Unlike a few other topics discussed this week, Science 2.0 is a fairly well developed concept. It generally refers to the more open data sharing made possible by social media technologies. \u00a0The term is often associated with the open data movement. \u00a0Social networking sites have allowed scientists to share research data allowing other scientists to very quickly replicate the experiment and compare their results to the original data and verify the original results. \u00a0Social media, has in general allowed greater collaboration and sharing between scientists and researchers around the world.<\/p>\n
And yet that isn’t the full story here. The 2.0 is also not entirely helpful because collaboration and data sharing\/verification has always been important in scientific research. What was 1.0? \u00a0If we know the stories of data sharing (albeit much slower) through letters and visits from Aristotle to Darwin to today. \u00a0If collaboration and data sharing have always existed among researchers, how is 2.0 any different than what came before it?<\/p>\n
The answer is it isn’t very different. There are 2 main differences. \u00a0Science 2.o does allow for faster collaboration, but really that isn’t much difference. Secondly, since social media broadcasts to a large audience (as opposed to a letter addressed to one scientists) it does creates greater transparency within the scientific community.<\/p>\n
Yet even with a well defined concept such as Science 2.0, the 2.0 suffix is not helpful. \u00a0It is more a hinderance because it is not descriptive enough. science 2.0 is not different enough from what came before it. \u00a0 Terms such as “open data movement” or other terms describing sharing and collaboration would be far more helpful than adding a suffix which needs to be explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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