New Horizons for Open Science Researchers
Duration: a one day workshop
Location: Open Science Lab, The German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), Hannover
Date and time: January 18th 2018, 10am to 4pm
A new Open Science platform by the Leibniz Research Alliance – Science 2.0
A new online platform is to be launched in March 2018 as a meeting place for the European Open Science community. As digital transformation in scholarship progresses we will look at supporting the Open Science needs of researchers, in the pursuit of their research practice, and in furthering the discourse on Open Science. The platform will be driven by a blog, with other associated channels for literature and media, social media and for experimentation.
The Open Science platform looks to support the work of Open Science researchers. To understand how to do this we are taking ‘a needs based approach’ to researchers. The idea is to find out how researchers use ‘research resources’ — institutions, infrastructures, facilities, organisational groupings, systems, etc. — identify problems or challenges that the researchers are encountering and then look to put forward solutions to these issues.
Supporting in-depth examination of the ongoing Open Science discourse is vital to researchers being involved in shaping the future of scholarly institutions and ways of working. If the future shaping of science is being determined by Open Science, then the idea and systems being implemented need examination and scrutiny if they are to bring about the positive improvements that are possible — correcting imbalances, enhancing knowledge use, or enabling the practice of science outside of academe as Citizen Science. Current topical debates that are in play are issues like: the European Open Science Cloud and the criticism of the omission for need for decentralization; or the need to address the choice terms such as — Open Science, Digital Humanities, etc. — used to describe the effects of 'the digital' on scholarship, when these terms have consequences of creating confusion, or barriers between disciplines.
The workshop focus will be to look at researchers Open Science needs and to contribute to mapping Open Science discourse.
The aim of the workshop is to help inform the development of the Open Science platform, for example: to formulate ideas for community building, for ways to enable researchers in their Open Science practice, and to look at format options for editorial and scholarly communication of the platform.
About the Leibniz Research Alliance – Science 2.0 http://www.leibniz-science20.de/ueber-uns/
The alliance is an interdisciplinary group of thirty-seven partner organisations http://www.leibniz-science20.de/ueber-uns/verbundpartner/
About the Open Science Lab, TIB https://www.tib.eu/en/research-development/open-science/
Agenda
10:00 Start, housekeeping and introductions - 20 minutes
10:20 Discourse - 1 hour 15 minutes
11:35 Coffee - 20 minutes
11:55 Open Science Researchers - 1 hour 5 minutes
12:00 Lunch - 1 hour
+ 00 / 15 mins
14:00 Platform Outline - 1 hour / 1 hour 15 minutes
15:00 Coffee - 15 minutes
+ 00 / 10
15:15 Review - 35 / 45 minutes
16:00 End
Participants
External
- Andrea Hacker
- Janneke Adema
- Jon Tennant
- Ulrike Wuttke
- Sarah Behrens
- Luca Mollenhauer
Internal
- André Vatter
- Dr. Stefan Schmeja
- Ina Blümel
- Philip Schrenk
- Guido sherp
- Lambert Heller
- Simon Worthington