Fostering Friendships - Enhancing Social Bonds in the Classroom
From Where Have We Come & Where Are We Going
1. From Where Have We Come
& Where Are We Going?
Philip E. Bourne, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Data Science
philip.bourne@nih.gov
2. A Big Thank You to the Organizers…
It was not just a conference…
You have taken us to a new place in our
collective thinking…
You achieved what too few conferences
achieve - you inspired all of us
4. Some Drivers
• The “new societies” defined by interests not classical domains
• Government & community mandates
• Open data
• Identifiers
• Data & software citation
• Internationalization
• Bibliometrics
• The emergence of the Commons
• Emergence of frameworks/platforms
• Competitions / Challenges
• Public engagement in science
5. Mission Statement
• Originally
• Who: clearly identified stakeholders
associated with emerging technologies,
policies, funding mechanisms and
business models
• How: Change in communication through
IT
• What: Semantically enhanced media-rich
digital publishing
• Now?
• Stakeholders include many
domain scientists who believe in
the FORCE – To include those who
apply the principles rather than
those who develop the principles?
• Is the mandate broader?
• Clear communication?
• Impact measured through actual
humanitarian change?
6. In short the community doing the
serving could be changing and those
being served could be changing….
This presents both challenges and
opportunities
7. Challenges & Opportunities
• Challenges
• Remains a biomedical focus
• Consumed by the private sector
• Pulling the major scholarly
communication levers aka
publishers, funders
• Opportunities
• A biomedical focus? Other
communities could be engaged
• Public-private partnerships
• Funders and some publishers want
to help
9. Don’t wait until the opportunities come to you…
Make your own opportunities…
Every stakeholder has a role to play in the research
funding ecosystem
10. Consider the Funder Food Chain
Food = Money & Directives
Funding Institutions
Funding Decision Makers
Funding Implementers
You & Your Collaborators
Applies to federal funders, foundations, philanthropy worldwide
11. Identify & Pursue the Touch Points
Food = Money & Directives
Funding Institutions
Funding Decision Makers
Funding Implementers
You & Your Collaborators
Precision medicine
Cancer Moonshot
Strategic Computing
EOSC
Reproducibility
Data management
Cost effectiveness
Sustainability
Support for
communities
13. Specific Touchpoint - Preprints
• It will gain significant traction in the life sciences – the community
wants it
• The funders will collectively get behind it
• In its broadest form this is an opportunity to reinvent scholarly
communication from the ground up
14. Other Touch Points …
• Research identifiers leading to reproducibility
• Data citation
• Machine readable data sharing plans
• Open data management & sustainability
•Your thoughts here …