Amye KenallOpen data for researchers - the obstacles and the opportunities #opendataspotlightThursday, 26 February 2015

Badges for Open Science

Publish all research, including data notes, across life sciences

Rapid, open science: 3 weeks to first decision, open peer review

GigaDB for free data and code/tools hosting (up to 1 terabyte)

Two full-time bioinformaticians and a data curator to help you make your research reproducible

Open data (CC0)

What have we learned?

#OpenData is good for individuals

Piwowar HA, Day RS, Fridsma DB (2007) PLoS ONE 2(3): e308. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000308

35% increase in

citations

#OpenData is good for communities

Huanming Yang, Support the Manchester Manifesto: a case study of the free sharing of human genome data, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08109028.2011.631275#abstract

Yet still not great take up …

30%

Are these working?

How can we reimagine how we value different research products?

“GPAs are worthless as a criteria for hiring and test scores are worthless… Your ability to perform

at Google is completely unrelated to how you performed when you were in school, because the skills you acquired in college are very different…”

Head of HR at Google, 2013

What does this have to do with research skills?

Digital Credenti

als

Mozilla Science

Lab

OA Publishers

ORCiD

Scientists

Open Badges

How can we reimagine how we value different research products?

Call to Action

https://github.com/mozillascience/

PaperBadger/issues/2

Read More

• http://mozillascience.org/contributorship-

badges-a-new-project/

• http://www.nature.com/news/publishing-

credit-where-credit-is-due-1.15033

• http://news.sciencemag.org/scientific-

community/2014/11/could-digital-badges-

clarify-roles-co-authors

Questions?

@Amye KenallDevelopment Manager (Open Data), BioMed Central

amye.kenall@biomedcentral.com