OpenScience becomes new standard in energy systems research funded by BMWK
Karl-K...@dlr.de
Hi everyone,
just for those who are not aware yet: In the next German energy research program of BMWK, OpenScience will become kind of a default and we now have the chance to give feedback to the current draft:
Have a nice weekend,
Kiên
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Robbie Morrison
HI Kiên, all
I ran that announcement thru the DeepL translator and made a couple of hand edits and some bolding (the usual caveats apply therefore):
Key points for open science in energy system analysis published
The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) has published a key issues paper on Open Science in energy system analysis. Head of Department Christian Maaß will present the paper today, Tuesday [that being 8 November 2022], at the 6th annual meeting of the System Analysis Research Network. With this, the ministry supports the accelerated knowledge transfer of research results and promotes innovations and new business models for the energy system.
Starting 9 November, at the annual meeting of the Systems Analysis Research Network, experts from research, business and politics will discuss how to create a resilient energy system of the future and what contribution energy systems analysis can make. Commenting on the importance of systems analysis research, Christian Maaß, head of BMWK's Department II "Heat, Hydrogen and Efficiency", says: "Decision-makers in business, politics and society need extensive fact-based orientation knowledge. Energy system models and analyses can provide this. They are created in close, interdisciplinary exchange, as undertaken by the research network."
The key issues paper now presents a strategy that includes concrete measures for project funding. Among other things, the aim is to increase the transparency and reproducibility of research results and to better bundle them. In order to be able to use the added value of Open Science more effectively, further training needs of the systems analysis community are also addressed. Around 150 experts from the Systems Analysis Research Network participated in the development of the strategy.
Background: Open science is a collective term for openly accessible data (open data), openly licensed program code (open source) and free access to scientific publications (open access). An effective open science strategy makes it possible to compare energy system analytical models with each other and thus to reliably plan the energy supply. The Energy Systems Analysis Research Network initiated by the BMWK has been in existence since 2015 and serves as a networking platform for its approximately 900 members from science, industry and politics. It supports the funding activities of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection by having its members further develop research questions and advise the BMWK on research funding.
I sometimes connect with open science advocates. They are not especially focused on the legal context and on public licensing in general. The real touchstone for this kind of licensing is the open source movement. It is widely acknowledged that a license in some form is required to run code made public. But that is not so clear for data made public. So pushing for CC‑BY‑4.0 on datasets and on platforms and CC0‑1.0 on metadata is useful in this context.
For those not aware, Germany has something like 100 (Tom Brown) and 120 (Philipp Trotter at a COP27 side event on 7 November) energy system models of various types — the vast majority closed source and strongly protected by their hosting institutes. So the above policy represents a sea change for sure!
Hydrogen is a hot topic too in Germany at present. But the
German government, to its credit, will only consider green
hydrogen. One example: https://www.wasserstoff-kompass.de/en/
I could not find the paper from Christian Maaß as mentioned in
the first paragraph. If anyone knows its URL, that could be
useful.
@Kiên: thanks for posting.
Robbie
Hi everyone,
just for those who are not aware yet: In the next German energy research program of BMWK, OpenScience will become kind of a default and we now have the chance to give feedback to the current draft:
Have a nice weekend,
Kiên
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Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrte.V. (DLR)
German Aerospace Center
Institute for Networked Energy Systems | Energy Systems Analysis | Curiestr. 4 | 70563 Stuttgart
Karl-Kiên Cao, PhD | Project Manager
Phone +49711 6862-459 | karl-k...@dlr.de
DLR is represented by the Executive Board and employees authorised by it.
Head of DLR's legal department, Linder Hoehe, 51147 Cologne, can provide information (DLR.de/imprint).
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Tom Brown
To get the paper you have to click on a link buried in the text, here's
the direct link:
https://www.energieforschung.de/lw_resource/datapool/systemfiles/elements/files/ECDC9E847363078EE0537E695E868D9B/live/document/Eckpunktepapier_Open_Science_Systemanalyse.pdf
It's good, but there are the usual weaselly get-out clauses for sensible
data from companies:
"Keine Pflicht zu OS: In begründeten Ausnahmefällen, zum Beispiel
Vorhaben mit interessanten realen Anwendungsfällen und sensiblen
Datenbeiträgen von Praxispartnern oder bei kommerziellen
Verwertungsinteressen am Modell (zum Beispiel in Beratungsunternehmen),
soll es keinen Zwang zur OS-Verwertung geben. Zu OS alternative
Mindeststandards der Transparenz, wie zum Beispiel das Erstellen von
sogenannten Factsheets sind aber obligatorisch."
We will be pushing for a defined list of allowed exceptions rather than
this vague language.
We should also push for "standard licences", both to help Newbies who
don't know what to pick and to have interoperability.
The 100 number is taken from the air.
Best,
Tom
On 11/11/2022 16:25, Robbie Morrison wrote:
> HI Kiên, all
>
> I ran that announcement thru the DeepL translator
>
>
> Key points for open science in energy system analysis published
>
> (BMWK) has published a key issues paper on *Open Science in energy
> system analysis*. Head of Department Christian Maaß will present the
> meeting of the System Analysis Research Network. With this, the
> ministry supports the accelerated knowledge transfer of research
> results and promotes innovations and new business models for the
> energy system.
>
> Starting 9 November, at the annual meeting of the Systems Analysis
> Research Network, experts from research, business and politics will
> discuss how to create a resilient energy system of the future and
> what contribution energy systems analysis can make. Commenting on
> "Decision-makers in business, politics and society need extensive
> fact-based orientation knowledge. Energy system models and analyses
> can provide this. They are created in close, interdisciplinary
> exchange, as undertaken by the research network."
>
> The key issues paper now presents a strategy that includes concrete
> measures for project funding. Among other things, the aim is to
> increase the transparency and reproducibility of research results
> and to better bundle them. In order to be able to use the added
> value of Open Science more effectively, further training needs of
> the systems analysis community are also addressed. Around 150
> experts from the Systems Analysis Research Network participated in
> the development of the strategy.
>
>> Have a nice weekend,
>>
>> Kiên
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Robbie Morrison
Hi Ludwig, all
The Open
Energy Platform gets some coverage in that PDF from the
German economics ministry. Well done Ludwig Hülk and colleagues
at the Reiner
Lemoine Institute (RLI) and elsewhere!
Robbie
Ludwig Hülk
Hi Robbie, Hi OpenMod.
Indeed the „Eckpunkte-Paper“ from BMWK is a huge success and an important milestone for the (german) energy modelling community.
Let me add some observations and thoughts:
- The “Eckpunktepapier” is not a binding document, but it shows the position of the BMWK section “Energiesystemanalyse”
- it acts as a solid basis for the next Energieforschungsprogramm (8.EFP)
- It is a shift from “open by choice” to “open by default”
- Justified exceptional cases are necessary, unjustified loopholes should be minimized
- The OEP is mentioned 7 times in total and will become the central repo database for energy data
- Since the OEP only allows standard open data licenses, this constraint is implied
- Adding your models, frameworks and in future your scenarios to the OEP factsheets will be mandatory
- The factsheets are already the largest collection of information about our domain (227 models, 24 frameworks)
To be honest, I am overwhelmed by this development.
This goes beyond of what I dreamed and expected when we started some 5 years ago.
It is the earning of a small but powerful developer community around OVGU Magdeburg, Öko-Institut and RLI.
I am happy to represent the Open Energy Family and will continue to act as main contact person.
This is my personal appeal to everybody in this community:
Stop spending your time on your inhouse models now.
Stop thinking about making your model open-source but become part of the existing collaborative frameworks.
Spend your time on making software and data interoperable and include it into other work.
Alone you may go fast, but together we go far. We are in a climate emergency, we need to go fast and far!
We will sort the implications, collect the ongoing developments and will publish a more elaborated piece shortly.
Best
Ludwig
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Karl-K...@dlr.de
Dear all,
I would like to pick-up this topic again. I really like all the progress we make particularly with regard to OpenData and OpenSource. However, I have the feeling that OpenAccess is sometimes forgotten in the discussion. So I would like to ask you on your opinion to push the following (and which I already discussed with our librarians at DLR):
All activities of libraries, research funders, and also the recommendations of the German Council of Science and Humanities aim at transforming the scientific publication system and ensuring the switch to "Open". This excludes hybrid articles which rather serve as additional sources of income for publishers.
In EU projects, publication in pure open access journals or the green way of open access (self-archiving of preprints and of author’s versions after an embargo of 1 typically year) is already a hard requirement as far as I understand.
This also corresponds to the strategy at the Helmholtz Association.
Example formulations: https://www.openaire.eu/how-to-comply-with-horizon-europe-mandate-for-publications: "An APC to publish in a traditional subscription-based journal that offers an OA option (so-called hybrid journals), will not be covered under the grant."
Hence, I would suggest a feedback on the “Eckpunkte-Papier” that stresses a clear definition of OpenAccess.
What do you think?
Best,
Kiên
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Ludwig Hülk
Robbie Morrison
Hi Ludwig, all
We are currently discussing and conceptualizing an embargo section on the OEP for data.Happy to hear any thoughts and experiences.
Much this question arose when I undertook a limited set of interviews for a COP27 briefing (that has still to surface as best I can tell).
One well‑known framework project had informally "embargoed" some
code contributions until the related publications had cleared
review. This was by general agreement and the code concerned was
not hidden or locked as I understood things. Noting too that
GitHub and probably GitLab support private forks from public
repos.
The embargo question is one area where the FOSS ethos and
academic requirements collide in some senses. But equally,
work‑arounds seem quite manageable.
with best wishes, Robbie