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Reinventing Discovery - Michael Nielsen [142]

By Root 426 0

Miller, Anthony, 177

Miller, Dave, 51

Million Penguins project, 53–54

misinformation, 201–2

models vs. explanations, 127–28

modularity, 33, 48, 49–57, 226

Moon Zoo, 141, 169

Mullenweg, Matt, 20

Muppet Wiki, 54

Myers, Paul, 167


NASA policy on data release, 201

National Center for Biotechnology Information, US, 4, 236

National Institutes of Health (NIH): GWAS data sharing required by, 191

Public Access Policy, 162, 164, 165, 190

National Library of Medicine, 236

National Science Foundation, US, 191

Nature open peer review site, 179–80

Nelson, Ted, 217

networked science: commitment required for, 192–93

as open science, 87, 182

resistance to, 175–76, 182

revolutionary impact of, 10, 206–7. See also data web; internet; online tools; open science

news sites, user-generated, 163

Newton, Isaac: gravitational theory, 3, 102, 126–27

resistance to publication, 174, 183, 189

Neylon, Cameron, 219

Nichol, Bob, 141

Nickel, Arno, 230

Norvig, Peter, 218

novel, collaborative, 53–55

Nowell, Rick, 138

nuclear proliferation, 171


Obama, Barack, 120

Occam’s razor, 126

Ocean Observatories Initiative, 105–6, 108

O’Donnell, Ryan, 38

OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), 191

Oldenburg, Henry, 188–89, 197

Olson, Mancur, 189–90, 219

online tools: amplifying collective intelligence, 3, 18–21, 24, 32, 82–87

architecture of attention and, 32–33, 39

bridging institutions enabled by, 6, 87

in citizen science, 149, 152, 154–55

discovery process and, 3

dynamic division of labor and, 36/blockquote>

extending collective long-term memory, 175

filtering contributions to, 199

incentivizing use of, 193

institutions generated and transformed by, 158–59, 169–70, 171

low regard of scientists for, 182

markets subsumed and extended by, 39, 224

motivation to create new tools, 196

nature of explanation and, 128

obstacles to use of, 6

onus for development of, 235–36

programming of, 204–5

promising-but-failed examples of, 176–81

restructuring expert attention, 24, 32

revolutionary impact of, 10

scaling up collaboration, 42

shared praxis and, 78

open access movement, 160, 162, 163, 165. See also secrecy

open access publishing, 6, 160–65

Open Architecture Network, 46–48

open data. See data sharing

Open Dinosaur Project, 150–51

Open Knowledge Foundation, 219

open science: collective action for, 188–90

compelling, 190–93

culture of science and, 87, 181–84, 186

failure of individual action for, 187–88

incentivizing, 193–97

limits to, 198–203

practical steps toward, 203–6

revolutions in, 175, 184, 188–89, 197, 206–7

skepticism about, 197. See also data sharing; networked science; online tools

open source approaches, 46–48, 87

modularity in, 48, 49–57

patterns of scaling in, 48

reuse in, 48, 57–60, 61, 183

signaling mechanisms in, 48–49, 64–66

small contributions in, 48, 64

open source architecture, 46–48

Open source software, 45–46

antisocial behavior related to, 77

competing definitions of, 225

credit for, among scientists, 196

designed serendipity and, 223

Foldit scripts as, 147

microcontributions to, 63, 227

modularity in, 226. See also computer code; Linux

O’Reilly, Tim, 224

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 191

ornithology, 150

Orzel, Chad, 168

Osborne, Tobias, 187

Ostrom, Elinor, 189–90, 219


Page, Scott, 217

Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, 102

papers, scientific: career success and, 6, 8, 9, 110, 174, 178, 181–82, 186, 194

citing other people’s data in, 195

collective projects leading to, 9, 181

comment sites for users of, 179–81

credit associated with, 193–94

Galaxy Zoo’s contributions to, 9, 140, 181

vs. new values of sharing, 204

open access to, 6, 160–65

in open source science, 87

pirated online copies of, 163

preprints and, 194–95, 196 (see also arXiv)

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