Open Notebook Science for Research and Teaching

Program Description

In this session, Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley (Associate Professor of Chemistry, Drexel University) and Dr. Andrew Lang (Professor of Mathematics, Oral Roberts University) will discuss their ground-breaking work in Open Notebook Science (ONS), a practice that leverages Web 2.0 technologies to make the full record of scientific research publicly available as it happens. Dr. Bradley describes it thusly: “ONS involves the real-time sharing of all experiments and associated raw data by a community of collaborators who are geographically distributed and may have never communicated using channels other than these shared projects.”

In this context, ONS is a product of both the Open Access and Open Science movements which advocate for free availability of scholarly work and transparency in the scientific process, respectively. The advantages of ONS for research and publishing, collaboration, and teaching will be explored, as well as the challenges. Dr. Bradley will present these topics drawing from his research on anti-malarial agents and non-aqueous solubility measurements. Dr. Lang will discuss automatic curation, visualization, dissemination, and archiving of the data. They will also describe their use of web services (e.g., wikis, blogs, Google spreadsheets and APIs, Youtube, Flickr, Chemspider) to support ONS activities, including data crowdsourcing, as well as student training. These concepts and methods are extensible to any field of scientific study.

Registration

Please register by sending an e-mail to participate@nitle.org.

Network participant fee (early registration by February 5): $48
Network participant fee (after February 5): $50
Out-of-Network participant fee: $65

Questions

For more information about this event, including its agenda and what to expect from participation, please contact Sean Connin at sconnin@nitle.org.