Wednesday May 21, 3:30pm — 102 Johnson Hall
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Video archive at https://ischool.adobeconnect.com/p7b23x0wix4/
What Academia Can Learn From Open Source
Arfon Smith
Scientist, GitHub & Co-Founder, Zooniverse
ABSTRACT
Practices vary between scientific domains but all too often the
sharing of research software is done on an ad hoc basis between
individuals and with little thought about the wider community. With
code and computation encapsulating an ever-increasing fraction of
research activity, now more than ever we need to develop a culture of
sharing and reuse similar to that found in open source communities.
BIO
Arfon Smith is lapsed academic with a passion for new models of open
scientific collaboration. He gained his PhD in astrochemistry from the
University of Nottingham in 2006 and then went on to work as a senior
software developer at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute - the site
responsible for sequencing more than a third of the original human
genome. In 2008 he moved to the University of Oxford and co-founded
the Zooniverse (zooniverse.org) - a web based collaboration that has
engaged millions of people in online citizen science. In October 2013
he joined GitHub Inc. to work on supporting researchers who are using
the GitHub platform for capturing the process of scientific discovery.