About me
Bruce is a long-time advocate for open science. He is an active online-community architect, and is looking to help open-science organizations build community governance and achieve their promise. He recently published the Open Scientist Handbook . He is a co-founder of the EarthArXiv preprint service, hosted by the California Digital Library.
Bruce is the founder of the New Media Studio and the New Media Research Institute in Santa Barbara. Bruce is trained as a social anthropologist and an urban cultural geographer. He is skilled in a variety of programming languages, statistical packages, and video, audio, and multimedia authoring tools. He completed the first multimedia dissertation at UC Santa Barbara.
Bruce served as the first program office manager at Earth Cube, as a president of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners, as the chair of the DLESE Data Access Working Group, and as an elected member of the National Science Digital Library Policy Committee.
Bruce has led his team to explore a variety of open science potentials. With funding, they partnered with a commercial data-handling software company (RSI) to insert IDL programming capabilities directly into classroom-ready, interactive learning environments (Earth Data Multimedia Instrument). They prototyped an open, online science poster commons (Postercommons). They explored connecting scientists through dedicated social networking (Digital Ocean). They built collaboration environments for online open science teamwork (Skolr). They encouraged NASA to use open, community-led, content management systems to streamline the production of data-rich websites (NASA Science on Drupal). And they explored the design features that could be shared among future open science scholarly commons (with Sloan support).
Bruce’s current goal is to help grow university and public libraries as central hubs for open science content and learning. He wants to help train leaders at universities to become open science culture change agents in order to capture the unreasonable effectiveness of open science collaboration.
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