Publishing Better Science through Better Data 2015
Event Information
Description
--Tickets for this event are limited to one per person and are intended for students and early career researchers, affiliated to a research organisation. Please be aware this event will be held in London, all talks will be recorded and available to watch on the Scientific Data site after the event--
Research data should be an asset rather than a hindrance to getting published, receiving funding or progressing scientists’ careers. As policies on sharing and managing research data continue to emerge – from research funders, communities and journals – they need to be put into context for researchers preparing their next paper or grant application.
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CONFERENCE THEMES
- Research data for discovery. Research and funding perspectives on the benefits of, and available tools for, scientists to maximise the value of their research data for their own work and the research community.
- Research data for publications. Editors of leading journals from the Nature portfolio will give practical advice on how data access and management influences publishing decisions in high-impact journals, and will discuss data repositories, and novel publication outlets, such as data journals.
- Data sharing, integration and reuse in action. Lightning talks and demos from academic and industry researchers and technology providers will showcase tools for, and case studies of, research facilitated through broader data access.
- Opportunities from research data. Research leaders and technological innovators will discuss opportunities for training, careers, and the development of new ways of conducting and communicating research in a more data-intensive era.
- Priorities for research data. Panel discussion to explore where limited resources for funding, publishing, peer reviewing, analysing, archiving and training related to research data should be best used.
- Conference chair: Iain Hrynaszkiewicz - Head of Data and HSS Publishing, NPG/Macmillan
- Opening keynote: Prof Jeremy G Frey, University of Southampton: From e-Science to Open Science: collaboration around data
- Research data and funding perspective: Mr Matt Sydes, Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit, UCL: Access to clinical trial data: an academic perspective
- Dr Joerg Heber, Executive Editor, Nature Communications: It’s the data that makes the paper
- Dr Andrew Hufton, Managing Editor, Scientific Data: Beyond supplementary material: sharing data effectively through repositories and data journals
- Dr Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge: OpenTrials: building a linked database of all data and documents, on all trials
- Dr Stephen Eglen, University of Cambridge: Writing your scientific papers with reproducible research tools: a case study in Neuroscience
- Dr Gary Saunders, EMBL-EBI: Sharing, integrating and making the most of open-access genetic variation datasets
- Dr Sam Payne, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Interactive and Collaborative Analytics with Active Data Biology
- Dr Balint Antal, University of Cambridge: Mineotaur: an open source tool to share and re-analyze high-content microscopy screens
- Dr Ewan Birney, Director, EMBL-EBI: Opportunities from big data in biology
- Dr Timo Hannay, Founder, SchoolDash: Opportunities for innovation
Theme: Priorities for research data
Speakers:
- Dr Susanna Sansone, University of Oxford (Chair)
- Dr Fiona Reddington, Cancer Research UK
- Dr Varsha Khodiyar, Data Curation Editor, Scientific Data
- Dr Kenji Takeda, Microsoft Research
- Dr Stephen Eglen, University of Cambridge
Head of Data and HSS Publishing, NPG/Macmillan
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz is Head of Data and HSS Publishing at Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan, where his responsibilities include developing new areas of open research publishing and data policy, such as Scientific Data, Palgrave Communications, and open access monographs
Dr Andrew HuftonEditor, Scientific Data
Andrew is currently the Managing Editor of Scientific Data, where he develops the editorial content of the journal, and works to promote wider data sharing. Andrew received his PhD from Stanford University, and did postdoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute.
Dr Susanna SansoneAssociate Director and PI, University of Oxford e- Research Centre and Honorary Academic Editor, Scientific Data
Susanna is Associate Director at the University of Oxford e-Research Centre, and works at Nature Publishing Group as a data consultant and Honorary Academic Editor for Scientific Data. As Principal Investigator at the Centre, Susanna’s activities focus upon data curation, management and publication.
Dr Timo HannayManaging Director, Digital Science
Timo Hannay is Managing Director of Digital Science. Before that he worked at Nature Publishing Group, where he was director of nature.com. He has previously been a research neurophysiologist (in Oxford and Tokyo), a management consultant (McKinsey & Co.) and a journalist (The Economist and Nature).
Prof Jeremy FreyProfessor of Physical Chemistry, University of Southampton
Jeremy Frey obtained his DPhil on experimental and theoretical aspects of van der Waals complexes in the Physical Chemistry Labs, Oxford University, followed by a NATO/EPSRC fellowship at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and University of California.
Senior Scientist and Senior Medical Statistician, UCL
Matt chairs the CTU Protocol Review Committee and is part of the Standard Operating Procedure Committee. Externally, Matt is a member of the NCRI Prostate Cancer Clinical Studies Group (CSG) and sits on the Bone Subgroup of the NCRI Sarcoma CSG.
Executive Editor, Nature Communications
Joerg joined Nature Publishing Group in 2005 as an editor for Nature Materials, where he handled a broad range of physics and materials science manuscripts, before moving to Nature Communications in October 2012.
Director, EMBL - EBI
Dr Birney is Joint Associate Director of EMBL - EBI and runs a small research group. He is also Interim Head of the Centre for Therapeutic Target Validation. Together with Dr Rolf Apweiler, he has strategic responsibility and oversight for bioinformatics services at EMBL - EBI.
Dr Varsha KhodiyarData Curation Editor, Scientific Data
Dr Khodiyar is Data Curation Editor for the Nature Publishing Group journal Scientific Data. She specialises in the processing, creation and formatting of data associated with the journal's Data Descriptors. She is also responsible for the outreach to, and continued communication with, data repositories serving all subject areas covered by the journal.
Dr Kenji TakedaSolutions Architect and Technical Manager for Microsoft Research
Dr Takeda's current focus is helping researchers take best advantage of cloud computing.He has extensive experience in Cloud Computing, High Performance and High Productivity Computing, Data-intensive Science, Scientific Workflows, Scholarly Communication, Engineering and Educational Outreach.
Head of Population, Prevention & Behavioural Research Funding, Cancer Research UK
Dr Reddington has responsibility for the CRUK research portfolio in the areas of population research, prevention and early diagnosis. She also represents the charity on matters relating to data sharing and the management boards of a number of external initiatives
Dr Stephen Eglen
Reader in Computational Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
Stephen Eglen joined the Mathematics faculty at Cambridge in 2004 and studies the development of the nervous system. He has a long standing interest in open access to scientific materials, in particular scientific computer programs.
Organiser Springer Nature (Scientific Data and SciGraph)
Organiser of Publishing Better Science through Better Data 2015
The event is organised by the Scientific Data and SciGraph teams, within Springer Nature.
Scientific Data is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal for descriptions of research datasets. We aim to promote wider data sharing and reuse, and to credit those that share.
SciGraph is a Linked Open Data offering which aggregates data sources from Springer Nature and key partners from the scholarly domain. The Linked Open Data platform collates information from across the research landscape, for example funders, research projects, conferences, affiliations and publications.
Springer Nature is an academic publisher of high impact scientific information in print and online.
