e-research and the demise of the scholarly article
DESCRIPTION
Innovations 2013 - e-Science, we-Science and the latest evolutions in e-publishing. STM International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers. 4th December 2013, Congress Centre, Great Russell Street, London, UK.TRANSCRIPT
David De Roure
e-Research and the Demise of the Scholarly Article
A revolutionary idea…Open Science!
More people
Mor
e m
achi
nes
This is a Fourth Quadrant Talk
Big DataBig Compute
Conventional Computation
The Future!
SocialNetworking
e-infrastructure
onlineR&D
The Fourth Quadrant
David De Roure
Chr
istin
e B
orgm
an
F i r s t
Research Councils UK
Notifications and automatic re-runs
Machines are users too
Autonomic
Curation
Self-repair
New research?
Scientists
TalkForum
ImageClassification
data reduction
Citizen Scientists
Edwards, P. N., et al. (2013) Knowledge Infrastructures: Intellectual Frameworks and Research Challenges. Ann Arbor: Deep Blue. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/97552
http://www.scilogs.com/eresearch/pages-of-history/ David De Roure
http://ww
w.scilogs.com
/eresearch/pages-of-history/D
avid
De
Ro
ure
1. It was no longer possible to include the evidence in the paper – container failure!
“A PDF exploded today when a scientist tried to paste in the twitter firehose…”
2. It was no longer possible to reconstruct a scientific experiment based on a paper alone
3. Writing for increasingly specialist audiences restricted essential multidisciplinary re-use
Grand Challenge Areas:• Energy• Living with Environmental Change• Global Uncertainties• Lifelong Health and Wellbeing• Digital Economy• Nanoscience• Food Security• Connected Communities• Resilient Economy
4. Research records needed to be readable by computer to support automation and curation
A computationally-enabled sense-making network of expertise, data, models and narratives.
5. Single authorship gave way to casts of thousands
6. Quality control models scaled poorly with the increasing volume
Filter, Publish, Filter, Publish, …Like big data, publishing has increasing volume, variety and velocityBut what about veracity?
7. Alternative reporting necessary for compliance with regulations
One piece of research may have multiple reports and multiple narratives for multiple readerships, in multiple formats and languages(Computer are readers too!)
8. Research funders frustrated by inefficiencies in scholarly communication
An investment is only worthwhile if• Outputs are discoverable• Outputs are reusable…and preferably outputs accrue value through use
Using an obsolete scholarly communication system impedes innovation and hence return on investmentWhat are we doing about it?Trying to fix it using an obsolete scholarly communication system!
The challenge is to foster the co-constituted socio-technical system on the right i.e. a computationally-enabled sense-making network of humans and machines sharing social objects… not just papers but data, models, software, narratives – new digital artefacts we call research objects.
Big data elephant versus sense-making network?
data
methodscript
program
workflow
model
protocol
…
Nei
l Chu
e H
ong
http://www.myexperiment.org/
Research Objects
ComputationalResearch Objects
Evolving the myExperiment Social Machine
WorkflowsPacks O
AIO
RE
W3C PRO
V
Reusable. The key tenet of Research Objects is to support the sharing and reuse of data, methods and processes. Repurposeable. Reuse may also involve the reuse of constituent parts of the Research Object. Repeatable. There should be sufficient information in a Research Object to be able to repeat the study, perhaps years later. Reproducible. A third party can start with the same inputs and methods and see if a prior result can be confirmed.
Replayable. Studies might involve single investigations that happen in milliseconds or protracted processes that take years.Referenceable. If research objects are to augment or replace traditional publication methods, then they must be referenceable or citeable.Revealable. Third parties must be able to audit the steps performed in the research in order to be convinced of the validity of results.Respectful. Explicit representations of the provenance, lineage and flow of intellectual property.
The R dimensions
http://www.scilogs.com/eresearch/replacing-the-paper-the-twelve-rs-of-the-e-research-record/
www.researchobject.orgJun
Zha
o
Real life is and must be full of all kinds of social constraint – the very processes from which society arises. Computers can help if we use them to create abstract social machines onthe Web: processes in which the people dothe creative work and the machine does the administration… The stage is set for an evolutionary growth of new social engines.
Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web, 1999
The Order of Social Machines
Some Social Machines
ScholarlyMachinesEcosystem
1. Citation in tomorrow’s sense-making network of humans and machines:
– What are the artefacts / social objects?– How and why are they cited?
2. Think about an ecosystem of interacting Scholarly Social Machines
3. Science as a Social Machine?
Discussion points
Thanks to Christine Borgman, Iain Buchan, Neil Chue Hong, Jun Zhao, Carole Goble, FORCE11, myExperiment, Software Sustainability Institute, wf4ever and SOCIAM
[email protected]/people/dder
http://www.scilogs.com/eresearch
@dder
www.oerc.ox.ac.ukwww.force11.org
www.researchobject.orgwww.software.ac.uk
sociam.org