Every few years a new shiny object takes over calls for proposals, grant application themes, and social media commentary. Some last longer than others, while some quickly fade from memory.
Someone should repeat the research that MIT Press funded in 2019 around open infrastructure and tools. It definitely highlighted this shiny object syndrome.
overview of the shared scholarly communication infrastructure published in April 2023
Find this and check it out.
How can we build an open community-led commons of grants data?
interesting paper about replacing journals with more "modern" scholarly infrastructure
In an Open Science context, “infrastructure” -- the "structures and facilities" -- refers to the scholarly communication resources and services, including software, that we depend upon to enable the scientific and scholarly community to collect, store, organise, access, share, and assess research.
Infrastructure is a socio-technical system rather than a technical product.
This is great to see as so often infrastructure is considered to be only within a purely technical layer.
Infrastructure is dynamic.
Also key: A common view of infrastructure as more permanent structures like "roads and bridges", or even digital networks, shapes understanding away from infrastructure as a more dynamic socio-technical system.
Malamud’s General Index
it builds on the following key pillars: open scientific knowledge, open science infrastructures, science communication, open engagement of societal actors and open dialogue with other knowledge systems.
penerbitan makalah di jurnal open access jelas hanyasebagian kecil saja dari lima pilar kunci: open scientific knowledge, open science infrastructures, science communication, open engagement of societal actors.
We need more SCOSS-like experimentation. We need initiatives with short iterations of conceptualization and execution, a sort of trial-and-error mentality as we navigate this complex issue. We need research organisations and libraries to create budget lines for open infrastructures. We need funders to start supporting the maintenance of open infrastructures like the eLife Innovation Initiative or the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation.
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Supporting Open Science Data Curation, Preservation, and Access by Libraries. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. (n.d.). Zoom Video. Retrieved June 28, 2020, from https://zoom.us/webinar/register/2615905946283/WN_W6dYUXQFTqGQjGAZPRB74w
Thaney, K. (2020, April 8). Open Infrastructure in times of crisis: How IOI can help. Invest in Open Infrastructure. https://investinopen.org/2020/04/08/open-infrastructure-in-times-of-crisis.html
Open Letter to the Research and Innovation Community—UK Research and Innovation. (n.d.). Retrieved April 9, 2020, from https://www.ukri.org/news/open-letter-to-the-research-and-innovation-community/
Establish standard models and criteria for funding alternatives to “pay for access” or “pay to publish” (transactional funding models) so that libraries can more easily invest in diverse content and services, including open infrastructure
Yes!
Draft NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing
another body working on scholarly comms infrastructure - but for AI
By “Infrastructure” we mean
The definition of "open infrastructure" (or the software component of open infrastructure) should include an explicit requirement for open-source code. Even an explicit recommendation short of a requirement would be better than the current definition, which is entirely silent the value of opening the code. The Elsevier acquisition of bepress (to use one example among many) would have been much less harmful to the community if the code had been open and user institutions could hold on to the platform, fork it if they wanted, take it in their own direction, and continue using it without becoming Elsevier customers.
A Vision for Scholarly Communication Currently, there is a strong push to address the apparent deficits of the scholarly communication system. Open Science has the potential to change the production and dissemination of scholarly knowledge for the better, but there is no commonly shared vision that describes the system that we want to create.
A Vision for Scholarly Communication
Engaging the Public Through Wikipedia: Strategies and Tools Show affiliations
Engaging the Public Through Wikipedia: Strategies and Tools
There is a serious crisis of discoverability. To overcome it, we have to tear down the walls of dark knowledge and invest in the open discovery infrastructure, esp. user interfaces.
competencies or learning outcomes, educational resources that support the achievement of those outcomes, assessments by which learners can demonstrate their achievement of those outcomes, and credentials that certify their mastery of those outcomes to third parties.
These all feel very product driven from my perspective. Perhaps it's a necessarily administrative position. Of course, David himself has written about this elsewhere, but what about the process, what about pedagogy?