Project Title: CoLab
Collaborator(s): Casey Stark (Berkeley Astrophysics Graduate Program)
Timeline: December 2009 to present
CoLab is an online set of tools designed to promote open and massively collaborative science. Essentially, a friend and I became fed up with the lack of good web tools for scientific collaboration and decided to see what we could cook up. Ultimately, we aim to support online discussion around any piece of scientific content, including data plots, experimental protocols, published papers, papers in progress, and code. We believe that relocating the daily discussions of science to the web will make it easier for researchers to maintain current collaborations as well as form new ones. Moreover, we believe that CoLab presents an interesting new form of publication. Whereas journals focus on sharing the highly polished results of science, CoLab encourages sharing the ongoing process. Doing so can provide researchers with a more complete and real-time picture of their field. In addition to helping scientists, online open science gives students and the public direct access to a live record of the scientific process, which could revolutionize science education and the public understanding of how science is actually done. We launched CoLab this summer at the Open Science Summit 2010 (talk and slides below), received plenty of feedback, and are currently working to improve the site (which is, appropriately, open source). As CoLab is a pretty ambitious project for two full-time students, we’re always looking for collaborators. Sign up and poke around on the site, check out our About page for more info, or if you’re just itching to help revolutionize how science is done, check out our github repo and start hacking!
OSS 2010 talk video: available for viewing on Fora.tv
OSS 2010 talk slides: available for viewing and/or download here
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