FAIR in FOSS and            

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  • Member of Technical Staff @ LambdaTest
  • Final-Year Undergrad, JIIT Noida
  • GSoC '23 @ OpenAstronomy/SunPy
  • Volunteer @ OSDC, FOSS United
  • (Occasional ;_;) OSS Contributor
  • Interested in Python, Scientific Software, Data and the Cloud

an outline

  • Open-Science
  • FOSS and Science
  • Getting involved

two researchers

  • Peter unable to reproduce results due to paywalled journals or inaccessible tools.

  • Tony uses open datasets, FOSS libraries, and collaborative infra to publish reproducible research globally.

COVID 19

“We have seen the problems caused by the lack of data sharing on COVID-19,” said Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, WHO Chief Scientist. “When data related to research activities are shared ethically, equitably and efficiently, there are major gains for science and public health.”

Open-Science

  • the movement to make scientific research and its results accessible to all levels of society.
  • transparency, reproducibility, collaboration.
  • not just open access publishing

Open-Scie☂️ce

Open Data

Open Peer Review

Open Access

Open Resources

Citizen Science

DEI

Open Software

Open Results

Open Hardware

FAIRness in Data

  • Findability
  • Accessibility
  • Interoperability
  • Reproducibility

Research at large!

Open Sci Infra

rethinking research outputs

  • Rep is really important in research
  • Traditional science = results oriented

More than just results

  • Datasets

  • Methods or Protocols

  • Educational resources

  • Software tools

  • Code

More than just openness

  • Openness ≠ Rigor

  • Need high-quality, trustworthy research

Where FOSS comes in

  • Accessibility

  • Transparency

  • Encourages community contributions

an example: sunpy

sunpy's impact

  • Used in numerous scientific publications
  • Supports various solar missions and ground-based observatories
  • Enables efficient data analysis and visualization for researchers worldwide

Acquiring Solar Data

Adding Sources

  • Just need to subclass existing BaseClients, map API's

very extensible!

🗣️ Another One

JupyterCAD

FOSS

Science

Scientific challenges inspire better FOSS

FOSS enables better science

Scientific Python

Python 🤝  Scientific Communities!

  • Accessible
  • Flexible
  • Open-Source
  • Actively Developed
  • Strong Community Support

Many Reasons Why

Some blindspots

  • Open Source tools with no docs

  • Datasets without metadata

  • Institutions Open-Sourcing; never accepting PRs

Challenges to Open-Science

  • Project sustainability

  • Lack of incentives

  • Scientific rigor in fast-evolving projects

The AI age

  • Model reproducibility crisis

  • Policy demands for transparency

  • "Open-Source AI"

Getting Involved

(as a researcher)

  • Publish with reproducibility tools

  • Use open datasets/APIs

  • Join communities

Getting Involved

(as a developer)

  • Contribute to FOSS projects in science

  • University programs for students

  • Opportunities like GSoC, Outreachy, ESA/NumFOCUS projects

Relevant links

  • https://book.the-turing-way.org/
  • https://reproducibilitea.org/
  • https://numfocus.org/open-source-science-initiative-ossci
  • https://pyopensci.org/
  • https://nasa.github.io/Transform-to-Open-Science/

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