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@ntnsndr Oh nice, that's an interesting question. I should ask first, what does *open research* mean to you?

@ntnsndr I really didn't mean that to sound as pedantic as it did. It's just that there are lots of angles on what open means in research.

I think the most impactful stuff has probably happened around open access to research outputs (publishing) and trying to come up with models for making it work like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLOS or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerJ where the costs are inverted (pay to publish, not to read), and trying to get institutions to support that.

@ntnsndr of course the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArXiv did so much to pioneer open access in establishing the concept of pre-print servers, where results could be shared in a more timely manner,. In many ways this simple idea prefigured much that was to come in the shape of blogging and social media, but with a scientific/academic angle.

@ntnsndr and also the role of Wikipedia in shaping how openness and research work on the web should not be diminished. They are the 5th most visited site on the web, make all their content and underlying data available using Creative Commons licenses, and are a non-profit, which is a truly remarkable feat really. Lots has been written about editing practices on Wikipedia, but my favorites on the topic are Stuart Geiger and Heather Ford (I can send some citations if you want them).

@ntnsndr and then there are web archiving practices, which is an area I'm specifically studying as a PhD student. The huge force here is the Internet Archive who have been working on nothing short of archiving the entire web. If this sounds like a crazy idea it kind of is, but it's more of an aspirational goal than what is actually happening. There are also organizations around the world that archive web content, a lot of which (but not all) is open. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Internet_Preservation_Consortium

@edsu thanks for all this! I'm mainly looking at means of making more of the research and writing process open and participatory. A few prelim examples: https://nathanschneider.info/wiki/commons/open_research

@ntnsndr ah I see better now, that's a super list!

I can see you are dipping into platforms for citizen science there which could potentially include crowd sourcing tools like https://www.zooniverse.org/ https://docs.pybossa.com/

Also, it has been interesting to see researchers start to use tools like Jupyter Notebooks (now JupyterLab) http://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ to publish their methods for obtaining results. For example Buzzfeed's https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews

@ntnsndr ... Mike Bostock & co's Observable is a new entry in this notebook space https://beta.observablehq.com/ and it will be interesting to see where it goes.

I guess that GitHub itself has had a profound effect on sharing code that is part of research. They've been promoting integration with Zenodo to try to make software more citable with DOIs https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/

I recently ran across data.world in some of Jonathan Alrbight's recent work https://medium.com/@d1gi/untrue-tube-monetizing-misery-and-disinformation-388c4786cc3d which could be of interest?

@ntnsndr since you have Hypothesis on there, one really nice thing about their service is that each annotation gets a URL for a page that displays the annotation in the context of an archived snapshot of the page. For example: https://hyp.is/FUwGsB8CEeiBnI_YgsqyLA/social.coop/@ntnsndr/99617263548985909

I think genius.com, which started out as a database of annotated rap lyrics, is now used for all kinds of stuff, but it's not open source.

@ntnsndr I'm gonna stop there before everyone on social.coop unfollows me :-)

@ntnsndr oh hell, one more, because I'm such a big fan.

The https://webrecorder.io project is building a service and a set of opensource tools that make it easy to archive even the most dynamic of content from the web.

You can downlod your archival collections & replay them with their webrecorderplayer (an electron app).

https://github.com/webrecorder/webrecorderplayer-electron/releases/tag/v1.0.9

For researchers that study the web being able to snapshot & organize it like this, sometimes privately, is essential.

@ntnsndr I guess that would be Jeremy?

@edsu yep:)

@ntnsndr you're most welcome! I have used Zenodo a bit in the past for a Twitter archiving utility called twarc, which has been used a bit by researchers who wanted to cite it.

Somewhat ironically when the project moved to an GitHub org account https://github.com/docnow/twarc I couldn't get Zenodo to respect the move. I should probably figure it out some time, eh?