11-07, 16:05–16:45 (US/Eastern), Central Park West
This session explores the challenges and solutions for navigating the complex landscape of open source and open science. Attendees will gain insights into showcasing tools, recognizing contributors, guiding funders, and empowering the open source community through The Map of Open Source Science (MOSS) and the SOL database.
This session will address the overarching issue of navigating and making sense of the vast, fragmented, and highly interrelated artifacts and corresponding data points within open source and open science. We will focus on four key problems critical to understanding and enhancing these ecosystems:
How can we effectively showcase the tools being utilized in various domains or for specific purposes?
How can we enable academic institutions to highlight the tools developed within their walls and recognize the individuals building and maintaining these tools?
How can we assist funders in pinpointing strategic areas for investment, predicting the impact of their funding, and tracking the actual outcomes to refine their predictive models?
How can we empower the open source community to become more self-aware and elevate its collective efforts?
To explore these problems and potential solutions, we will leverage The Map of Open Source Science (MOSS). MOSS is the first interface utilizing SOL, a comprehensive graph database of the open source and open science ecosystems. MOSS and SOL are designed to provide an interactive, community-managed, composable, and complete view of the relationships among all artifacts and corresponding data points within these systems. These artifacts include open source research software projects, academic papers, organizations, datasets, funding pathways, patents, products, economic production, and the individuals driving these efforts.
This talk is designed for attendees with an interest in open source, open science, or data management. No specific background knowledge is required, although familiarity with these fields will enhance the experience. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of how MOSS and SOL can help them navigate and contribute to the open source and open science landscapes effectively.
And, of course, attendees will be invited to contribute to the open source projects MOSS and SOL.
No previous knowledge expected
Jonathan Starr is the program manager of the Open Source Science Initiative out of NumFOCUS. He contributes to several open source projects and start-ups developing technologies enabling open science practices through novel infrastructure and incentive design. He is also president of The Science Commons Initiative and The Science Coordination Infrastructure and Operating Systems Collaborative, both 501c3s at the intersections of open source, open science, open education, and public engagement.