Why the LSST will change astrophysics forever

My slides from #NAM2015 where I introduce the idea of Service Oriented Astronomy: An approach whereby researchers develop novel methods for common data analysis tasks that are shared as hosted services with their peers.

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1. Why the LSST will change astrophysics forever Arfon Smith @arfon Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
2. Why the LSST will change astrophysics forever Arfon Smith @arfon Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License might
3. Why the LSST will change astrophysics forever Arfon Smith @arfon Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License should
4. Why the LSST will change astrophysics forever Arfon Smith @arfon Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License will hopefully
5. Arfon Smith @arfon Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License Some ideas we should steal from Open Source
6. !
9. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/
13. BIG SCIENCE
14. New tools. New ways of working.
15. New tools. New ways of sharing.
16. Methods and tools become increasingly important
17. Complex (unpublished) things Numbers, data Science!
18. Reproducibility Data intensive
19. Open Source Software composed of many reusable components
20. Your software is the thing that is different
21. Open Source is modular
22. Lots of people looking to solve the same problem
23. Ubiquitous culture of reuse
24. Where do communities form?
25. Around a shared challenge?
26. Around shared data?
28. Supernovae Weak lensing Active Galactic Nuclei Solar System Galaxies Transients/variable stars Large-scale structure Stars, Milky Way Strong lensing Informatics and Statistics Dark Energy (DESC)
29. 10 ? n Level 1 (continual) Level 2 (periodic)
30. LSST is a project that is inherently open
31. Service Oriented Architecture > A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural pattern in computer software design in which application components provide services to other components via a communications protocol, typically over a network. The principles of service-orientation are independent of any vendor, product or technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture
32. Service Oriented Astronomy > Service oriented astronomy (SOA) is an approach whereby researchers develop novel methods for common data analysis tasks that are shared as hosted services with their peers.
34. Level 1 (continual) 10 n
35. Stars Rocks Level 1 (continual) 10 n
36. Stars Rocks SN WR NEOs Level 1 (continual) 10 n
37. Stars Rocks SN WR NEOs Josh Bloom’s Type Ia supernovae Level 1 (continual) 10 n
41. Your software is the thing that is different
42. Your software is the thing that is different science
43. How likely is something like this really?
44. “Academic environments of today do not reward tool builders” Ed Lazowska, OSTP event http://lazowska.cs.washington.edu/MS/MS.OSTP.pdf
45. Barriers are cultural, not technical
46. Academic landscape is changing
49. A VISION AND STRATEGY FOR SOFTWARE FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, AND EDUCATION
50. Open is the new normal
52. Open Data is the least we can do
53. Thanks. arfon@github.com @arfon "