Upcomming Meeting July

we will doodle the date

Meeting May 25th, 2022

Attendees

• Franziska Harnisch (FU University Library, Open Science Community Building)
• Maatje Sophia Duine (Berlin Open Access Bureau, BUA Open Science dashboard project)
• Armin Glatzmeier (UB, wissenschaftliche Integrität)
• Néhémie Strupler (FU Berlin)
• Christina Riesenweber
• Maike Neufend
• Sascha Eckhold
• Stefan Skupien

Topics

Recommendations for a joint initiative on Open Research Berlin (Maike Neufend, OABB)

input by Maike

-one step would be to implement a central advising point for questions regarding legal and ethical issues

Goal

-transform OA bureau into OS bureau

Current status

-after elections last year, 2021: new persons and new political allignement => outcome of the initiative uncertain

discussion

-Berlin University Alliance is planing a OA/ OS strategy

-What would be the impact of a OS-strategy?

=> thesis: It would not be directly relevant for scientist

=>Allocation of funds with more direct impact on scientists

-What can a central advising point for legal and ethical issues do?

=> joining forces and make space for specialisation (one special field would be legal clearing house (rechtliche Clearingstelle))

-there is no other group like the OSWG in Berlin

-Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften mission statement on OS: https://www.bbaw.de/bbaw-digital/open-science

starting point/ main goal of the OSWG in 2019 was the following

When the topic becomes politically relevant, we want to have an activated community of practice => practical doing as an addition to strategic planning

Project ONMERRIT analysed OS

• the project: https://on-merrit.eu/
  • EU-financed project to critically examine the perpetuation of disadvantages/formation of new inequalities through Open Science
    
    • answer: yes
      
      • different. Stakeholder with different goals how to implement OS/ pictures of OS
      • science itself remains unequal, established mechanisms remain active => cumulative advantage
    • OA

      • Simply publishing research as an open access publication does not automatically mean that the published information is available to all in the sense of being understandable.

      • hierachy between different OA journals

    • OS practices for researchers: sometimes high discrepancy between personal values and those of the institutions

• • • Proposals for action in the 4 main fields (https://zenodo.org/record/6276753#.Yo3st99CTb0)

      • Resource-intensity of Open Research: Putting open and responsible research into practice requires considerable resources (including infrastructures, services, and training). The structural inequalities that exist within institutions, regions and nations, and on a global scale, create structural advantages for well-resourced actors and structural disadvantages for less-resourced actors, in terms of capacity and ability to engage in these practices.
      • Article-processing charges and the stratification of Open Access publishing: The article processing charge (APC)  model within Open Access publishing seems to discriminate against those with limited resources (especially those from less-resourced regions and institutions). These facts seem to be having effects of stratification in terms of who publishes where. 
      • Societal inclusion in research and policy-making: Open and responsible research processes take place within broader social systems where inequalities continue to structure access and privilege certain actors while others are disadvantaged. Despite laudable aims of equity, inclusion and diversity in open and responsible research, the most marginalised, vulnerable, and poor remain mostly excluded. 
      • Reform of reward and recognition: Institutional processes for reward and recognition not only do not sufficiently support the uptake of open and responsible research, but often get in the way of them. This disadvantages those who wish to take up these practices (putting early-career researchers especially at risk).

Discussion

-Are these results new and in what way? => What can be derived from this in practice?

-point 4: How can an institution implement this in concrete terms?

Meeting April 27th, 2022

Attendees

• Franziska Harnisch (FU University Library, Open Science Community Building)
• Maatje Sophia Duine (Berlin Open Access Bureau, BUA Open Science dashboard project)
• Néhémie Strupler
• Andreas Hübner (Geowissenschaften, UB FDM Liaison Librarian, NFDI4Earth)
• Kristina Eichel

Topics

Whats up?

• Invitation to public opening event of the project "Critical Library Perspectives" with a keynote 'Politics of the Library', more details here
• First Open Science Lunch May 12th, 12:30pm, details

Discussion of Berliner Appell

Questions

-What can we do to make the appeal work? Who to connect with, who to approach at the university level?

collection of initiatives on different structural/ organizational levels:

Berlin

https://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Fellow-Programm_Freies_Wissen/Berliner_Appell

https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/open-access-berlin/2022/03/15/empfehlung-fuer-eine-landesinitiative-open-research-berlin/

Germany

https://reproducibilitynetwork.de

• formulation of requests on how grass-root could be supported by top-down actions
• Kristina is involved with her project

Conclusion

-different networks/ initiatives work on this topic

further action

Maaike invites Maxi and Maike to talk about the initiative on the  Berlin-level (https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/open-access-berlin/2022/03/15/empfehlung-fuer-eine-landesinitiative-open-research-berlin/)

What you do, when you hit a paywall?

informal talk about it

-publications about the Ithaka study "Chancelling the Big Deal"

• report by Ithaka S+R about the study:Cooper, Danielle, and Oya Y. Rieger. "What’s the Big Deal?: How Researchers Are Navigating Changes to Journal Access ." Ithaka S+R. Ithaka S+R. 22 June 2021. Web. 28 April 2022. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.315570 
• Interview of the university library's team with Ithaka: https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/cancelling-the-big-deal-project-spotlight/
• article of the university library's team about the study and first results: Hagel, Michael Dominik, Harnisch, Franziska, Kowalak, Mario and Wagner, Cosima. "Projekt Benutzungsforschung International: Beteiligung der Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin am Projekt „Cancelling the Big Deal“ (Ithaka S+R 2021)" ABI Technik, vol. 41, no. 4, 2021, pp. 255-258. https://doi.org/10.1515/abitech-2021-0043

Concept for OER Community Learning Events

-three parts/ steps (action to discussion)

1. Workshop with teaching staff to create own OER materials

target group: teaching staff, who would like to do it, but did not yer

aim: create own OER materials fast

2. Presentation of recent study "Reflecting Open Practices on Digital Infrastructures" (see poster)

presentation of results regarding OER

discussion about finding/ thesis: would semester plans for basic methodical seminars be useful as OER?

3. Input and discussion about openness in the context of the university focussing on OER

Is the aim to produce high quality teaching materials right aim or does it hinder OER?

Why should I produce OER?

questions for OSWG attendees

Which aspects are most interesting for you?

Would you attend the three events?

• Why?
• What would make you attend?

feedback

-practical question to be answered in workshop: where to best put one's OERs?

-interesting question would be, what to do with student's feedback on OER materials

-semester plans as OER would be interesting for teaching staff to have kind of tool box for the areas (topic, method, material)

-there is a collection of for geosciences

https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/digitale-lehre/ressourcen/geo/index.html

=> What should be done with them regarding further use, long term archiving?

=> Are these materials OER?

admin

Who would like to be added to the homepage or wiki of the OSWG?

result

all of today's attendees want to be added and get writing access to the wiki

All others are welcome as well! If you are interested, get in touch with Franziska

Meeting February 23rd, 2022

Attendees

• Franziska Harnisch (FU University Library, Open Science Community Building)
• Moritz Maxeiner (FU Information Science, Dahlem Research Center for Machine Learning, Open.Make, Open Hardware)
• Sascha Eckhold (FU UL/CeDiS, Services for Teaching & Learning, Trainings, OER)
• Cosima Wagner (FU UL, Research Librarian for Digital Humanities, RDM, Area Studies & East Asian Studies, Japanese Studies)
• Malte Henningsen (PostDoc PhilGeist Linguistics, Neuroscience of language, neuronal networks, interactive data visualisation, "cross disciplinary" data literacy education)
• Maatje Sophia Duine (Berlin Open Access Bureau, BUA Open Science dashboard project)
• Dennis Mischke (Ada Lovelace DH Center, FU)
• Julien Colomb (Research Data Manager, Open Hardware, OpenMake-Project, HU)
• Esther Asef (University Library, Research Data Management Officer, FU)
• Alex Fütterer (University Library, Research Data Management Officer, FU)
• Néhémie Strupler

Suggested topics

Action

Let's plan a community learning event for April or May!

Aim:

• get our name out, tie in to our program (i.e. OER),
• focus on facilitation of cultural change what "open science" means, OA and OS (difference?),
  
  • OER is a very good example / use case for that!
  • cross-disciplinary data literacy and OER?
  • challenge to connect OER and OS?!
  • → combine OS, cultural change and OER!
    • "Hacky Hour"/ Open Meeting on examples for students: visualization and OS, low level event
    • Short intro / pitfalls of doing OER, first steps for people
    • Teaching, using resources which are open, how do you know that they are really open? → there are regular workshops from FU UL/CedIS already
    • collaborate with OER "practitioners" from the university community in the workshop
• Next step: conceptualization of OER workshop → please contact Franziska & Sascha

Suggestions for topics

• • Open Hardware
  • Visualisation
  • OER

Methods

• • short workshop?
  • hacky hour?

For whom? taget group?

Public: within the university? general public?

• general public: "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft" - do we want to educate the general public with an event on OS?

• maybe concentrate first on the university

Exchange

• Report from the Una Europa OER Staff Week (Sascha):
  • 1Europe: create one virtual joint campus for 9 Una Europa universities
  • Focus of the staff week: create an OER mission statement for Una Europa; not a policy but a starting point for creating a policy; advance collaboration with regard to OER within Una Europa.
    • Establish OER at FU
    • Establish OER within Una Europa
    • Definition: OER = learning, teaching AND research (based on UNESCO definition), but aiming at "receiving a copy" not just "access" to a resources

Admin

• Future of the mailing list - info channel for everyone vs. organisation channel for our community
  • keep it as it is...
• How to agree on dates for the meetings (via poll, fixed day each month...)
  • foodle/dudle is ok
  • monthly meetings
  • mornings/afternoons

Suggested Schedule

Meeting January 27th, 2022

Schedule

Aim of the meeting

The main aim of this meeting is getting to know each other respectively getting in touch again.

Furthermore, it would be exciting to learn which topics everyone is currently dealing with and which developments in the field of OS you are particularly interested in. 

How shall we proceed with the OSWG in terms of regular meetings, topics to be covered.

Notes

Attendees

• Franziska Harnisch (UB, Open Science Community Building)
• Moritz Maxeiner (Informatik, Open.Make, Open Hardware)
• Sascha Eckhold (UB/CeDiS, Dienste für Lehre und Studium, Fortbildung, OER)
• Daniel Mietchen (Biophysik, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9488-1870, https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.68.66685, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002027, Wikipedia, Wikidata) 
• Esther Asef (UB, Forschungdsdatenmanagement)
• Andreas Hübner (Geowissenschaften, UB FDM Liaison Librarian, NFDI4Earth)
• Cosima Wagner (UB, Forschungsbibliothekarin Digital Humanities FDM Area Studies & Ostasienwissenschaften, Japanologie)
• Malte Henningsen (PostDoc PhilGeist Linguistik, Neuronale Netze)
• Sibylle Söring (UB, Leitung Team FDM; Digital Humanities)
• Alex Fütterer (Team FDM)
• Christina Riesenweber (UB, Team Open Access und wissenschaftliches Publizieren)

Topics

• establishing and implementing Open Science beacon projects @FU
  
  • going through Openness from A-Z
  • people can watch, participate or copy
  • model: Fellow Programm Freies Wissen, Wikimedia
• creating a collection of Use Cases und Best Practices to have a place where to refer to and look up practical hints
• taking part in shaping the Open Science Policy of FU
• organize events to collaboratively learn about a certain topic (inviting experts as well as sharing knowledge we already have in our circle) - possibly events for a more general public
• visualization tools
• data analysis and data exploration
  
  • will also be priority of new DH-Center (Ada Lovelace Center for Digital Humanities, AP Dennis Mischke https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/ub/ueber-uns/team/mischke/index.html)
• interim publications and interim releases with value for teaching
  • Software and Hardware are interim products, their creation should also be credited/ rewarded

What's next for OSWG

• Include "Open Scholarship" and "Open Research" to better address humanities
• involve students/ representatives of the student body
• involve people, who deal with teaching in higher education
• We go on collecting and sharing ideas here in the wiki (Contact Franziska to get writing permission or send your remarks directly to Franziska)
• We try to attract more interested people

• We will meet monthly
  • next meeting is sheduled for 23.02.2022- 11am
  • suggested topics can be added in the wiki in the section "suggested topics" of each meeting