Scott C. Edmunds is Editor-in-Chief at the Hong Kong-based Open Science publisher GigaScience Press, publishing reproducible and open software and data papers via its GigaScience and GigaByte journals.  He is also on the Advisory Boards of the Dryad Digital Repository and Make Data Count. With a research background in cancer genetics and 20 years experience in Open Access publishing, he has more recently taught data management and curation at Hong Kong University. Having an active interest in Citizen Science, he has co-founded Citizen Science organisations Bauhinia Genome and CitizenScience.Asia.