so hopefully better luck next time). We had somewhere between 25 and 35 people throughout most of the workshop and the feedback was all pretty positive. What I found particularly exciting was that, although the usual issues of scooping, attribution, and the general dishonestly of the scientific community were raised, they were only in passing, with a lot more of the discussion focussing on practical issues. Continue reading “Somewhat more complete report on BioSysBio workshop”

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BioSysBio conference and workshop

Tomorrow myself and a few of the usual suspects, who I have finally met in person are giving a workshop on ‘Open Science’ as part of BioSysBio 2008. If anyone else who I haven’t met yet is about at the meeting then feel free to introduce yourself, even if you can’t make it to the workshop. The workshop abstract is up on OpenWetWare if you want to have a look. I hope to be able to record screencast and video of the session to make it available to all of you who can’t make it. If you want to make comments in advance or raise any issues then drop a comment here or in the usual places.

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More on FuGE and data models for lab notebooks

Frank Gibson has posted again in our ongoing conversation about using FUGE as a data model for laboratory notebooks. We have also been discussing things by email and I think we are both agreed that we need to see what actually doing this would look like. Frank is looking at putting some of my experiments into a FUGE framework and we will see how that looks. I think that will be the point where we can really make some progress. However here I wanted to pick up on a couple of points he has made in his last post. Continue reading “More on FuGE and data models for lab notebooks”

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Open Science at BioSysBio – London 20-22 April

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.