Open Science Barcamp 2021: A GenR Report
This was the first fully online event for the main Open Science Barcamp and as one of the participants said ‘great success – almost as good as “the real thing” ;)’.
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Author: Gen R
Opening the Window of Discourse for Citizen Science
COVID has democratised data science and increasingly the public expect open data, research, and interpretation in more aspects of their lives. Who will be the ones to provide this knowledge for citizens? A proposed community publication The Citizen Science Guide for Research Libraries by the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group looks to explore these questions – putting forward that research libraries have the Open Science skills, infrastructures, and leadership to fulfil this role for the wider society.
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Research Software Engineering – International Coordination
The International Council of RSE Associations has been formed as a coordinating body to support global cooperation. Software engineers in research have been forming national associations – RSEs – over the last several years and have been successful in raising the profile of the occupation in the research life cycle.
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Call to Contribute Citizen Science Guide for Research Libraries
The LIBER working group for citizen science is producing a guide to citizen science for research libraries and is looking for participation and contributions large and small.
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PIDapalooza – Tips From the Top
#PIDapalooza21 2021 takes place 27-28 Jan – the open festival of persistent identifiers. Two days of quick fire sessions on a whole variety of areas aimed at helping the community share implementation questions around making use of PIDs: from handling multilingual publications, national research implementations, to cross national GLAM projects.
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