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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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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Innovating Open-SciComms: A Collaborative Listing
GenR is hosting a collaborative listing on innovating Open Science Communications: projects, resources, and publication. We’re looking for you to help us make the list of ground breaking projects and resources to share with the Open Science community.
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Moving the Open Science Barcamp Online!
The Open Science Barcamp was hosted by the ‘Communities in New Media’ (GeNeMe) conference organised by the TU Dresden Media Centre on the 7th of October. The move to online only for the barcamp managed to keep the ‘in-the-moment’ spontaneity that makes a barcamp special – showing off group ingenuity and creating a welcoming environment attracting participants from around the world. The format also worked in terms of turning questions and abstract notions into concrete steps that participants could take away.
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