Jenny MolloyDPhil Candidate, Department of Zoology, University of OxfordCoordinator, Open Science Working Group, Open Knowledge Foundation

jenny.molloy@okfn.org @okfnscienceOpen Science

Open Science: Liberating ideas,

facilitating research.

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education - 7 Nov 2014

Cameron Neylon under CC-BY-SA

Photo: Ed Yourdon under CC-BY-NC-SA. Slide by Cameron Neylon

“A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.”opendefinition.org

Science is based on building on, reusing and openly criticising the

published body of scientific knowledge.

For science to effectively function, and for society to reap the full

benefits from scientific endeavours, it is crucial that science data be made

open.

Open science is a research accelerator (Michael Woelfle, Piero Olliaro & Matthew H. Todd)Nature Chemistry, 3:45–748 (2011) doi:10.1038/nchem.1149

Images from http://opensourcemalaria.org/

PLUTo: Phyloinformatic Literature Unlocking Tools. Software for making published phyloinformatic data discoverable, open, and reusable

Slide from Ross Mounce under CC-BY 2.5 http://www.slideshare.net/rossmounce/the-pluto-project-ievobio-2014

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the Open Knowledge Open Science Working Group inc. Peter Murray-Rust and Ross Mounce

Cameron Neylon for his excellent open science presentation:

http://www.slideshare.net/CameronNeylon/network-enabled-research-the-role-of-open-source-and-open-thinking