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This file hosts a contribution to the Orientation Day organized by the Data Science Institute at the University of Virginia for its Presidential Fellows. It is to be presented on 23 August 2019 from about 2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. EDT in the Research Collaboration Corner (also know as the Corner Building; see map).

Title

Open & FAIR practices for sharing research all along the research cycle, both with humans and machines

Abstract

Human societies engage in research in order to advance their understanding and mastering of the world they live in. This involves sharing of various aspects of research. Starting from the research results and the underlying methodology, more and more aspects of research are now being shared, often with communities much broader than classical research teams.

In this talk, we will zoom in on various individual steps of a number of research cycles and examine ways in which these steps have been or could have been shared, and what kinds of reuses are being enabled by such sharing. The examples will be drawn from various fields, e.g. public health emergencies, Babylonian archaeology or meteorology.

How do data science and open research go together?

The research data life cycle

  • can be framed in many ways
  • key components: plan get permissions get funding get infrastructure collect metadata collect data process data analyze data publish curate data preserve data reuse metadata find data access data reuse data reproduce data delete data
  • exact arrangement can and does vary
  • frequent 'rinse and repeat'

What does it mean to open it up?

  • no single publishing step within the cycle, since every intermediate step is an opportunity to share
  • video

Some of my activities in this space

Open data as a central element of an open research ecosystem

Listen to open data

Research in progress

Penguin walking through data bridge

Scottish book of mathematics Euromaidan in Kiev Train ticket collection Supercomputer Gravitational waves Ernst Abbe monument Fluorescent fish Zika virus under electron microscope The bookworm Solar eclipse warning road sign Data humor Curious onlookers Soap bubbles Chimpanzee in thoughts Sustainable Development Goals Wikidata geocoding
reproducibility = f(data, metadata, code, …) reusability = g(data, metadata, code, …) open workflows are an invitation to collaborate, early and often

Beyond open data

  • FAIR: making research Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable for both humans and machines
    • metadata should be open by default
    • the corresponding data should be as closed as necessary

Zooming in

How to discover research that is being performed now or planned for the near future?

Image credits

All images are linked to pages with metadata about them, including licensing information. The licensing is always compatible with the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

See also