{"id":3412,"date":"2021-02-22T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genr.interpunct.dev\/?p=3412"},"modified":"2021-03-08T14:01:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T12:01:17","slug":"open-science-barcamp-2021-a-genr-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genr.interpunct.dev\/open-science-barcamp-2021-a-genr-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Science Barcamp 2021: A GenR Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This was the first fully online event for the main Open Science Barcamp<\/a> and as one of the participants said \u2018great success \u2013 almost as good as \u201cthe real thing\u201d ;)\u2019. Ninety-two participants quickly spun-up twelve sessions and a lot of productive spin-offs as well as some good lessons learned for evolving online Barcamp organisation. Barcamps are open community events, where participants pitch short sessions and if they get enough votes or support they go ahead, \u2018BarCamps – an international network of user-generated conferences<\/a>\u2019 (Wikipedia).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open Science Barcamp links<\/p><\/div>

Barcamp meta pad<\/a> | Barcamp home<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It was nearly a year ago that the Open Science Barcamp was being held in person at Wikimedia Deutschland\u2019s offices in Berlin and already strict hygiene policies were in force for COVID. But it wasn\u2019t until the following day that the Berlin Senate announced that all scientific meetings we\u2019re to be suspended and shortly after lockdown began. A year on and now all our meetings are online, but even after Zoom fatigue the barcamp lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What has changed for Open Science in the last year is that the digital-shift is the new normal and that the social agenda of Open Science has gained in ascendance and articulation \u2013 equality, equity, and knowledge justice are center stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The day started with a ignite talk from Felicitas Kruschick (@felicitaskru<\/a>) on inclusive education, and knowledge equality and inequality. The presentation was based on her own research project on Inclusive Education in rural communities in Ghana and more recently her inclusion as a Wikimedia Open Science Fellow 2020<\/a>. Felicitas posed a number of questions for Open Science in a global context and if \u2018open\u2019 is enough: its efficacy, ambitions for equity, and what is overlooked if Open Science is assumed to be global when the inequalities of the Global South are not addressed by equitable rebalancing and the voices of the Global South are not part of discourse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The barcamp sessions for the day were packed and it\u2019s worth listing them here with their respective linked pads (excellently maintained):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barcamp metapad<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Learner Generated Content as Open Educational Resources<\/a><\/li>
  2. (Re-)using available research data in the social, educational, behavioral and economic sciences<\/a><\/li>
  3. Discussing Approaches of Single Source Publishing in Research and Education | Community Networking<\/a><\/li>
  4. Knowledge Inequity & Open Science criteria as a way out of it?<\/a><\/li>
  5. At Your (Data) Service: How Can We Expand Research Data Management \u2018Service Portfolios\u2019<\/a><\/li>
  6. Embargo periods in Open Science projects<\/a><\/li>
  7. Publication infrastructures that support reproducibility<\/a><\/li>
  8. How to support open scientists within your university?<\/a><\/li>
  9. Recipes for Open Science? Let\u2019s cook a community<\/a><\/li>
  10. Open Knowledge Maps Custom Services<\/a><\/li>
  11. Privacy preserving Open Data<\/a><\/li>
  12. Open Science Elections<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Below is a view into a selection of three barcamp sessions that took place, each lasting forty minutes, although being online means minus the usual count-down clock that sits on a table at the center of a barcamp pushing on the discussion forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Discussing Approaches of Single Source Publishing in Research and Education | Community Networking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Pad link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The session was moderated by Axel D\u00fcrkop @xldrkp<\/a>. The session was looking at how to bring together different stakeholders from the Open Science community – software projects and researchers wanting an improved publishing system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    A good part of the session was spent on familiarising one another with what \u2018single source publishing\u2019 is about, its importance, and how it touches on a variety of parts of the research cycle and maybe pain points in working on and publishing papers and other publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Axel gave a short description of single source publishing (SSP) as \u2018one text, three other formats in the end\u2019, and it is this type of sane rationalisation that SSP want to bring to the table. But unfortunately it\u2019s just the tip of the ice berg and below this is a mountain of complexity: formats, platforms, publishers, legacy systems, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    By some means interoperability and portability needs to be achieved for publishing and this is a goal of SSP. This is just one example of the direction SSP is going in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Addressing the perspective of the author it can be seen that simple tools still don\u2019t exist in the world and the SSP community working together could enable the innovation needed to bring them into being. For example plain text pads or Google docs do not address needs of academics – try making endnotes and footnotes with specific citation styles and they will fall down. Most definitely producing the three formats that Axel noted is not possible – that are publication ready, instead of just a file formats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The session was driving at creating a community out of the discussion and there was a strong interest in this idea, so if SSP interests you, best contact Axel @xldrkp<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Knowledge Inequity & Open Science criteria as a way out of it?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Pad link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n

    If you don't know the distinction between inequality, equality, equity & justice, now you know. Share the knowledge.\ud83c\udf4e pic.twitter.com\/OUiX0aDxpR<\/a><\/p>— \ud835\udda0\ud835\uddc6\ud835\uddbb\ud835\uddbe\ud835\uddcb\ud83c\udf0a (@AnIllicitWriter) February 17, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>