Open Science Radio

As last year, Konrad visited the WikiCite 2017 event that seeks out "...to design a central bibliographic repository, as well as tools and strategies to improve information quality and verifiability in Wikimedia projects." This year he took the opportunity to do a couple of interviews with participants. This interview is with Carly Strasser. Carly is a marine scientist by education and and an open...

As last year, Konrad visited the WikiCite 2017 event that seeks out "...to design a central bibliographic repository, as well as tools and strategies to improve information quality and verifiability in Wikimedia projects." This year he took the opportunity to do a couple of interviews with participants. This interview is with Daniel Mietchen. Daniel is a biophysicist and open scientist currently w...

As last year, Konrad visited the WikiCite 2017 event that seeks out "...to design a central bibliographic repository, as well as tools and strategies to improve information quality and verifiability in Wikimedia projects." This year he took the opportunity to do a couple of interviews with participants. This interview is with Jonathan Dugan. Jonathan is a bioinformatician by education, has until r...

Viele andere Dinge fordern gerade unsere Aufmerksamkeit, von daher haben wir etwas gebraucht um mal wieder eine Episode aufzuzeichnen. Das bringt auch uns hin und wieder zum Nachdenken warum man das hier macht und wie man es am besten machen könnte. Vielleicht könnt Ihr als Hörer ja ein paar Punkte davon verstehen, oder zumindest nachvollziehen. Abseits von Metathemen gibt es noch ein/zwei Newsmel...

As you have recognized, Open Science Radio was attending this year's Barcamp Open Science as well as the Open Science Conference. This episode is a wrap-up together with Guido Scherp, one of the organizers (you'll know him by now). Guido is providing his impressions from the two events, we share ours and discuss a few things in general, as well as a few of the talks in more detail (this year we ca...

DFG-funded research usually is provided with a (nationwide) negotiated license called Allianz-Lizenz which contains special Open-Access regulations that allows the OA publication of research results after a certain embargo period. However, experience shows that the authors (or their instiutional representatives) hardly ever make use of these Open Access rights, often due the related required effor...

As reproducibility becomes more and more important, one of the main challenges is to support it by making it easier and more accessible. Starting in the domain of geosciences, the DFG-funded project Opening Reproducible Research aims to improve the access to research results that are published over the Internet, and seeks to simplify their reuse in the form of a research compendium. At this poster...

One of the important issues in an institutional setting nowadays is, to guarantee reproducibility and quality control during the research process and across the entire data lifecycle. The DFG-funded project CONQUAIRE – Continuous Quality Control for Research Data to Ensure Reproducibility focuses exactly on these tasks. At this poster session Vidya Ayer from the Semantic Computing Group at Bielefe...

Tony Ross-Hellauer is the OpenAIRE2020 Scientific Manager at Göttingen State and University Library (University of Göttingen). In its mission to further Open Science, OpenAIRE has investigated those models of peer review that are counted as “Open Peer Review” (OPR). A first step was to collect, categorize, analyze and evaluate the manifold definitions of the concept of Open Peer Review. At this po...

Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Bosman are probably well-known in the Open Science scene, especially from their work on the Innovations in Scholarly Communications project. During the barcamp they presented their 1-week summer school course on Open Science and Open Scholarship and were involved in the Open Science MOOC idea initiated by Jon Tennant.

OpenUp is a Horizon 2020 funded project that seeks "to come up with a cohesive framework for the review-disseminate-assess phases of the research life cycle that is fit to support and promote Open Science." Michela Vignoli was so nice to give us a bit of background of the project and a few of her impressions from the barcamp session on Altmetrics (a topic which is one of the main topics of OpenUp)...

As last year, Konrad couldn't resist to offer a session himself. So this year he moderated one on the issue of overlay journals, a "rising" practice to make use of articles in repositories and implement a comparatively "small" technical layer on top of it to offer editor, peer review and journal layout services. Konrad provides a bit of background and insights from his session.

The Free Software Foundation Europe recently published a "position paper for the endorsement of Free Software and Open Standards in Horizon 2020 and all publicly-funded research". At the barcamp a couple of people from the FSFE held a session on this topic. We talked to Olga Gkotsopoulou and asked her to give us a little feedback on her session.

Johannes Köpcke is a wikipedian mainly focusing on lemmas relating to Chemistry. He is also a Chemistry student. At the barcamp he held a session on LibGen (Library Genesis), the software that collects knowledge in forms of books or articles. It is also the software behind Sci-Hub. He gave us a little background on LibGen and his session.

Stephan Janosch is Research Software Engineer in Biosciences working for the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics. He's also the spokesman for the German working group of Research Software Engineers (RSEs). At the barcamp he held a session on how to implement fair and software sustainability practices in your institute. He gave us a little background on this task, his work a...

Lindsay Petley-Ragan is a cell biologist at heart and currently working for the fantastic STATE Festival. She held a session on how to foster open science through informal education. We asked her to give us a little insight.

Dominik Scholl works for Wikimedia e. V. and held a session on how to bring Open Science education to interested people. We asked him elaborate a bit on his idea and the session's feedback.

Christian Pietsch runs the website Open Science Q&A at the University Bielefeld and held a session on the documentation of Open Science. He gave us a little insight in his project and his session.

Lusy from the Free Software Foundation Europe held a session on why only 2 women did propose a session here at the barcamp (vs. 10 men or so). We asked her to give us a little background and her impressions.

Astrid Orth from SUB Göttingen held a session on Open Metrics. We asked her to give us a little background and her impressions.

We talked to Peter Kraker who just moderated a session at #oscibar about how Open Knowledge Maps, a project to visually discover research. Here's what his impressions were.

We met Asura Enkhbayar who just moderated a session at #oscibar about how to teach Open Science practices for Undergraduate students and young researchers. Here's what his impressions were.

Open Science Radio is happy to attend this year's Barcamp Open Science as well as the Open Science Conference. As in 2016 we've been kindly ask to participate and help documenting the events with our recordings. In order to provide you with a bit of background about this two events and this year's focus, we've invited one of the organizers, Guido Scherp, to give us a rundown what we can expect. Es...

Wir eröffnen das Jahr ganz klassisch mit einem Blick auf die News der letzten Wochen. Die Neuigkeiten werden leider von einer Reihe wenig positiver Entwicklungen überschattet, aber hey, so ist das nun einmal. Man muss durch die Nacht wandern, wenn man die Morgenröte sehen will (5 EUR für's Phrasenschwein). Wir haben ein wenig Verzug im Beginn der Aufzeichnung gehabt, sodass wir nach hinten raus ei...

Wir hatten uns ein paar Tage vor Weihnachten noch einmal zusammengefunden um einen Blick auf die letzten Meldungen des Jahres zu werfen, ein bißchen Dank zu verteilen und damit so etwas wie eine "Abschlußfolge" für das Jahr 2016 aufzunehmen. Haben wir auch gemacht, aber leider hat die Gesundheit der Veröffentlichung einen Strich durch die Rechnung gemacht. Wir hoffen also Ihr hattet ein paar geruh...