[Open] Science Sunday – 19-5-13
2012 was a really interesting year for Open Research.
Tag Archives: open research
Oxford Open Science – monthly meetings
Monthly meetings held at Oxford e-Research Centre, 7 Keble Road,
19:00-20:30.
Next meeting: April, 24th 2013
Set the Default to “Open”: Reproducible Science in the Computer Age
While different types and degrees of reproducible research were discussed, many argued that the community needs to move to “open research,” which means research where widely used software tools are routinely used to (a) fully ‘audit’ the computationally procedure, (b) replicate and independently reproduce the results of the research, and (c) extend the results or apply the method to new problems.
Why openness benefits research
Transparency is essential for trust and credibility in the research community, and true openness brings great opportunities for academia. The internet facilitates the free flow of information and knowledge, and permits new forms of communication both for researchers and for the general public. Already, today’s children can listen freely on the internet to university courses taught by world-leading scientists, and everybody has the best encyclopaedia ever written (Wikipedia) at their fingertips. These are real game changers. Opening up the research literature is the next logical step.Blogpost by David Shotton and Heinrich Hartmann.