Applying Open Source to Open Science

Ray IdaszakDirector, Collaborative EnvironmentsRENCI, University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill

Open Source

It Works.Software

ValueContributors

Users

Can Open Source principles be applied to Open Science?

Yes.

Water Science

Test-drivenDevelopment

CodeVersioning

ContinuousIntegration

Water Science

Water Science

Water Science

Water Science

…needs Open Science.

Water Science

…needs Open Science.

Open Community Engagement Process (OCEP)

REFERENCEAhalt, S., Band, L., Minsker, B., Palmer, M., Tiemann, M., Idaszak, R., Lenhardt, C., Whitton, M. (2013). Water Science Software Institute: An Open Source Engagement Process. The 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering (SE-CSE13); San Francisco, California; May 18, 2013.

http://waters2i2.org/documents/2013/05/water-science-software-institute-an-open-source-engagement-approach.pdf

Thank You.

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Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the

National Science Foundation.

This work is funded by the National Science Foundation Award #1216817 “Conceptualization of a Water Science Software Institute

(WSSI)” and Award #’s 1148453 and 1148090 “HydroShare: An Interactive Software Infrastructure for Sustaining Collaborative

Community Innovation in the Hydrologic Sciences.”

Additional ResourcesMichael Tiemann on “Amplifying creativity and

business performance with open source”http://

opensource.com/business/10/2/amplifying-creativity-and-business-performance-open-source

Some of our more recent workhttp://figshare.com/articles/Developing_Scientific_Software_through_the_Open_Community_Engagement_Process_/

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Polymath Projecthttp://michaelnielsen.org/blog/introduction-to-the-polymath-

project-and-density-hales-jewett-and-moser-numbers/