Abstract: Despite the dazzling development of the open access movement, open data initiatives in science and research are still trailing in involvement. Additionally, disparities in research data sharing and openness are huge across scientific communities and domains. Last but not least, formats and licensing terms greatly vary even within specific field. This talk will wrap-up current initiatives and achievements prior to highlighting the challenges ahead in front of a wide number of stakeholders. The middle-term goal is to bootstrap connections converging to a true institutional change that leads to more participative, shareable and transparent science: the science of tomorrow. Original link to the event: http://www.openworldforum.org/fr/tracks/17#talk_113

1. Data Love in
Science & Research
Rayna Stamboliyska, PhD
Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity,
Paris Descartes Universtity
Open Knowledge Foundation France

2. Science and the City
1957
●
12% of public understand
scientific approach
●
38% knew the Moon was smaller
than Earth
●
44% agreed science will solve
social problems
=> Low knowledge but support
for science
(Withney 1959)

3. Science and the City
1957
●
12% of public understand
scientific approach
●
38% knew the Moon was smaller
than Earth
●
44% agreed science will solve
social problems
=> Low knowledge but support
for science
(Withney 1959)
2008
●
70+ % of public believes benefits
greater than harm
●
80+ % consider science has to
receive public funding
●
climate and food biotech
scientists should participate more
=> Deep optimism and public
trust in science
(Nat'l Science Board 2008)

4. What exactly is Open Science?
Free/Open Source software
+
Open research data
+
Open Access publications
+
Open lab notebooks

5. What exactly is Open Science?
Free/Open Source software + Open research data
+ Open Access publications + Open lab notebooks
Fundamental goals:
• Open-sourced tools to enable reproducibility
●
Public accessibility and transparency of scientific
communication
• Transparency in experimental methodology,
observation, and collection of data.
• Public availability and reusability of scientific data.

6. Need Free and
Open Source?
Nature, 2010

7. We can haz Open Source!
France, 2013
But nowhere else in the EU...
#FAIL

8. Once upon a time...

9. Once upon a time...

11. We can haz Open Access!
Yet...
The article is the
advertisment of the
scholarly contribution

12. Open Data for science
●
Availability and Access: people can get the
data
●
Re-use and Redistribution: people can reuse
and share the data
●
Universal Participation: anyone can use the
data
(the Open Definition, by the Open Knowledge Foundation, 2005)

13. Need Open Data?

14. Need Open Data?
[…] Papers with publicly available data received about 9%
more citations overall, with the difference increasing over
time. The researchers concluded that much of this citation
difference was due to actual data reuse.
"Data reuse and the open citation advantage", H. Piwowar and T. Vision, PeerJ 2013

15. Steal this data
(you already paid for it)
[…] information already paid for by the public purse
should not be paid for again each time it is accessed or
used.
[…] Policies on open access to scientific research results
should apply to all research that receives public funds.
The European Commission, Recommendation for the preservation and access to scientific
research, 2012

16. The Fifth freedom
Data Cake metaphor by Mark Johnstone

17. Thank you!