Open Science

Karl Aberer, EPFL

Open Science
Shi< of publishing as early as possible
to sharing knowledge as early as possible

Enabled through collabora2ve plaEorms

Uberiza2on of science?

Illustra2on:
European Commis

Open Science - Examples

GalaxyZoo
HiveBench

Arxiv

ResearchGate
Altmetric
Mendeley

Open Science Swiss situation

Swiss Data Science Center
Human Brain Project

OpenSense
MOOCs

P2 - Scale
P2 - DLCM
Swiss Experiment
EPFL research data
P2 - open access
Fron2ers
ScienceWise

Example: Swiss Experiment

Example: ScienceWise

Three Issues
1. Open access to data
2. Seman2c interoperability
3. Incen2ve structures

Three Issues Example Swiss

Experiment
1. Open access to data
Data from public organiza2ons (e.g. meteosuisse) could not be included

2. Seman2c interoperability
Shared ontology required for annota2on
Integra2on of heterogeneous, environmental data remains challenging

3. Incen2ve structures
Why should researchers contribute data? What is their ROI?
Who is nancially suppor2ng open data plaEorms?

Three Issues Example ScienceWise

1. Open access to data
Main obstacle: publishers do not make papers accessible
Data mining not legal under current IP protec2on

2. Seman2c interoperability
Shared, accurate ontology essen2al for achieving precision
To be developed by domain experts

3. Incen2ve structures
How to incen2vize researchers to annotate papers and
develop ontology?
Who is nancially suppor2ng open data plaEorms?

Three Issues Conclusion

1. Open access to data
Major problem commercial and other interests

2. Seman2c interoperability
Technical challenge largely underes2mated
Requires combina2on of technology and expert knoweldge

3. Incen2ve structures
Proper incen2ve structures for researchers are key for success
Business models no always clear