ResearchProof at Bdebate Open Science
How to build a roadmap for practicing open science
At the beginning of the month, ResearchProof was invited to participate in the B·Debate Open Science held at CosmoCaixa, in Barcelona. B·Debate is an initiative of Biocat and “la Caixa” Foundation, which aims to tackle complex challenges in the field of Life Sciences, by putting together top-notch international scientific events and so fostering debate, collaboration and exchange of knowledge.
The B·Debate Open Science we were invited to was focused on building a roadmap for practicing Open Science, by gathering national and international experts from different disciplines and exchanging knowledge and good practices among participants. What best setting for ResearchProof?
ResearchProof offers a full set of blockchain and cryptography tools to foster open science. Our platform offers different services with increasing levels of openness, all aimed at streamlining the sharing of single, intermediate, negative and complete results in science, speeding up the pace of scientific production and allowing for faster adoption of findings.
We were invited to give flash talks during the event, and to present a poster, which you can download here.
Open science: from values to practice. Building a roadmap for transformative change
The event focused on four main streams of Open Science:
- Open Access
- Ethics, Integrity and Reproducibility in Science
- Research evaluation
- Stakeholder and Citizen engagement.
It was designed as a co-creation experience during dedicated working sessions to build together specific recommendations and finally get to a call for action on Open Science. All the sessions were outstanding. We will give you a short description of 3 of them, and we will come back to some more sessions in the future.
We really enjoyed the talk about open science and open funding by prof. Johan Bollen, from Indiana University. He proposed a system that leverages advances in computational science and the wisdom of the scientific crowd, reducing costs and possibly getting to a more equitable distribution of scientific funding.
Also the session led by Coleen Campbell, from the Max Planck Digital Library of Munich, Germany, was outstanding. Coleen presented about the Open Access 2020 Initiative for Transformative Change in Scholarly Publishing. The Initiative addresses the the need of transformative change and the need of funding for innovative publishing services with a simple roadmap that includes national license negotiations comprising Open Access components.
Arthur Serra Hurtado, doctor in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Barcelona, is conducting a research group on Living Labs and Digital Social Innovation at i2Cat, of which is Deputy Director. It is an innovative project oriented to set up a regional alliance of the different families of “labs” as part of the Regional Innovation Strategy, looking for the generation of an open, collaborative and universal innovation system in Catalonia.
Open Science is the future. Let’s build it together. Join us!
Originally published at https://medium.com on October 18, 2018.
