ESIP Innovator Interview: Kaitlin Thaney – Making research more like the web

Ist shared on opensource.com: http://opensource.com/life/14/6/can-we-make-research-more-web

Kaitlin Thaney is the Director of Mozilla’s Science Lab and an open science advocate. Her work in this space began with John Wilbanks building the science wing of Creative Commons (formerly known as “Science Commons”). Their focus was on crafting the infrastructure, policy and advocacy for Open Access and sharing data on the web. She moved to Digital Science, where the focus was on tools and science software, but there was still a gap. In her current role at Mozilla, she runs the Science Lab – an open science initiative of the Mozilla Foundation focused on innovation, best practice and skills training for research. The program serves as a hub for the research ecosystem, working to build communities of practice through educational programs like Software Carpentry, as well as show what open technologies can do to make research more like the web: open, collaborative and accessible.

In this episode we touch on:

• How the Science Lab builds off of the Mozilla Manifesto to enable anyone, regardless of their technical capabilities to do science using the web
• Software Carpentry training increases scientist productivity giving them a day a week back.
• Democratizing science information so that it isn’t just the top 10% of American universities doing ‘good research’.
• How to get involved in the Science Lab!

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Show Notes:

• Mozilla Science Lab | Forum.MozillaScience.org
• Mozilla Manifesto
• Software Carpentry
• ESIP Summer Meeting & Software Carpentry Bootcamp, Frisco, CO, July 8-11, 2014
• Trading Zone Wikipedia page
• ‘Thinking Globally’ – Kaitlin’s blog post on globalization of science