Outreach: Open Science Values and Practice - petermr/CEVOpen Wiki

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Summary:

Abstract:  Science increasingly plays a part in tackling many of the world's problems - gathering knowledge, analysing it objectively, creating new artefacts and procedures, and disseminating the results. Many of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have a need for science, applied for the benefit of the world. Yet current scientific practice is often inequitable and neocolonialist, weighted in favour of rich (Northern) nations with barriers which exclude the others.

But in the digital century science can belong to everyone, regardless of nationality, age, geography, language. Open science can be inclusive and meritocratic. Openness means:

  • available to all
  • deliberately transparent
  • reusable (with acknowledgment)
  • immediate
  • discoverability Digital allows much greater sharing of resources - computation, and access to equipment. For hardware and reagents, Open scientists are often able to bring down costs dramatically.

This presentation will concentrate on creation of, and access to, scientific knowledge. The values are critical:

  • scientists need to want to share knowledge. Ranganathan's laws of the library: "save the time of the reader" and "every reader their book" are technically possible
  • the sharing has to be frictionless. Logins, gatekeepers, create massive friction.
  • paraphrasing Ranganathan: "the knowledge system [library] should be a growing community" But too few in modern science think of this. The values have been warped by greed and vanity [5] and the Global North thinks more of career progression and corporate profits. Scientists in the Global South can either publish for free or read for free but not both. Prices (not costs) of 3000 USD-12000 to publish a paper are created with no regard to a global science community.

We must reset our values to put the world first and fast - if we do not, then global problems will overwhelm us. Open Science is a key part of our toolset. But "Open" is a broad and often misused label ("openwashing"). True Openness - such as in Open Notebook Science - brings major benefits:

  • inclusivity. The whole world can be involved in knowledge creation and dissemination
  • Continual improvement. Ideas and data can be shared, developed, tested and grow much faster than in a single person's computer.
  • immediacy. Open Science is conducted in full view of the world.
  • completeness and permanency. Openly created science does not get mislaid, or miscopied, or corrupted.
  • speed.

We will illustrate many of these principles with our projects with extract raw text and synthesize it into semantic knowledge:

Open Science and Open Source share many values. We have built Open Source software to extract and process science from published papers and have worked to make this frictionless. The system pygetpapers and pyami can search for and automatically download many hundreds of Open Access articles - "in minutes". These are made semantic and annotated with Wikidata/Wikipedia-based "dictionaries" available in many different languages. The design gives control to the reader, rather than the provider and allows many types of analysis and display. We hope to give a short demo and we are keen to get feedback.

Link:

https://github-wiki-see.page/m/petermr/CEVOpen/wiki/Outreach%3A-Open-Science-Values-and-Practice

Updated:

10/25/2021, 12:26

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oa.new oa.open_science oa.floss oa.extraction oa.semantic oa.benefits oa.notebooks oa.speed oa.sdgs oa.dei oa.south

Date tagged:

10/25/2021, 16:27

Date published:

08/13/2021, 12:26