Practicing Open Science William J Schroeder, Kitware, Inc. Brian - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Practicing Open Science William J Schroeder, Kitware, Inc. Brian Wylie, Sandia National Labs Marcus Hanwell, Kitware, Inc.

Speakers & Topics  William Schroeder, President & CEO, Kitware, Inc. - The whys and hows of Open Science  Dr. Marcus Hanwell, R&D Engineer, Kitware, Inc. - Building an open-source research program  Brian Wylie, Sandia National Labs - Research collaborations from a government perspective

The Scientific Method • Document • Share • Data • Methodology • Archive Galileo Galilei 1613

Open Science Ensuring reproducibility  Open Documents - Hypothesis - Descriptions REPRODUCIBILITY - Results Positive Evidence Negative Evidence  Open Data Accumulate Disproof Support Hypothesis  Open Methodology - Experimental apparatus If it isn’t reproducible, it isn’t - Software - Workflow science - Parameter Sets

Example: Insight Journal  Timely publishing of publications, data, and software  Evaluated automatically; further reviewed by community PDF doc Journal Git Repository Code Input Data Author Web Build Results Site Machines Data

Example: OSA Interactive Science Publishing (ISP)  Augmented PDF  Contains links to executable viewer  Downloads data and viewer as necessary to reproduce paper images (results)

Benefits of Open Science  Collaboration “…much of our intelligence and creativity results from interactions with tools and - Leveraging international communities artifacts and from collaborating with other and expertize individuals.” -- Shneiderman  Innovation - Facilitate technology mashups - Move science to application faster - More focus on technology; less on protection  Business Models - Growing the pie, creating new opportunities - Customization, software integration

Example: Collaboration  NIH National Center of Biomedical Computing NA-MIC  Developing the OS NA-MIC Kit; 3D Slicer application

Example: Innovation (Open Source for Medical Imaging) Creating VTK (Visualization Toolkit) Led to the creation of: - ITK - VolView - BioImageXD - Osirix - MedINRIA - VisTrails - NIH / NCI caBIG – XIP - VR-Renderer - IGSTK - ParaView - Etc….

Example: Business Models  Kitware: Building open source collaboration platforms - Engaging in collaborative R&D - Providing technology integration services - Creating custom solutions CMake CDash

The Open Technology Highway  Provide an open infrastructure - Support research, teaching, non-profit and commercial activities - Any (legal) activity can hang off of the highway - Spur innovation, create opportunities - Get from idea to product faster - Do not have to replicate technology - Too many toll gates (i.e., closed systems) slows everything down

Next Up  Marcus: Building a research program for chemistry  Brian: open science and research collaboration from a government perspective