Open Science Radio

As in the last 2 years, Konrad visited the WikiCite event again and took the opportunity to do a couple of interviews with participants. "WikiCite 2018 is a 3-day conference, summit, and hack day dedicated to the vision of creating an open repository of bibliographic data to support the citation and fact-checking needs of Wikimedia projects, and possibly, to serve as an open infrastructure for res...

As in the last 2 years, Konrad visited the WikiCite event again and took the opportunity to do a couple of interviews with participants. "WikiCite 2018 is a 3-day conference, summit, and hack day dedicated to the vision of creating an open repository of bibliographic data to support the citation and fact-checking needs of Wikimedia projects, and possibly, to serve as an open infrastructure for res...

Den meisten Menschen die sich, vor allem Deutschland, mit dem Themenkomplex Open Science beschäftigen, dürfte Lambert Heller in den letzten Jahren mehrfach über den Weg gelaufen sein. Mit seinem institutionellem Anker in der Technischen Informationsbibliothek (TIB) ist Lambert ein extrem umtriebiges und aktives Mitglied der Bibliotheksszene wie auch der Open Science Community. Von daher war es sch...

Nach den letzten Episoden mit jeweiligen Themenfokus gibt es diese Mal wieder einer eher "klassische" Episode. Wobei, etwas Besonderes ist es doch, denn zum einen bin ich zu Gast bei Konrad in Köln (und wir sitzen uns gegenüber), zum anderen nehmen wir genau das zum Anlaß ein wenig mehr Einblick in Konrad's neue Wirkungsstätte, das ZB MED Informationszentrum für Lebenswissenschaften, zu nehmen. Da...

This is somewhat of an experiment, as this episode is not at all coming from us but was produced by Lindsay Petley-Ragan. Lindsay has been a science communicator for quite some time now and has worked for a number of science (-related) organizations. Over the last winter semester she hosted a science communication workshop for graduate students at Humboldt University in Berlin and one of the assig...

2017 wurde auf Initiative der Allianz der deutschen Wissenschaftsorganisationen das Projekt Nationaler Open-Access-Kontaktpunkt OA2020-DE gestartet, um die Voraussetzungen für die großflächige Open-Access-Transformation in Übereinstimmung mit der Allianz der deutschen Wissenschaftsorganisationen zu schaffen. Nach dem ersten Projektjahr haben wir das Vergnügen mit Alexandra Jobmann einen Blick auf...

Im Rahmen unserer kleinen Reihe zum Fellow-Programm Freies Wissen - dem Gemeinschaftsprojekt von Wikimedia Deutschland, Stifterverband, VolkswagenStiftung (und weiteren Unterstützern) - widmen wir uns in einer vierten Episode einer etwas anderen Perspektive, nämlich der von ehemaligen Fellows. Als Gesprächspartner begrüßen wir in dieser Episode die Alumni Marion Goller und Nicolas Schmelling.  Vie...

In the last episode we talked about The Carpentries, the joint initiative comprising the Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry. In this episode we've invited Chris Erdmann to talk to us about the third well-known Carpentry out there (not being part of The Carpentries yet): Library Carpentry. Together with Chris, who is the current Library Carpentry Community and Development Director, we dive into...

In the beginning of 2018 the community initiatives Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry merged to form The Carpentries - a broad joint community of instructors, trainers, maintainers and supporters in general sharing a mission to teach foundational computational and data science skills to researchers. In the end of May / beginning of June, the first ever CarpentryCon was taking place and was a gr...

In this episode we had the great opportunity to talk to Jon Tennant, a fairly well-known Open Science advocate with many hats and even more projects. We talked to him about what drove him to Open Science, how it came about that he wore some of these hats and about his most recent (and community-driven) project, the Open Science MOOC. Jon has a thing with dinosaurs - be it the extinct species or le...

Zur Abwechslung haben wir uns mal wieder zu einer "klassischen" News-Episode zusammengefunden und diskutieren ein paar grundlegende Nachrichten (News kann man meist schon nicht mehr wirklich sagen). Es geht, wie so oft in letzter Zeit, um Verhandlungen mit und die Rolle von klassischen Verlagshäusern, das (politische) Bekenntnis zu Open Access und Open Science sowie um allerlei infrastrukturbezoge...

Over the last couple of years, a number of people at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich have relentlessly (in a good way) been pushing open science efforts. Be it in the form of incorporating open science badges, signing open initiatives, or the foundation of an Open Science Committee at LMU, there has been a lot of activity in a very desireable direction. These activities have finally led...

If you've been listening to us for a while you have probably already heard about Felix Schönbrodt, as we have mentioned him in a number of episodes talking about projects he was involved in and a number of talks, e.g. his lighting talk at the 2016 Barcamp Science 2.0 or his recent talk at the Open Science Conference 2018. Felix is a principal investigator for Psychological Methods and Assessment a...

As you have recognized, Open Science Radio was again attending the Barcamp Open Science as well as the Open Science Conference. This episode is a wrap-up of the 2018 run of those two (related) events, again 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...

Im Rahmen unserer kleinen Reihe zum Fellow-Programm Freies Wissen - dem Gemeinschaftsprojekt von Wikimedia Deutschland, Stifterverband, VolkswagenStiftung (und weiteren Unterstützern) - widmen wir uns in einer dritten Episode weiterhin der Innenansicht des Programms. Dazu haben wir uns wieder einen Fellow und eine Mentorin eingeladen, um von ihren Projekten, aber auch ihren Erfahrungen zu berichte...

OpenAIRE supports the European Commission's Open Data Pilot. At the Open Science Conference poster session, Ellen Leenarts from OpenAIRE-Advance gave us a bit more insight in their survey about how the data management plan requirements in H2020 (PDF) are perceived by researchers and research supporters.

As the amounts of research data are ever-growing and data value becomes even more important with respect to data sharing and reuse, the organization and management of data is an incredible important task. The Research Data Management Organiser (RDMO) is a tool developed to solve this task, enabling researchers to plan and manage their research data across the entire research data life cycle. Joche...

At the poster session of this year's Open Science Conference, Rok Roskar was presenting his poster on the data science platform RENGA. Developed by the Swiss Data Science Center, RENGA is an open-source, highly scalable platform fostering cooperation in data science. Ros was so kind to provide us with more info about the platform.

At the Open Science Conference's poster session, Martyn Rittman (Editor at MDPI Open Access Publishers and director of preprints.org) presented a poster about his research on preprint servers. He was so kind to share his insights with us in a short interview.

Isabell Steinhardt hosted a session on the limits of transparency and the related problems. We asked her about her motivation as well as her impressions and learnings from the session.

Ingo Keck (Moringa Publishing) hosted two sessions at the Barcamp, basically looking at the two sides of doing Open Science - what are the "pain points" of doing research openly, and what is the "fun" about it? He was kind enough to share his impressions and learnings from both sessions with us.

Software is increasingly been recognized as valuable research output but there's still a perceived lack of consistent processes for software citation. Sophia Dörner hosted a session on exactly this question to collect some community feedback. Here are her impressions and learnings from the session.

Doing research with people from outside academia

Gabriela Mejias and Christian Pietsch moderated a session on ORCID (the Open Researcher and Contributor ID) and how to use the BASE search engine to get scientists' publications into ORCID.

Lambert Heller (TIB) and Wolfgang Böttner (De Gruyter, OA journals for Societies) moderated a session on moving from traditional platforms to peer-to-peer networks as a basis for academic publishing. After the session they were so kind to share with us their impressions and main discussion points from the session.