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REARCHITECTINGSCIENCEA VISION FORSTM IN THE 21ST
CENTURYADAM BLY 28 MAY 2009 BALTIMORE
“At such a difficult moment, there are those whosay we cannot afford to invest in science, thatsupport for research is somehow a luxury atmoments defined by necessities. I fundamentallydisagree. Science is more essential for ourprosperity, our security, our health, ourenvironment, and our quality of life than it has everbeen before.”
President Barack Obama, April 27
We are inspired by the potential ofscience to improve the state of the world
and we make media and technology tohelp realize that potential.
KNOWLEDGEIS GOOD
MASSIVECHANGE
Listen then Lead:What do
scientists think?Seed State of Science Report
Science is not aclosed system
65%Cite literature as having an influence on their science
Globalcollaboration is
fundamental
62%Are actively involved in at least one international collaboration
Peerreviewstill matters
77%Agree that peerreview remains essential to scientific progress
Scientists care
70%Believe science can be used to advance the cause of peace in the world
80%Feel obliged as scientists to address the biggest challenges facing humanity
61%Feel obliged as scientists to speak with journalists about their work
74%Feel obliged as scientists to inform policymakers about science
83%Feel obliged as scientists to be environmentally conscious
The borndigitalhave come of age
15 Petabytes31 Billion2 Years
“The entire archive of sciencepublishing should be openaccess and
online. But this will be the outcome ofa slow political and value realignment inscience… Researchers should get in thehabit of posting data on their websites.”
Bosco Ho, PostDoc in Bioinformatics, USA
84%Believe that scientific papers should be freely available to other scientists and the public
“It is difficult to find information onfunding, people, meetings, etc… every
organization has their own webresources, and there are no centralized
sources of information, or they areincomplete.”
Emilio Perez, PostDoc in Chemistry, Spain
“I have colleagues in Australia, England,U.S., Kenya, and China, and without
collaborative web tools we could neverwork on anything together, since phone
calls are still too expensive.”David Braun, PostDoc in Archaeology, South Africa
“As a grad student, we had a websiterelated to our research. We posted somegeneral info about our research. But the
coolest thing we did was stream realtime data (eg. pH, temperature) from a
remote observing system onto the site.”Brett Branco, PostDoc in Environmental Science, Australia
“Blogs are a great way to open yournotebook to the world or just the
lab. They’re rich, accessible fromanywhere, and automatically backed up.
From a social perspective, they’re theroot of your identity on the web: theplace where you communicate your
thoughts and receive communication24/7 from anyone in the world.”
William Gunn, PhD Student in Cell Biology, USA
34%Use blogs to promote their research, discuss publications, or serve as lab notebooks
“The Research Web is about integratinglots of stuff that wasn’t designed to be
integrated with anything. It’s aboutgetting precise answers to complicated
questions instead of a mess of Webpages. It’s about making the user
experience for research on the Webmore like, well, the Web for other stuff.”
John Wilbanks, Science Commons
We have beenhere before
PersonalCumulativeSystematic
ActivistEssential
WE NEED TOREBOOT (STM)FOR THE 21ST
CENTURY
WE NEED> a digital core(not just digitaltools)
WE NEED> commonstandards thatconnect crowdsourced innovation
WE NEED> free flowof information(today it isdesigned to limit)
WE NEED> to advanceinterdisciplinaryscience, restructuresocieties
WE NEED> to connectdeveloped todeveloping world
WE NEED> to extractknowledge frominformation, foster anew language
William Playfair (1801)
James Watson, Francis Crick (1953)
Ben Fry (2008)
Future Pie Chart?
WE NEED> to bring scientiststogether, andtogether withresources
WE NEED> to lead the socialchange towarduniversal scienceliteracy
WE NEED> to collaborate asto meet thesegoals, they’re not“our”readers
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