Barcamp Open Science 2024: The limits of openness? // Join us on 5 September!
Guido Scherp
Dear colleagues,
Join us at Barcamp Open Science 2024 (tenth edition 🎉) !
👉 5 September 2024,
University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (or online)
👉 barcamp-open-science.eu
Registration is now open and while you are on it, you are already invited to bring in topics to be discussed. Participation is free!
The year is 2024 and the idea of Open Science feels almost established, i.e. old enough the enter the canon of the "history of ideas" and its first iteration of historiography. Which is also true for the Barcamp Open Science which is now and impessively ten years old, already.
After lingering around for a couple of years within the context of the formerly much more famous and embracing concept of Open Access, Open Science was finally pushed to a higher level of formal recognition in 2015, when it became an official designator used by the European Commission. Since then "Open Science" gained popularity in various ways. Beside labeling a particular science policy approach, it spun off as a somewhat natural evolution of Open Access extending past the question of access to research results and publications and gaining traction as an ideal, all-embracing mode of scientific and scholarly practice.
On this trajectory of use, the "open" seemingly became less and less defined. In 2024 it is more difficult than ever to recognize the actual limits of the idea and the concept. Hence, the history of open science could be written as a story of radicalization by associative expansion of interpretation. It is obvious that open science cannot and should not be random and arbitrary research. Effectively combining methodological rigor with openness and different forms of participation might be the core challenge of the present.
The Barcamp Open Science 2024 would like to address this layer specifically without, of course, losing sight of all the other topics and aspects of Open Science. Thanks to the wonderful cooperation with Open Access Brandenburg, this time we will meet up in Potsdam, in the actual and a virtual one. As usual, everybody is welcome, but only as much as places are available. On site, physicality still imposes limits. Online, on the other hand, we can be much more generous.
Greetings from the barcamp orga team 😀
p.s. If we don't see each other in Potsdam, perhaps at the Open Science Festival in Mainz? It's also worth taking a look at the (original) Open Science Festival with Barcamp in the Netherlands.