FORCE11 Scholarly Commons Working Group Webinar 20171208
FORCE11 Scholarly Commons Working Group Webinar 20171208 Welcome ! - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
FORCE11 Scholarly Commons Working Group Webinar 20171208 Welcome ! - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
FORCE11 Scholarly Commons Working Group Webinar 20171208 Welcome ! Practicalities WEBINAR NOTES (please add your questions/comments) https://tinyurl.com/FORCE11-SCWG-webinar Duration: 90 minutes Please mute when not speaking
Welcome !
- WEBINAR NOTES (please add your questions/comments)
https://tinyurl.com/FORCE11-SCWG-webinar
- Duration: 90 minutes
- Please mute when not speaking :-)
- This webinar will be recorded and shared afterwards
Practicalities
Welcome !
Goals of this webinar
WEBINAR NOTES https://tinyurl.com/FORCE11-SCWG-webinar
We are at a crossroads: we think we know what the Scholarly Commons is and are looking for ways to move forward We are asking you for:
- your opinion (and suggestions) on what is worth pursuing
- your interest to contribute in any of the proposed activities
Welcome !
Programme
WEBINAR NOTES https://tinyurl.com/FORCE11-SCWG-webinar
- The Scholarly Commons: what has been done and where we
are now
- SCWG subgroups: issues addressed, future plans
○ SG1 - Inclusivity ○ SG2 - Principles ○ SG3 - Decision trees ○ SG4 - Enabling technologies and infrastructures
- Live poll
- Where do we go from here?
Dan O’Donnell Chris Chapman Stephanie Hagstrom Ian Bruno
Welcome !
Programme
WEBINAR NOTES https://tinyurl.com/FORCE11-SCWG-webinar
- The Scholarly Commons: what has been done and where we
are now
- SCWG subgroups: issues addressed, future plans
○ SG1 - Inclusivity ○ SG2 - Principles ○ SG3 - Decision trees ○ SG4 - Enabling technologies and infrastructures
- Live poll
- Where do we go from here?
Bianca Kramer
Maryann Martone
Dan O’Donnell Chris Chapman Stephanie Hagstrom Ian Bruno
Jeroen Bosman Fiona Murphy Dan O’Donnell Chris Chapman Ian Bruno Bastian Greshake Nate Jacobs
Stephanie Hagstrom You!
Introduction
Maryann/Jeroen
- Keep your eyes on the stars and your
feet on the ground
FAIR Social networks Interoperable DCIP Data repositories Citable ORCID PIDs By Katherine Skinner Annotation Semantic Web Data journals Altmetrics Credit Taxonomy
- If so, what?
- Have we built it already?
- If not, do we know how?
and many more: http://tinyurl.com/scholcomm-charters
What are all these declarations saying?
- Madrid, February 2016
FAIR → Open → Citable → Versioned → Research objects Open is not the only aspiration...
Values driven
“Values should be reflected in our software”—Quote from FORCE2016 Our scholarly practices and reward system should lead to the best scholarship possible “Academic self-determination”-Priego et al, 2017
https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6C2XT
scholarlycommons.org @scholrlycommons www.force11.org/scholarly-commons/discussion-forum scholarlycommons-info@force11.org 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C2XT web: twitter: forum: email: preprint:
Subgroup 1 Subgroup 2 Subgroup 3+4
WG1: Inclusivity
Bastian Greshake and Dan O’Donnell
WG2: Principles
Jeroen Bosman, Dan O’Donnell and Bianca Kramer
→
- Giving direction to a
community
- Showing what people
could pledge
- Guiding development
- f policies & tech
WG3: Decision Trees
Fiona Murphy and Maryann Martone
FAIR → Open → Citable → Versioned → Research objects Resources in the commons should be:
https://www.force11.org/scholarly-commons/practice San Diego, Sept 2016
Matrix of the commons: Organizing and applying what we’ve learned
Decision tree: Making data open Decision tree: Making data open Repositories Data Open Denton Declaration Principles of open scholarly infrastructures Entity, object or action SC principle Community principles Decision tree
Library of high level decision trees that can be adapted for each community
- Built on open source software stack so they are available to the
community
- Recommendations are generic but can be adapted for more specific
uses
○ e.g., FAIR Data recommendation: Deposit your data in a specialist repository if one is available ○ SCI: Deposit your data in the Open Data Commons for Spinal Cord Injury
- Why should I participate?
- What can I do?
–e.g. supply domain knowledge, support Policy Models software, help with funding
- We need more capacity to allocate persistent identifiers, input metadata and provenance
information, attribute actions and works and automate versioning.
- What are the consequences of investing (not monetary but time and effort)?
- What are the consequences of NOT investing (money, time AND effort)?
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Scholarly Commons WG4
Enabling Technologies and Infrastructures
Big picture overview
1. Positioning & rationale 2. Current approaches & where we are 3. Where we want to go & how you can get involved 4. Questions & answers
Positioning & Rationale
Positioning of WG4 within the FORCE11 Scholarly Commons Working Group’s efforts
Technology is part of this.
The cultural and technical are one. We cannot look at one without seeing the
- ther.
Technologies and infrastructures are projections of culture.
In response to the Subversive Proposal:
“Right now, the research system works in an extremely complex manner where pecking
- rders, legitimacy, memory building through
proper archiving and bibliographic efforts and even communication :-) takes place. This is the given and we must start from there while, simultaneously conjuring up the right vision for the future. In short we must simultaneously have the right vision of the present and the right vision of the future to have a chance to chart the right course between now and the future. The word “right” occurs three times in this sentence and it points to the fundamental difficulty of the
- task. In fact it is daunting, but it should not
discourage us.” (Jean-Claude Guédon 1994)
CC-BY-SA JMortonPhoto.com & OtoGodfrey.com
Theoretical backbone (at least of group’s inception)
Thinking in Systems: A Primer Donella H. Meadows (Publisher, Amazon) Notes on the Synthesis of Form Christopher Alexander (Publisher, Amazon)
We need a new form to fit the context of contemporary society. This is a design problem.
Current Needs of Society
Scholarly Commons
A slide from Thomas Mboa’s 2017 OpenCon presentation
“The whole question, then, is how to move from a Westernization
- f science to a truly
shared science…”
(Bonaventure Mvé-Ondo)
Current approaches & where we are
Our goals & current approaches
Scholarly Commoning Laboratory Understanding the context Designing for fitness iterate
Understanding the context
“Christopher Alexander discusses the process by which a form is adapted to the context of human needs and demands that has called it into being. He shows that such an adaptive process will be successful only if it proceeds piecemeal instead of all at once.… When the designer, in our own self-conscious culture, is called on to create a form that is adapted to its context he is unsuccessful, because the preconceived categories out of which he builds his picture of the problem do not correspond to the inherent components of the problem, and therefore lead only to the arbitrariness, willfulness, and lack of understanding which plague the design of modern buildings and modern cities.” (source)
Understanding the context
We’re developing a list of scenarios about the types of interactions which might occur in a scholarly commons. A common theme to those scenarios is connections. We are developing a list of questions as well as ways to manage and preserve these questions and the process of finding answers. We are aggregating a pool of topics/projects, from which we will reach out and invite leaders
- f these topics or projects to weekly calls for
discussion.
Designing for fitness
Constant experimentation with approaches that may help to preserve the continuity of a broad-reaching, multi-faceted exploratory research process (cf. The Challenge). Example: We’ve run into the problem of having a lot of distributed raw information and need something to make it easier for new people to understand what our process is, where we are in that process, and how best to participate. A proposal was made that we try Knowen to see how well it could help with this task: http://knowen.org/nodes/23403
Where we want to go & how you can get involved
End goal
??? (this is still and will continue to be under discussion) Possibilities include:
- “Some kind of decentralised knowledge map that could connect all kinds
- f scholarly/knowledge commons, be they from academic, diy,
indigenous, non-western etc communities.”
- To build some sort of map using the raw data we will have collected;
something that could eventually be useful to humans and machines in helping with next steps of research. Something that could be very basic at first but with an ability to scale in complexity and diversity.
Ways to get involved
- Join the group!
- If you are working on something or just have a topic that you think would
be useful for us to explore, add it to the list of topics.
- If you have research questions that you think we should think about, add
them to the list of questions.
- If you have an idea for a future scenario that you would like us to think
about or that you have been wanting to express, add it to the list of scenarios.
- If you have ideas on how to help preserve the continuity of a
broad-reaching, multi-faceted exploratory research process, come and share your ideas with us.
Questions & answers
Poll
Jeroen
Poll on the scholarly commons
https://tinyurl.com/commonspollwebinar
Preliminary poll results from this webinar
Results from the same poll at Force2017 (note: questions in different order)
Where do we go from here?
Discussion points
- Is there more to be done?
○ The current steering group thinks so but believe focus should be through subgroups
- Broad goals - is it helpful to define some?
○ Understanding what the Scholarly Commons means in practice ○ Driving adoption of Scholarly Commons principles
- Sub-groups - what areas should we be focussing on?
○ Current: Inclusivity, Principles, Decision Trees, Enabling Technologies ○ Other groups? What interests you?
- Related activities - who should we be engaging with?
○ There are many...
Other Initiatives and Activities
https://101innovations.wordpress.com/ http://tinyurl.com/scholcomm-charters
scholarlycommons.org @scholrlycommons www.force11.org/scholarly-commons/discussion-forum scholarlycommons-info@force11.org 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C2XT web: twitter: forum: email: preprint: