Open Infrastructure for Open Science/Data; and Academic Spring

I am presenting this afternoon in Rome to an important group of science-oriented people/organizations – about 70 people will be there. As always I try to talk to people before the presentation. I’ve got 20 minutes, and I want to get across both ideas and examples. So I can’t do it all. This is my “checklist” for things I think are important. (Almost all my “slides” are scraped from the web and I will publish the links shortly in a separate blog).

• Most science research/data is never properly published or used => Bad science, duplication
  
• This costs/loses 100 Billion+ per year; so HUGE opportunities for new business/products. Europe or Silicon Valley??
  
• The long-tail of science; scholarship OUTSIDE academia?
  
• Conventional publication does not work for data
  
• Diversity. No single solution. Communities of scholarship. HEP, Astronomy, Chemistry
  
• Domain repositories essential; Inst Repos don’t work for science
  
• OPEN. Must be BOAI-compliant: use CC-BY/CC0
  
• Are universities the solution or the problem?
  
• Sustainability. Funders and National Laboratories
  
• Mandates are poor instruments; Culture must change. Rewards?
  
• Create an author-centric culture/technology. Semantic documents. “ScienceForge”
  
• Sustainability. Alliance with wealth-generation industries?
  
• Text-mining
  
• Theses. Must become centralised semantic, Europe?? NL++, UK–
  
• Demos: text-mining, repositories
  
• Growing points:
  
  • Open (Web) Technology continues to advance
    
  • Linked Open Data / Semantic Web
    
  • Graduate students
    
  • Scholarly poor
    
  • Wikip(m)edia
    
  • Open Knowledge Foundation