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

Open Documents - Hypothesis - Descriptions - Results

Open Data

Open Methodology - Experimental apparatus - Software - Workflow - Parameter Sets

Ensuring reproducibility

If it isn’t reproducible, it isn’t science

REPRODUCIBILITY

Positive Evidence

Accumulate Support

Negative Evidence

Disproof Hypothesis

Example: Insight Journal Timely publishing of publications, data, and software Evaluated automatically; further reviewed by community

Code

Input Data

Journal Git Repository

Web Site

Results Data

Author

Build Machines

PDF doc

Augmented PDF Contains links to executable viewer Downloads data and viewer as necessary to reproduce

paper images (results)

Example: OSA Interactive Science Publishing (ISP)

Benefits of Open Science

Collaboration - Leveraging international communities

and expertize

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

“…much of our intelligence and creativity results from interactions with tools and artifacts and from collaborating with other individuals.”

-- Shneiderman

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)

Led to the creation of: - ITK

- VolView

- BioImageXD

- Osirix

- MedINRIA

- VisTrails

- NIH / NCI caBIG – XIP

- VR-Renderer

- IGSTK

- ParaView

- Etc….

Creating VTK (Visualization Toolkit)

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