open science Archives – Generation R

Making Connections: An Interview with Kerstin Göpfrich of Ring-a-Scientist

Gen R on June 14, 2019

Image: Ring-a-Scientist lab videoconference in progress. Courtesy Ring-a-Scientist

Cite as: DOI 10.25815/vdf3-nc44
Göpfrich, Kerstin. Worthington, Simon. ‘Making Connections: An Interview with Kerstin Göpfrich of Ring-a-Scientist’, 2019. https://doi.org/10.25815/vdf3-nc44.

GenR’s editor-in-chief Simon Worthington talks with co-founder Kerstin Göpfrich of Ring-a-Scientist about how the platform for connecting scientists with school students via videoconferencing was started.

A Community Science (AKA Citizen Science) Index

Gen R on May 27, 2019

Tools and Projects

Post-Digital Community Science

An invitation to contribute to the open collaborative index!

Add an item, chat, or leave a comment

Community Science Index

Generation Research is putting together two collaborative indexes to help researchers in developing their community science practice.

The first listing is for FOSS tools and services, for example covering areas like: crowdsourcing, collaborative working, or data science tools.
The second is a list of projects to demonstrate good practice in what can be achieved when engaging more with the public, with an emphasis of showing the different types of spaces and event formats that can be created: environmental monitoring, book sprints and dashes, or DIY universities.

Join us over at the open spreadsheet on the CryptPad platform and add items or leave a comment.

In early June 2019 highlights of the Community Science Index will be published on GenR and at a later date an open collaborative paper will follow summarizing the findings of the indexing process.

Open Participatory Research — Four Challenges for Opening Science Beyond Scientific Institutions

Claudia Göbel on May 3, 2019

Image: Do-It-Together Science Bus, 2017, Waag (BY-NC-SA), https://waag.org/nl/project/do-it-together-science-bus

Post-Digital Community Science

Cite as:

DOI

10.25815/qykn-de07

Citation format: The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition

Göbel, Claudia. ‘Open Participatory Research — Four Challenges for Opening Science Beyond Scientific Institutions’, 2019. https://doi.org/10.25815/qykn-de07.

Claudia Göbel proposes a framework of examination for how Citizen Science and other types of participatory research should form a more prominent part of the much needed cultural change in knowledge institutions. This is to complement the many reforms already underway in other areas of Open Science & Scholarship.

Open Science Top Ten Tools – All Open Source!

Gen R on April 4, 2019

DOI:

10.25815/7hta-ve88

Citation format: The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition

Generation R. ‘Open Science Top Ten Tools – All Open Source!’, 2019. https://doi.org/10.25815/7hta-ve88.

Open Science Learning

A list of general purpose tools for researchers compiled by Generation R which can be used with no additional learning other than standard user interface familiarity.

There will be an advanced ‘Data Scientists 4 All’ Top Ten coming soon 🙂

This top ten index is part of GenRs theme Integrating Open Science Learning into Higher Education (Jan/Mar 2019).

Welcome to Post-Digital Community Science!

Gen R on March 28, 2019

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Post-Digital Community Science

**A Generation Research theme: April/May 2019**

Invitation to contribute!

The theme will start in mid April 2019 and over the course of six weeks GenR will look to offer up examples of cutting edge work in the field from across Europe.

If you would like to make a contribution please drop the editor-in-chief Simon Worthington a line at simon@genr.eu or DM @gen_r_ on Twitter.

In this Generation Research theme the idea is to look at how the general public can participate in the research process and the creation of knowledge as Community Science and how this is reinvigorating a culture of scholarship and science in society at large.

Citizen Science is booming around the world but the degree to which it is open varies greatly, as does formal support for Citizen Science across disciplines, organizations and countries.

‘LIBER Open Science Roadmap’ (Ayris et al. 2018)