Talk – Open source hardware for more equitable open science
Since 2023, I've given several variations of my talk about open source hardware as a key component of open science. Here, I will share extra notes on what didn't fit in the talk, a transcript, further reading/resources, and a recording of the talk.
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- Recording
- Transcript
- Further reading/resources
Recording
I've given several variations of this talk with multiple recordings. For now, here is the recording of an early iteration I gave at the Edinburgh Open Research Conference in mid-2023 (click on the “Presentation Video” link on the page):
https://doi.org/10.2218/eor.2023.8112
I will try to put other recordings here on a best effort basis.
Transcript
I will put a transcript of the talk here as soon as I can.
Further reading/resources
- The official Open Source Hardware Definition: https://www.oshwa.org/definition/
- OreSat open source cubesats: https://www.oresat.org/
- Public Lab is the group which developed the open source balloon mapping platform in response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill: https://publiclab.org/
- Story about capturing photographic evidence of dumping toxic waste in the Mississippi River: https://publiclab.org/notes/eustatic/05-28-2013/kite-photos-of-ongoing-coal-pollution-in-plaquemines-parish-la
- Claudia Martinez Mansell is a humanitarian worker and independent researcher who worked at the Bourj Al Shamali refugee camp in Lebanon. It's the community there that remixed the Public Lab balloon mapping platform for use in their camp. Relevant reading:
Peer-reviewed papers
- Arancio, J. (2023). From inequalities to epistemic innovation: Insights from open science hardware projects in Latin America. Environmental Science & Policy, 150, 103576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.103576
- Burke, N., Müller, G., Saggiomo, V., Hassett, A. R., Mutterer, J., Ó Súilleabháin, P., Zakharov, D., Healy, D., Reynaud, E. G., & Pickering, M. (2024). EnderScope: A low-cost 3D printer-based scanning microscope for microplastic detection. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 382(2274), 20230214. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0214
- Collins, J. T., Knapper, J., Stirling, J., Mduda, J., Mkindi, C., Mayagaya, V., Mwakajinga, G. A., Nyakyi, P. T., Sanga, V. L., Carbery, D., White, L., Dale, S., Lim, Z. J., Baumberg, J. J., Cicuta, P., McDermott, S., Vodenicharski, B., & Bowman, R. (2020). Robotic microscopy for everyone: The OpenFlexure microscope. Biomedical Optics Express, 11(5), 2447–2460. https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.385729
- Grant, S. D., Cairns, G. S., Wistuba, J., & Patton, B. R. (2019). Adapting the 3D-printed Openflexure microscope enables computational super-resolution imaging (No. 8:2003). F1000Research. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.21294.1
- Hsing, P.-Y., Johns, B., & Matthes, A. (2024). Ecology and conservation researchers should adopt open source technologies. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2024.1364181
- Pearce, J. M. (2020). Economic savings for scientific free and open source technology: A review. HardwareX, 8, e00139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2020.e00139
- Thaler, A., Sturdivant, K., Neches, R., & Levenson, J. (2024). The OpenCTD: A low-cost, open-source CTD for collecting baseline oceanographic data in coastal waters. Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2024.60
Useful guides
- UNESCO Open Science Toolkit guide on “Supporting open hardware for open science”: https://doi.org/10.54677/LUMO4515
- Report – Creating an Open-source Hardware Ecosystem for Research and Sustainable Development: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8301858
- Report – Supporting Open Science Hardware in Academia: Policy Recommendations for Science Funders and University Managers: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8030028
- Open Know-How is a specification for including detailed metadata with your open source hardware project so that its designs are more machine readable, interoperable, and reproducible: https://www.internetofproduction.org/openknowhow
- DIN SPEC 3105 is a specification for good practices in publishing and peer reviewing open source hardware designs: https://www.beuth.de/en/technical-rule/din-spec-3105-1/324805763
Relevant organisations
- Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH): https://openhardware.science/
- Open Source Hardware Association: https://www.oshwa.org/
- Open Science Hardware Foundation: https://opensciencehardware.org/
- Internet of Production Alliance: https://www.internetofproduction.org/
- Open Hardware Makers provide mentoring and training on how to develop and support open source hardware: https://openhardware.space/
- IO Rodeo sells open source hardware for scientific research, including the OpenFlexure microscope: https://www.iorodeo.com/
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