This symposium addresses the interfaces between the laboratory and the new infrastructures currently being set up. In chemistry, biochemistry and neighbouring areas, funding agencies and national and supranational bodies are mandating the sharing and depositing of data.
Making Science FAIR
Beilstein Open Science Symposium 2018
8 – 10 October 2018
Hotel Jagdschloss Niederwald, Rüdesheim, Germany
This symposium brought together research scientists, data scientists, publishers, funders and other interested parties to review critically current publication practices in chemistry and related sciences.
Scientific Program:
Martin G. Hicks and Carsten Kettner / Beilstein-Institut
Aspects covered by this conference
The digitization of chemistry is picking up speed as new technologies are diffusing into the lab allowing devices to be interconnected, data automatically recorded, and experiments to be automated. The impact of open science on science research will be critically reviewed and the development of highly interconnected, collaborative research in data driven laboratories of the future will be discussed.
Making Science FAir
A new science eco-system is in the making: Open Science. It will impact the way research is carried out and reported, in particular focussing on improving the way research data is stored and shared. Open Science aims to make research and development more effective by improving the communication of scientific knowledge through free access to research results, by encouraging researchers to share their data, and ensuring that data are complete, comprehensive and transparent.
The lack of a framework for structured and standardized data reporting and the largely outdated infrastructure for reporting and publishing scientific research results means that the ability to validate, verify and reuse data is insufficient to allow data-driven research and development. A good way forward is to adopt the FAIR principles that aim to make aim to make data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.
However, achieving these goals requires not only investment in hardware and personnel (data scientists) but also cultural changes for researchers to be more open to sharing results – perhaps prior to publishing as a journal article.
This symposium addresses the interfaces between the laboratory and the new infrastructures currently being set up. In chemistry, biochemistry and neighbouring areas, funding agencies and national and supranational bodies are mandating the sharing and depositing of data. The digitization of chemistry is picking up speed as new technologies are diffusing into the lab allowing devices to be interconnected, data automatically recorded, and experiments to be automated. The impact of open science on science research will be critically reviewed and the development of highly interconnected, collaborative research in data driven laboratories of the future will be discussed.
Scientific Program
Monday, 8th
Opening
Martin Hicks, Beilstein-Institut, Frankfurt
Open, FAIR and GO FAIR
Erik Schultes, GO FAIR International Support and Coordination Office, Leiden, The Netherlands
Brokering Trust - How Open Science Will Change Academie to the Better
Kim Daasbjerg, Aarhus University, Denmark
Coffee Break
FAIR in the Community: How Can We Implement the Principles at the Disciplinary Level?
Simon Coles, University of Southampton, UK
Changing the Research Culture to Increase Openness
Timothy Errington, Center for Open Science, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Lunch
"I Like Not Fair Terms and a Villain's Mind" - Incentives for Openness in Biomedical Research
Matthew H. Todd, Imperial College London, UK
Opening Science in a Data-driven World - Challenges and Opportunities
Rok Roškar, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Coffee Break
Making Research Outputs FAIR: A Funder Perspective
David Carr, Wellcome Trust, London, UK
Delivering Transparency in Research Data from the US EPA National Center for Computational Toxicology via Web-based Dashboards
Antony J. Williams, US EPA, Research Triangel Park, NC, USA
Oral Poster Presentation
Poster Session
Tuesday, 9th
Open Science at the Royal Society
Stuart Taylor, The Royal Society, London, UK
Bringing Intelligence into Chemistry
Dobrila Rudnicki, NIH-NCATS, Bethesda, MA, USA
Coffee Break
An Open Standard for Automation and Programming of Organic Synthesis
Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow, UK
dokieli: A Researcher-centric Decentralised Application for Publishing, Annotations, and Social Interactions
Sarven Capadisli, TIB, Hannover, Germany
ChemScanner(-DB): an Initiative to Collect Chemistry Data by a Community Effort
Nicole Jung, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
Lunch
The SGC (Structural Genomics Consortium) Open Access Network
Stefan Knapp, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Data Management in Chemistry
Dørte Solle, Leipniz University Hannover, Germany
Panel Discussion
Coffee Break
On the Road to Reproducible Research: Data Stewardship in Practice
Marta Teperek, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Who Will Own the Operating System of Science? - Or: How Adopting Open Data and Open Source Practices Has Become a Core Challenge of Research Infrastracture Development
Lambert Heller, TIB Hannover, Germany
Wednesday, 10th
Open Science Publishing in Africa
Elizabeth Marincola, The African Academy of Sciences, Nairobi, Kenya
eLife - Learning How Improvements in Publishing can Support Open Science
Mark Patterson, eLife, Cambridge, UK
Coffee Break
Open Data Sharing at PLOS: Four Years of Experience and Next Steps
Leonie Mueck, PLOS, Cambridge, UK
UCL Open: A New University Press Megajournal Publishing Model
Ian Caswell, University College London, UK
Open Access and Beyond: SciPost
Jean-Sébastien Caux, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Closing Remarks
Martin G. Hicks
Lunch
Photo Gallery
