Day 1

Open Research Conference

Accelerating Discovery

Day 1 will explore the ethos and broad hurdles that surround Openness in research for the New Zealand and Australian social, institutional and legislative contexts. Day 1 will be live streamed here.

Thanks to the University of Auckland IT staff for making the live streaming possible.

Collaborative notetaking for Opening and Closing addresses

Open Research Methods and Process

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Methods and processes are incrementally adapting to new funder mandates and new opportunities presented by communities large and small attempting to reinvent their approaches, commonly embracing new technologies to achieve long held beliefs in the value of open reproducible research. What are the methods and processes that are relevant to Open Research? Who is leading the way, and what have they discovered?

Organisers: Nick Jones (New Zealand eScience Infrastructure - NeSI, University of Auckland, NZ) and Matt Todd (University of Sydney, Australia)

Keynote: Dr Mat Todd (University of Sydney, Australia)

Panelists

Dr Christopher Erdmann (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) John G. Wolbach Library)

Mark Hahnel (Founder, Figshare, Digital Science)

Dr Mat Todd

Suggested Topics:

    • Research workflows and project lifecycles
    • Data management from source to reuse
    • Funders mandates for open publication, of papers and data
    • Systems and tools to support open research: ORCID, PIDs (DOI), DataCite, e-lab notebooks
    • Exemplar communities: Open Drug Discovery, Open Wet Ware, humanities, medical science, Global Biodiversity (GBIF)

From Open Communities to Publication

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The focus will be on researcher communities contributing to shared data, research management, and publishing.

The international open data and research movement; including case studies, licensing, policies and stories from the coal face in biology, computer science, and mathematics . How can scholars, governments, and funders take advantage of these developments, and support them?

Organisers: Alex Holcombe (University of Sydney, Australia), Leonie Hayes (University of Auckland, NZ), and Alison Stringer (in a personal capacity)

Keynote: Professor David Penman (David Penman and Associates Ltd)

Building Collaborative Communities: Setting The Scene For Data And Information Sharing

Data sharing and open research communities require commitments to culture change at individual, institutional and government levels.

This paper will explore the issues that need to be considered in developing open communities, building on experiences with collaborations at international and national levels with a particular focus on the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, the Census of Marine Life (including the Ocean Biogeographic Information System) and the New Zealand Organisms Register.

Panelists

Dr Mark Wilson (Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland)

Dr Daniel Hook (CEO, Symplectic)

Dr Fabiana Kubke (Department of Anatomy with Radiology, University of Auckland)

Professor David Penman

Suggested Topics:

    • Engaging the community and the stakeholders
    • Unconventional journals, overlay journals, unbundling the journal
    • Research Data Repositories
      • Research Data Infrastructure: DataCite, ANDS, EUDATLegal and ethical issues
    • The publishing and community experience in mathematics and computer science
    • Copyright
    • Panton Principles for open data in science
    • Data as primary artifact
    • Archiving and curation
    • Open code for open science

IP and Business models of ‘open products’.

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This session will explore the legal and policy context in which New Zealand and Australian research institutions and researchers are bound to operate, the economic and business case for Open Research, and look at businesses that harness and benefit from an “open” model.

Organisers: Fabiana Kubke (University of Auckland), Rochelle Fourneaux (IP lawyer), Don Christie (CatalystIT)

Keynote: Don Christie (CatalystIT)

Panelists:

  • Lance Wiggs
  • Rochelle Fourneaux
  • Alison Stringer
  • Don Christie

Suggested Topics:

    • Copyright
    • IP
    • ACTA, TPP, PIPA et al
    • NZGOAL / AUSGOAL
    • What can we learn from the Open Source community
    • The “carrot” of openness that drives innovation in business