I am presenting a talk in Poland today – although I am in Rome. http://www.eifl.net/events/open-science-education-conference-poland

Open science & education conference, Poland

13 Apr 2012 – 14 Apr 2012 Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) invites you to the Third International Conference on Open Access, that will take place on 13-14 April in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at Collegium Medicum NCU. This year’s theme is Open science and Open education. More information.

I hope to be on skype from Rome airport – it may be rather hairy.

I tried to create a set of slides and run an audio over them. I used Powerpoint, because it allowed narration easily. It was quite easy to create and I made a 6 minute introduction. But trying to upload it was a disaster – the upload is so asymmetric that it was taking hours and crashing. So I have changed the strategy.

We’ll play the first 6 minutes. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6280676/first.pptx

Then if we can’t skype it is worth playing the OKF/JennyMolloy/PMR video http://vimeo.com/31861413

If we can skype then Cameron Neylon has agreed to click through the points and links below while I speak.

Start with the “Academic Spring” The Guardian’s remarkable and remarkably apposite http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/09/wellcome-trust-academic-spring

General points

• 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 VERY topical
  
• 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
    

“Slide links” – bold is priority

• Our Panton Principles and Panton Fellowships http://pantonprinciples.org/
  
• The Panton Fellows
  http://science.okfn.org/2012/04/03/introducing-our-panton-fellows/
  
• Ross’ Mounce (Panton Fellow) on RCUK mandate
  http://access.okfn.org/2012/03/27/the-new-rcuk-draft-open-access-mandate/
  
• Ross on OKFN hackathon at the Barbican, London http://www.science3point0.com/palphy/
  
• Our new @access movement and website http://whoneedsaccess.org/latest-news/
  
• Wikversity http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page
• PLoS and Wikpedia team up http://wir.okfn.org/2012/03/29/plos-computational-biology-goes-wiki/
  
• OKFN and peer-2-peer university create a new Data Wrangling course http://blogs.p2pu.org/blog/2012/02/08/announcing-the-okfn-p2pu-school-of-data/
• Why traditional repositories aren’t open
  http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/repository/about/end_user_terms.html
• How data are critical for good science http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/04/10/biomarker_caution.php
  
• New repositories
• OKFN
  http://thedatahub.org/
• Dryad http://datadryad.org/
• Figshare
  http://figshare.com/
  http://precedings.nature.com/documents/7151/version/1
• Cooper’s ideas for Open Data Shariing http://figshare.com/articles/A_call_for_disruptive_innovation_in_science_publishing_with_a_new_open_data-sharing_platform_for_the_life_sciences/91541
• Textmining – the value (JISC) http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2012/value-and-benefits-of-text-mining.aspx
• Our textmining tools http://www.jcheminf.com/content/3/1/17
• Our textmining of Patents http://www.jcheminf.com/content/3/1/40

And a big thank you to everyone in Poland for their patience and to Cameron for helping