Internal presentation (Liblab liflafje)

1. Open Science is what we want
But what is Open Science?
Liblab Liflafje
23 February, 2016
Hugo Besemer

2. “Open Science” is a policy agenda
 What did we talk about before we started talking about
Open Science?
 What are the different areas of Open Science?
 How do different policy initiatives address these areas?
So it is different things to different people

3. We used to talk about
Open Source
 1998: Netscape Navigator => Mozilla
 Many products on the market place (Mozilla, Linux,
Drupal, Joomla, )
 Special set of licenses
Lesson: value and businesses can be created in the public domain

4. We used to talk about
Open Access
 Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002)
 Initially emphasis on self publishing in specific areas
(high energy physics – ArXiv, cognitive science – Eprints)
 Own set of licenses (Creative Commons)
 More emphasis on publishers (author’s processing
charges) and policy makers
Lesson: scholarly publishing system is settled in its
ways

5. We used to talk about
Open Data
 Human Genome Project
 Open Government Partnership
 Expectations of creating businesses (Barack Obama)
 Scientific Data can be open data
Lesson: Science is not the only source of
information / knowledge

6. We used to talk about
eScience, Cyberinfrastructure,
Data Driven Science
 eScience: 2000 John Taylor (UK Office of Science and
Technology)
 Cyberinfrastructure : Al Gore (nineties): National
Information Infrastructure
 Jim Gray (2007) “The fourth Paradigm: data intensive
discovery”
Lesson: Wow!

7. We used to talk about
Peer review and reproducability
 Psychology
 Clinical trials
 and even physics
Well, I would like to talk about it

8. Areas of Open science
Area What is done for whom?
Who can access publications Gold / Green open access Learned members of society
Who can access data Open data, data repositories Scientists, “App developers”, “App
users” = Society
Society can understand science Different writing style, twitter,
blog, …
Society
Society does the research Citizen science Scientists, Society
Scientists work together Collaboration environments (e.g.
Open Science Framework)
Science
Science can be verified Open Peer review, retention of
research data
Science
Enabling environment Other rewards, other performance
metrics
Scientists
Fecher, Benedikt, and Sascha Friesike. "Open science: one term, five schools of thought." Opening science. Springer International
Publishing, 2014. 17-47.
Nancy Pontika; Petr Knoth; Matteo Cancellieri; Samuel Pearce (2015). "Fostering Open Science to Research using a Taxonomy and an
eLearning Portal".
Myself

9. Initiatives and areas
UK Royal Society
Area
Who can access publications
Who can access data
Society can understand science
Society does the research
Scientists work together
Science can be verified
Enabling environment

10. Initiatives and areas
NL Adviesraad voor Wetenschap, Technologie en Innovatie (AWTI)
Area
Who can access publications
Who can access data
Society can understand science
Society does the research
Scientists work together
Science can be verified
Enabling environment

11. Initiatives and areas
EU Open Science Policy Platform (initiative)
Area
Who can access publications
Who can access data
Society can understand science
Society does the research
Scientists work together
Science can be verified
Enabling environment
Open education

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