Typed/Scraped/dictated into Arcturus
On one of the great things about working in an open environment is that you can keep a complete record of everything you’ve done immediately. In the Open Knowledge Foundation we use a tool called Ether Pad (there is a similar one called Pirate Pad). Anyone just sets up a site and types on it; anyone else can edit anywhere in the document at the same time. You can see other people typing at the same time as you application you get clashes but it’s all quite good humoured. Different authors are marked with different colours.
To date we had our monthly meeting on open-science at the OKF and he agenda was created on the ether pad (http://okfnpad.org/science-20100804 ). We had a long agenda but were able to get through it in just about an hour despite real life fire alarms. One of the items discussed was the Panton Papers and I’m transcribing that item for the blog. As you can see the numbers of ideas have grown and will continue to grow. We are starting to get custodians, or editors, for each item.
As with all OKF activities anybody can join in. The best thing to do is to join one or more of the OKF mailing lists.
Panton Papers which are short outlines of critical issues in science
(no particular order yet) – ok, let’s not number them, then, but use keyword tags (freer sorting)
These should help guide policymakers, scientists and everyone. They should try to pre-empt messy incomplete solutions from elsewhere. Examples that need clear guidance
(and are increasingly topical).
– PPaper WhatIs: What is scientific data? (as opposed to argument, creative diagrams, discourse, etc.) ACTION: Mike (Petermr may contribute from JISC-XYZ project which involves BMC and we would do analyses of BMC papers), Claudia
– PPaper OwnAnyone: Who owns data? Anyone? [hm, this question implies that anyone does, maybe find a more neutral question without any such implication? maybe: “Are data owned by anyone?”] ACTION: Greg, Claudia, …
– PPaper WhenShare: When can *I* have *”your”* data? Does this relate to (scholarly?) publication [what *is* “publication” – is this concept in any way different for “data” and “non-data”? (see PP WhatIs)] ACTION:
– PPaper Mining: Data-and text-mining from scholarly publications
ACTION: PMR to catalyze this.
– PPaper Repro: Reproducibility in scientific data analysis and calculations
ACTION: Daniel
Victoria Stodden wrote a relevant article on this? http://www.stanford.edu/~vcs/papers/ERROLSI03092009.pdf ACTION: ask Victoria Stodden in: Daniel
– PPaper ReqFunders: Data sharing requirements by major research funders
ACTION: Daniel
– PPaper WhyShare: Why should *I* share *my* data?
may fit well directly after PP WhatIs or OwnAnyone
ACTION: Iain, Mike, Daniel
– PPaper AchieveRepro: Why data sharing is not enough to achieve reproducibility (possibly to be combined with PPaper Repro)
ACTION:
– PPaper BestWayto: What is the best way to share my data? Standards/ Platforms / Logistics / usefulness
Related to repository question? possibly, but not necessarily, maybe SR/IR are the containers we can think of today, but next generation ideas might be helpful, too? so maybe keep the two papers separate for exactly this reason? ACTION: Mike, Claudia
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Data_repositories
– PPaper DataSR/IR: (Subject)Discipline or Institutional repositories? (http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2519)
ACTION: Claudia, …
– PPaper ChangeStart: Do my data collecting methods change when producing Open Data right from the start? ACTION:
– PPaper ChangeQA: “open data will probably be used to answer questions that are different to those for which the data was generated” (Andrew Treolar) http://ff.im/od9Wc
ACTION:
Example of a BMC article collection
http://www.biomedcentral.com/series/FANTOM4
BMC Research Notes would likely be the best venue to publish the PPapers (http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcresnotes/) Bill Hooker, Donat Agosti and Andrew Vickers, for example, are on the Editorial Board and could be potential contributors. ACTION: Iain to discuss with them
# <please insert more PP ideas here>
PMR will blog this item and offer the world to read this Pad and contribute to it.
See http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2510 for current state of published PP draft-drafts. Some community feedback on where repos should be:
http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2505
http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2519
.NB: BMC (IanH) are tentatively offering to publish PPapers. Probably need OKF author(s) for each topic. Also need to agree rough set of PPapers Huge field but we should lay it out before the bitwise messiness starts. More ideas for PPapers urgent.
On the condition that they will be peer reviewed BMC is keen to publish them in Research Notes.
You’ll see that we hope to get these formally published and this therefore represents a new way of authoring peer-reviewed publications. (Of course it doesn’t apply to those publishers who refuse manuscripts where any word has appeared in public beforehand).