lgatto/2017_09_25_openscience_epfl

Slides for my talk at Open Science in Practice 2017, EPFL

Open Science in Practice 2017

• where: EPFL Campus
• when: 25-29 September 2017
• www: https://osip2017.epfl.ch/

I will also be giving a shorter version of this talk at the EPFL library in the evening.

An early career researcher's view on modern and open scholarship

Abstract

If research is the by-product of researchers getting promoted (a quote by David Barron, Professor of Computer Science, Prof. Leslie Carr, personal communication), then shouldn't we, early career researchers (ECRs), focus on promotion and being docile academic citizens rather than aiming for the more noble cause of pursuing research to understand the world that surrounds us, and disseminate our findings using modern channels? Indeed, I have already argued that a critical point that is failing us, is the academic promotion of open research and open researcher, as a way to promote a more rigorous and sound research process and tackle the reproducibility crisis. In this talk, I will present the case for open scholarship from an early carrier researcher's perspective, pointing out that being an open researcher is not only the right thing to do, but is also the best thing to do.

Material

• My slides are available http://bit.ly/20170925OSEPFL
• The blog post is available https://lgatto.github.io/EPFL-open-science/

About the meeting

Open science is an umbrella term. It describes a multitude of initiatives trying to harvest the potential of digital technologies to change how knowledge is produced, disseminated and reused. These solutions are often work in progress and challenge a status quo where the publication process leads to static, often behind pay wall, text documents that do not represent the complexity of the research process.

In an attempt to restore best practice in the production and dissemination of knowledge, a transition to a more open and reproducible research is desirable and requires new incentives and infrastructures. This transition is mostly a cultural change, which is best supported by initiatives stemming from the scientific community itself (bottom-up approach). To a lesser extent, it is also a technical issue that requires the development of new tools based on state-of-the art digital technologies.

Licence

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