Michael Nielson provides a quick, powerful treatise of the
coming open science revolution in, “Reinventing Discovery.” The
book is a great read, pouring through recent examples of citizen
science projects such as Galaxy Zoo and Fold.it and providing an
optimistically sober perspective toward open science with
partially open data and/or data delay for big scientific
projects. This shift will be reliant on the incentive systems we
have for scientists (current a “publish or perish” model),
requirement levied by the funding organizations, and the desires
of the sub communities. The last three chapters are a must read
for those interested in designing tools and systems to create a
reputation economy and break the academic race to write papers
valued by the published scientific community, and instead, bring
about an open data and open science approach for 21st century
scientists. “[T]ools can be used to amplify our collective
intelligence, in much the way that manual tools have been used
for millennia to amplify ou