Nowerdays the battle of open versus closed is replaced with more complex debates, which are, unfortunately, a bit boring for many researchers. What does that mean for the spread of the science 2.0, the open and the citizen science movement?
The Bad News About the Good News: Openness has won
1. The Bad News About the
Good News: Openness has
won
Christian Heise, Centre for Digital Cultures / Open Knowledge Foundation DE e.V.
Barcamp Science 2.0, Hamburg, 24.03.15
ZBW – Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
8. Challenges:
- CC-BY vs CC-BY-NC/ND; Gold vs Green Open Access
Policy vs other Policies; Self-hosted vs Third party
services …
- never lose sight of our objective
Possible Approaches:
- open up the debate
- discuss regularly on issues about openness
- open access commissioner in scientific institutions
- open access policies at universities
10. Challenges:
- „openwashing“, assimilation, imprisonment and
enclosure of research (e.g. #BlockReadcube)
- legal loopholes / „hybrid OA“ (e.g. offering authors CC-
BY-NC for a fee, while giving themselves commercial use
license)
Possible Approaches:
- constant public fight against „openwashing“ and legal
loopholes
- let us start the critique of openness
- start a recognized clearing institution (labeling)
- always refer to criteria of the open definition
12. Challenges:
- „open“ and collaborative scientific work is still not
convenient
- reducing the manual effort
- solve right issues and misunderstandings / urban
legends
Possible Approaches:
- awards / hackdays / whatever dissemination
- build more and better tools and showcases
- enable your colleagues
13. 4. No way (yet) in gaining (high)
reputation via open scientific work
14. Challenges:
- development and acceptance of alternative metrics
- open reputation without loss of idea diversity
Possible Approaches:
- publish good stuff via open channels
- convince your colleagues to publish openly
- conquer the consequences of openness
16. Academics (we) have to decide now on:
A. to improve steady-state(just good news)
or
B. focus on a new scientific revolution? (good & bad news)
17. Sources/References:
A bevy of Japanese GameBoy carts (CC-BY-SA 2.0) by Bryan Ochalla
Taiko no Tatsujin DS manual page(s) (CC-BY-SA 2.0) by Bryan Ochalla
Our Collection (CC-BY-ND2.0) by wisekris
Guy with WII (CC-BY-ND 2.0) by Herman Yung
Ottawa Comiccon 2014: Game Boy (CC-BY-SA 2.0) by Pikawil
Gameboy Advance A-f-T-e-R-b-U-r-N-e-R (CC-BY 2.0) by Joey Mink
Nintendo Gameboy (CC-BY 2.0) by William Warby
Complete-in-box GameBoy (CC-BY-SA 2.0) by Bryan Ochalla
Further Links:
Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e.V.: http://www.okfn.de
Open Knowledge Definition: http://www.opendefinition.org
DE Open Science AG: http://okfn.de/open-science/
Ross Mounce - Show me the data!: http://rossmounce.co.uk/
Pawel Szczesny on „Science 2.0 - and now what?“: http://www.slideshare.net/freesci
Martin Weller on „Openness has won – now what?“: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk(...)openness-has-won-now-what/
Contact:
Twitter: @christianheise
Mail: christian.heise@okfn.de