Christina K. Pikas is a science and engineering librarian in a special library as well as a doctoral student in information studies.
Anil Dash (first employee at SixApart (movabletype), long time blogger).
Milestone – there’s a blog on the White House website. Made statement that federal gov’t interest and use of new media – most interesting startup 2009. So then he set out to make it true.
Gov’t picks experts, brings them in, listens to them for a bit in a closed door session, and then they go home. How can this be done more transparently using online tools. Expert Labs – part of AAAS.
ends up being really
Gov’t bureaucracy has huge impact on science and technology innovation and use. Needs to be some translation.
We’ve spent a lot of effort on opening up science, put information online, and make it available – then what happens? What is the goal we’re trying to enable? Implications of open publishing and how that changes society? Will what gets done with open access/open science be a matter of hoping for the best or can we help shape what happens?
Across the spectrum – things about getting data out there – Sunlight Foundation, Data.gov, PLoS, National Lab Day.
Get the data to us, we’ll do the analysis – don’t just give us the ground beef (to paraphrase Dorothea, which he didn’t)
He believes that within 2-3 years gov’t sponsored data will be open access. (i’ll take a bet on that, unfortunately).
q from science sofa – how to find experts, how do you judge expertise
a: don’t provide credentials, looking at the web at successful communities that also support diversity. what if we let in the rabble – if we have a community that works well, it will help organize and compile a lot of responses to a few prevailing opinions. Also, a lot of the questions actually have answers – we just need help connecting to them.
q: why not limit experts to editors of sci journals
me: WHAT??? a: well not all the questions are about science, we have an obligation of being inclusive.
