SHARE: A Public Good to
Increase Scholarly Innovation
Jeffrey Spies
COS | SHARE | UVA
@jeffspies
Presented at UC CoUL, 2017/07/19
Mission
Increase openness, integrity,
and reproducibility of scholarly
research.
…in service of
increased research efficiency,
quality, inclusivity, and
diversity.
Mission
To maximize research impact by
making research widely
accessible, discoverable, and
reusable.
How
SHARE is building a free, open
dataset of research activity
across the research workflow.
How
…by
gathering, cleaning,
linking, and enhancing
scholarly metadata.
Providers
Gather
API
Consumers
Current stats
31.9M across 151 sources.
E.g., 16.8M articles, 2.0M
preprints, 1.3M datasets, 18.4k
software packages
Publish
Report
Write
Report
Search /
Discovery
Analyze
Data
Develop
Idea
Store
Data
Design
Study
Collect
Data
If we seek to facilitate
reproducibility, replicability,
extension, and reuse…
We need to move beyond
description of outcomes to
description of process or,
better, sharing actual process.
Publish
Report
Search /
Discovery
Write Report
Analyze
Data
Develop
Idea
Design
Study
Store Data
Collect Data
OSF organizes and
shares research
workflow.
SHARE describes it.
Public goods foster innovation.
http://share.osf.io
http://osf.io/preprints
Expanding the model
Preprint + Peer Review = Journal
Journals not as gatekeepers, but
as evaluators and amplifiers
Aside
I’m looking forward to working with
Brian and Ginny on Red OA.
Scaling Our Services
We can’t be active in every
community. That’s not scalable.
Scaling Our Services
But we can support members
within those communities--that
know them and speak their
language.
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Scaling between and within
communities
Service learning
Balances instruction with a
pragmatic, real-life opportunity
to serve in the community.
The Pedagogy
Learning how to learn via big,
meaningful, real-world projects
in a supportive environment that
fosters independence and
ownership.
Increasing our reach via focus
with a stakeholder model.
-orIf you build it, they will not
necessarily come.
http://tritonshare.ucsd.edu
UCSD came to COS with plans to
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Design a schema
Build a database
Run a database server
Create a web app
Run a web app server
Design a front-end
Collect and curate data from around campus
UCSD left COS with a plan to
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Design a schema
Build a database
Run a database server
Create a web app
Run a web app server
Design a front-end
Collect and curate data from around campus
A good deal for both groups
• We can’t build a UCSD dashboard without
UCSD data
• That data needed to be curated
• They are curation experts
• They know their community
• We received
– Feedback on dashboard design
– Insight into curation workflow
– A dedicated partner
It’s not just about metrics
These are stories we can tell
about our campuses. And it’s not
just about productivity. It’s about
diversity, growth, and change.
In my opinion
The use of institutional
identifiers is the most important
task that the metadata
community can take up.
Find this presentation at
https://osf.io/7pmve
20170602_mit_spies.pptx
SHARE: A Public Good to
Increase Scholarly Innovation
Jeffrey Spies
[email protected]
@jeffspies
http://cos.io