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
A brainstorming session to collect pointers to ongoing discourse topics, or to raise issues that are considered important but under developed. If Open Science is meant to be addressing imablances or problems in science knowledge systems, what are these issues. What risks come with the new systems and what actors are at play in their design.
11:35 Coffee - 20 minutes
11:55 Open Science Researchers - 1 hour 5 minutes
We are taking 'a needs based approach’ to the researcher, to look at how Open Science can be used in their practice, and how we can improve their use of facilities, ways of working and infrastructures around them, and have them invoved in system design. The aim is that we find ‘replicable models’ that the wider research community can use
13:00 Lunch - 1 hour
14:00 Platform Outline - 1 hour
This is a chance to look at what we have inplace 'so far' as editorial concepts, but also to look at the wider media landscape of blogs and resources in Open Science.
15:00 Coffee - 15 minutes
15:15 Review - 45 minutes
Look at possible collaborations and spend time on issues we think are important.
16:00 End
Participants
- Andrea Hacker - Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe, University of Heidelberg, https://uni-heidelberg.academia.edu/AndreaHacker
- Janneke Adema - Research Fellow Digital Media | Centre for Postdigital Cultures | School of Media and Performing Arts | Faculty of Arts and Humanities | Coventry University, https://openreflections.wordpress.com/
- Jon Tennant - Palaeontologist. Open Science Communication. Open Science MOOC, http://fossilsandshit.com/blog/
- Luca Mollenhauer - Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung, Informationsstelle OER https://open-educational-resources.de/
- Sarah Behrens - Wissenschaft & Kultur Wikimedia Deutschland
- Sascha Friesike - Associate Researcher, Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. Opening Science, editor https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-00026-8
- Ulrike Wuttke - Middle Dutch | Prophecy and Eschatology | Textual Scholarship | DH | Research Data | Infrastructures | PARTHENOS | HaS | FH Potsdam https://ulrikewuttke.wordpress.com/
Participants: Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) and Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW)
- André Vatter
- Guido Sherp
- Ina Blümel
- Lambert Heller
- Philip Schrenk
- Simon Worthington
- Stefan Schmeja