2. Great Debate today:
Is Open Science the way to go?
• “Open access to research data will allow broad usage of data
across disciplines.”
• “Open Science will also allow open verification of research
results.”
• “Open Science is the general move towards open access to
research results funded with public money."
• “… funding agencies are including Open Science as a
requirement in their grants...”
15:30 hours Room E1
7. Why bother ?
How to make the most out of your scientific software
Reality check:
„Publishing“ scientific software
on Repositories
like Github or Zenodo …
8. Why bother ?
How to make the most out of your scientific software
Reality check:
„Publishing“ scientific software
on Repositories
like Github or Zenodo …
Does not suffice to enusre
its long term use and maintenance
(unless you do it all by yourself)
9. Why bother ?
How to make the most out of your scientific software
Reality check:
„Publishing“ scientific software
on Repositories
like Github or Zenodo …
Does not suffice to enusre
its long term use and maintenance
(unless you do it all by yourself)
Community
Software
Projects !
10. Open Source Infrastructure
“Software infrastructure, like physical infrastructure,
requires maintenance.
But nobody is pushed to sustain it
as it is a public good…”
[Nadia Eghbal ]
11. Introducing OSGeo
• to support and promote the collaborative development of
open geospatial technologies and data
• independent legal entity to which community members can contribute
code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their
• contributions will be maintained for public benefit
• Non-profit non-governmental organization
• established in 2006
12. OSGeo: Seal of Approval for Community
Software Projects
OSGeo has defined a procedure to evaluate the quality of a software and
label to the quality ones (OSGeo project):
1. Define criteria
2. Verify all criteria are satisfied (incubation)
3. Assign the OSGeo project label (graduation)
OSGeo, your Open Source compass:
Criteria are not measured and weighting is never applied
13. 10 years of incubation (@ Jan 2017)
7 still incubatingaverage of
~2 years
for graduating
23 graduated projects
24. Open Geoscience activities
• OpenGeoscience Committee
Outreach activities with the EGU and AGU: Townhalls, Early
Career Scientists, [more to come]
• Open Monitoring Systems Working Group
Collaborative working group to share experience on open
monitoring systems for in-situ earth observations with the aim
of advancing beyond the state-of-the-art in various involved
scientific fields.