Making the Web work for science

Presented at the National data integrity conference: enabling research: new challenges & opportunities held on May 7-8, 2015 at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. Researchers, administrators and integrity officers are encountering new challenges regarding research data and integrity. This conference aims to provide attendees with both a high level understanding of these challenges and impart practical tools and skills to deal with them. Topics will include data reproducibility, validity, privacy, security, visualization, reuse, access, preservation, rights and management.Kaitlin Thaney is the Director, Mozilla Science Lab and on the Board of Directors, DataKind UK. Kaitlin is a technologist, open advocate, and data enthusiast - working to make scientific research more efficient. She has a keen interest in open science, data sharing and digital infrastructure, and works with policymakers, officials, institutions and researchers in a number of ways to help achieve that vision.PowerPoint presentation given on May 7, 2015

The open scholarship ecosystem faces collapse; it’s also our best hope for a more resilient future

The COVID-19 pandemic is significantly impacting universities and higher education institutions, reducing budgets and presenting new design challenges that will fundamentally alter how research and scholarship operate. Economic volatility is also constraining support for key systems and services that the academy relies on, especially those that are community-led. Kaitlin Thaney argues that there’s a need to converge on community-controlled open scholarship projects, to both meet the demands of the moment, and build a more resilient system for scholarly communication for future crisis situations, and invites readers to participate in planning how such systems can be maintained

Designing a Preparedness Model for the Future of Open Scholarship

Over the next 12-18 months, leading structures relied on to conduct, publish and disseminate scholarly research are at risk of collapse. We believe that there’s an urgent need to invest now in a coordinated approach to create a preparedness plan for the future of scholarship and research at the institutional level. In doing so, institutions have an opportunity to explore collectively cost-effective and sustainable solutions to address immediate needs at their institution. They also have an opportunity to play an active role in furthering a larger, more systemic shift towards open, community-owned and operated infrastructure at the institutional level to support scholarship and ensure research continuity. To support that shift, IOI has launched a research project in partnership with a network of institutional decision makers to model the future of open scholarship. This research is designed to address pending infrastructure consolidation and collapse across the research ecosystem, identifying the opportunities, leverage points, costs and approaches that could be employed to enable the following: * Creation of shared set of principles to help assess solutions based on a values-based framework; * Support that addresses heightened demands on universities as they shift operations online and transform the way they serve their communities; * Coordinated scenario planning that plans for a radical shift towards open scholarship and a convergence on existing, open tools and services; * Ways to pool resources and risk to maximize cost-effectiveness and minimize system failure; * Creation of a shared action plan to facilitate coordinated decision-making ensuring research continuity; * Bolster researcher productivity, continuity, and growth in both the near and long-term

How open science helps researchers succeed

Open access, open data, open source, and other open scholarship practices are growing in popularity and necessity. However, widespread adoption of these practices has not yet been achieved. One reason is that researchers are uncertain about how sharing their work will affect their careers. We review literature demonstrating that open research is associated with increases in citations, media attention, potential collaborators, job opportunities, and funding opportunities. These findings are evidence that open research practices bring significant benefits to researchers relative to more traditional closed practices

8. Science Commons: Building the Research Web

Science Commons, a project of Creative Commons (CC), works to encourage the sharing of scientific and academic knowledge. This chapter will look at the technology and infrastructure designed and used at Science Commons to better share knowledge, an approach contextualised here as ”building the research Web”, in the hope of utilising the power of current Internet technologies to accelerate scientific research. There are three main tenets to consider: open access to the content; access to the p..

Investing in the future of open infrastructure

Kaitlin Thaney, Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI), discusses the challenges and strategies involved in fostering community-centered open infrastructure, emphasising the importance of sustainable, accessible, and open systems to advance research and knowledge sharing. Kaitlin outlines the work of IOI, focusing on their research-driven approach, the development of a catalogue of open infrastructure services, and efforts to increase investment and support for these services. She highlights the challenges faced in funding, adoption, and implementation of open infrastructure, whilst emphasising the need for diverse funding sources and community-driven governance

Discoverability and web-enabled research

<p>help researchers use the<br> power of the open web to<br> change science’s future.</p

Grant proposal: EAGER: Investigating "reasonable costs" to achieve public access to federally funded research and scientific data

Grant proposal submitted by Invest in Open Infrastructure to the National Science Foundation (US) in May 2023. From the proposal summary: "This EAGER project will advance our knowledge of the costs involved in publishing US federally funded research outputs in a range of publicly accessible venues. Using a mixed research model, we will produce insights, tools, and intervention strategies to highlight and mitigate current disparities between institutions and researchers in different research tiers and institution types that may otherwise be exacerbated in the national effort to demonstrate compliance by 2025 with the OSTP Memo on Ensuring Free, Immediate and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research (Nelson 2022).

"The future of UK's digital infrastructure" survey results

<p>This fileset includes survey results from "The future of UK's digital infrastructure" survey, launched in late May 2012 to assess the baseline awareness, usage patterns and needs. The survey targets specifically those in the start-up community, academics looking to commercialise their work (spinouts), and SMEs. </p> <p>For more information, visit: <a href="http://www.digital-science.com/blog/posts/help-us-in-mapping-the-future-of-digital-infrastructure-in-the-uk">http://www.digital-science.com/blog/posts/help-us-in-mapping-the-future-of-digital-infrastructure-in-the-uk</a></p> <p>And for more on the Leadership Council: <a href="http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/science/science-funding/elc">http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/science/science-funding/elc</a></p> <p> </p

Janeway and Infrastructure

A talk at an IOI webinar on Building Technical Resilience in Open Infrastructure