Leveraging the power of the web - Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Conference

kaitlin thaney
@kaythaney ; @mozillascience
RMACC / 12 aug 2015
leveraging the power
of the web for science

doing good is part of our code

help researchers leverage
the power of the open web.

learning around
open source, data sharing
needed to further open practice;
empowering others to lead in
their communities.

code
(interop)
community
(people)
code/data literacy
(means to learn/engage)

our current systems are
creating friction.
despite original intentions.

current state of science
articles
data
patents

some have a ﬁrehose
articles
data
patents

quality versus quantity
measured systems

Source: Michener, 2006 Ecoinformatics.

what does
“web literacy”
mean for research?

communication
access, reuse, scale
distributed environment
the web as a platform

- access to content, data, code, materials.
- emergence of “web-native” tools.
- rewards for openness, interoperability, collaboration, sharing.
- push for ROI, reuse, recomputability, transparency.
“web-enabled research”

research social capital capacity
infrastructure layers for
open research
open tools
standards
best practices
research objects
scientiﬁc software
repositories
incentives
recognition / P&T
interdisciplinarity
collaboration
community dialogue
training
mentorship
professional dev
new policies
recognition
stakeholders: universities, researchers,
tool dev, funders, publishers, libraries...

putting open ideals into practice
(+ paying it forward)
https://commonspace.wordpress.com/2015/07/15/web-literacy-and-leadership/

service learning: n. hands-
on, experiential learning
where people develop skills
by working on a project in
service of a bigger goal.
http://bit.ly/1JTMBSb

learning from (+ through)
open source
development
examples of “science like the web”
in practice

code as a research object
what’s needed to reuse ?
http://bit.ly/mozﬁggit

<institutional archives>
<national archives>
<code repos>
syndication and storage
(via APIs)

http://softwarediscoveryindex.org/report/

open, iterative
development
the “work in progress” effect

http://openresearchbadges.org/

http://mozillascience.org/contributorship-badges-a-new-project/

fostering a (sustainable)
community of practitioners

how do we amplify within
research?
(... and beyond software
development?)

community-driven contributorship
http://mozillascience.github.io/leadership-training/

mozillascience.org/collaborate

2 days, 30+ cities, 53+ hours
http://bit.ly/1N331JV

100+ pull requests
(code, content, learning resources)
http://bit.ly/1N331JV

https://www.mozillascience.org/fellows

how do we build
capacity?
furthering adoption of
open, web-enabled research

rewards, incentives,
reputation

supports needed for
“professional development”

“Reliance on
ad-hoc, self-
education
about what’s
possible
doesn’t scale.”
- Selena Decklemann

https://mozillascience.github.io/studyGroupHandbook/

lowering barriers to entry
(+ leveling the playing ﬁeld)

we have a history of
working collaboratively.
(but there’s room for improvement.)

63 nations
10,000 scientists
50,000 participants
can we do the same / better
for research on the web?

think beyond access, to
usability.
design for interoperability.
remember the
non-technical challenges.

we’re here to help.
http://mozillascience.org
sciencelab@mozillafoundation.org

kaitlin@mozillafoundation.org
@kaythaney ; @mozillascience
special thanks:

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