{"id":17409,"date":"2017-02-09T12:57:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T12:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=17409"},"modified":"2017-03-10T11:07:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T11:07:52","slug":"open-science-and-the-chemistry-lab-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ch.ic.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=17409","title":{"rendered":"Open science and the chemistry lab  of the future."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"17409\">\n<p>The title refers to an upcoming symposium on the topic on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beilstein-institut.de\/en\/symposia\/open-science\">22-24 May, 2017.<\/a> \u00a0I quote here some of the issues tabled for discussion:<\/p>\n<div class=\"column column-2 col-1\">\n<div class=\"text\">\n<ul>\n<li>Which data do we want to save, how and why and how long?<\/li>\n<li>What really needs to be reproducible?<\/li>\n<li>Are current reporting standards being used sufficiently?<\/li>\n<li>Are the current procedures for depositing data too onerous for scientists?<\/li>\n<li>Will technology, through increasing automation, fix most of the problems?<\/li>\n<li>Is bureaucracy killing creativity in science?<\/li>\n<li>Have we got a reproducibility crisis?<\/li>\n<li>If we save and share data routinely, what is the future of the publication?<\/li>\n<li>Are funding agencies causing science to be too short term in their quest for value for money?<\/li>\n<li>Are chemists repeating too many experiments?<\/li>\n<li>What can chemistry learn from other areas and what can they learn from chemistry?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beilstein-institut.de\/en\/symposia\/open-science\" target=\"_blank\">www.beilstein-institut.de\/en\/symposia\/open-science<\/a>. 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