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OpenScienceMeetupCPH
Open access/Open Science meetup in Copenhagen
Thursday 25th September, 17.00-19.00, at a cafe(?) in central Copenhagen
I'll (Niels Erik) will try to ask Cafe Nutid (http://cafenutid.dk/), if they have space. Alternative suggestions are welcome here: ......
Update: Cafe Nutid hasn't replied, but theres an other event starting at 20. indicating, that it'll be available from 17-19. So I think we should chose this venue, alternatives arre close by if everything happens to fail...
This will be a first meetup introducing the ideas of open access/open science as well as actual practice within the field. Ideally the meetup can function as a starting point to connect open science-interested people in DK/Cph.
Tentitative agenda:
- Welcome + who's Open Knowledge Denmark, very short (~ 3 min)
- Introduction to Open Access, David Carroll: Short introduction to the principles of Open Access. What, why, how? (5-10 min)
- Martin Borch: Short introduction to open science, concrete open science projects, biologigaragen/citizen science. (15-20 min?)
- David Carroll: Open Access Button and open access activism/student activism (15-20 min?)
- Questions, networking, small talk
How to make people show up/know about the event: spread the word through Open Knowledge DK blog (dk.okfn.org), mailinglist, Twitter, Facebook and word of mouth. Spread flyers/posters at universities? Who has good connections to student communities or the like?
- I'm currently studying at the University of Copenhagen so I can spread the word there (David)
- I have a few connections to DTU and also biology at KU (Malthe)
Blogpost is up at: http://dk.okfn.org/2014/09/15/get-involved-with-open-access-meetup-om-aben-videnskab-i-kobenhavn/ - Thanks for drafting everyone! Let me know if I missed something.
- I can [...] push to the people I know and through biologigaragen maillist and newsletter.
- noce, I hope it made sense to use a danish term - ps. will you tweet it?
Foreløbig dagsorden:
- Christian Villum ? Velkomst + hvem er Open Knowledge Denmark, meget kort (~ 3 min)
- Hvem kan lave en god introduktion, David Carroll?: Kort introduktion til principperne for open access/open science. Hvad, hvorfor og hvordan? (15-20 min?)
- Martin Borch: Kort introduktion til konkrete open science projekter, biologigaragen/citizen science (15-20 min?)
- David Carroll: Open Access Button og open access activisme/studenter aktivisme (15-20 min?)
- (red: jeg synes OpenStreetMap og Wikipedia er borgervidenskab) gode eksempler nogen der kan fortælle om dem (Malthe)?? (Kim: Hvis det er OpenStreetMap så "plejer man" at hive fat i Søren Johannesen (@neogeografen) eller Peter Brodersen (@peterbrodersen, for Wikipedia er det som regel Ole @Palnatoke Andersen))
- Spørgsmål, netværk, small talk
Who's planning to attend (place your name below...)
- Niels Erik Kaaber Rasmussen (will only attend first ~15 min, sorry)
- David Carroll, Open Access Button
- Kim Bach
- Martin Malthe Borch
- Christian Villum
- Lasse Skovgaard Jensen
- Finn Årup Nielsen, faan@dtu.dk, DTU Compute, @fnielsen.
Minutes from the meeting
Christian Villum introduces.event and OKFN-DK
-open government Denmark
David Carroll - slides here http://www.slideshare.net/davidcarroll9066/open-knowledge-denmark-meetup
david@openaccessbutton.org
Open access buttion introduction, mark when you hit a pay-wall.
Tetrahaidron 39000 USD one person one year.
publishing is generally very expensive, but does it need to be?
subscriptions of scientific journals pr. year averaging on ~1500 pounds pr. year
Elsevier, springer etc. have among the highest for profit margins across the board (higher than McDonalds etc.) - earned by owning rights to papers on science that is 80% publicly funded.
80% of research is publicly funded - shouldn't the public have access?
OA builds on this idea; "free immediate online access to scientific and scholarly research"
Two paths to Open Access:
Self-archiving
Open Access journals - over 9,000 journals across the world (Plos One is an example, very well regarded)
Lots or repositories (over 2000) for OA publishing
OA programs across the world
- Kenya, "Students Have a Right to Access" (?)
- UK, BMA
How to become an Open Access advocate?
- Tell everyone you know / Spread the word, e.g. using: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rVH1KGBCY
- Conferences, for instance OpenCon2014 (November 2014) - opencon2014.org
- Open Access Week, Oct 20-26 - theme this year "Generation Open", openaccessweek.org - World Bank is involved
- If you're a student, have your org join R2RC
- Push for OA policy at your institution
- Do presentations and workshops
- Start an OA project
- Publish your work using OA
Open Access Button - https://www.openaccessbutton.org/
- Idea by David and a friend of his, a bookmarklet (java-script) - will eventually become a plugin also (Chrome, Firefox)
- Soon picked up lots of media attention - lots of buzz
- Maps whenever people gets denied access to research
- Builds support for the OA movement
- Help people get access to the research they're trying to access (doesn't always work;)
- It's open source - github.com/oabutton
- Opening data, coming out very soon - stay tuned! (meta data, with sensitive data redacted)
- Launching brand new tool soon
- Invites everyone to join - see act.openaccessbutton.org - or dev.openaccessbutton.org - or follow @OA_Button
- Is supporting Researcher Diego Gomez alongside CC, EFF, Internet Archive, Public Nowledge - he is facing incarceration for violating copyrights
Slides will be online on slideshare.com
SHERPA/RoMEO database: info on copyright policy of journal publishers. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
Martin Malthe Borch - open science projects (and related projects)
- Generally experimenting with design practices and open science
- Co-founded Biologigaragen, associated with the Labitat hackerspace
- Pursuing the idea of "citizen science", science involving the public
Examples of crowdsourcing (but not citizen science, although many see it as such)
- SETI at Home
- FoldIt - protein folding
Citizen science is more based on public effort, collecting and uploading the data - in an open database
- Public Laboratory is an example, for instance they did a project where citizens used ballons to map the BP oilspill
- BioCommons - focusing on the right for everyone to be allowed to access all of the biosphere
Everyone can join Biologigaragen, not just for biologists and academics
To stay in touch, join the Biologaragen mailing list:
http://biologigaragen.org/
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People who attended:
Ivo Grigorov, ivgr@aqua.dtu.dk works for DTU Aqua - fundraising / project management, interested in how university scientist can engage with open science projects and the public in general.
Mikael Elbæk, miel@dtic.dtu.dk, works for DTU Library currently; but will move to data management / science 2.0 1st Oct, has been working with OA for the last couple of years, working with open access policies and infrastructure development
Finn Årup Nielsen, works for DTU Compute - data analysis, involved also with wikipedia, @fnielsen, faan@dtu.dk, (https://dk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Forside)
Miriam, looking for ideas - interested in altertive ways to do science, just finished PhD (computer science, embedded systems)
Christian, works for Open Knowledge and does open activism - lead for Creative Commons Denmark, runs Uhrlaut Records (uhrlaut.com), member of Science Friction
Emil, works for DTU - looking to become a teacher, co-founder of Biologigaragen - insterested in cross-polination of various science communities
Lars Rønn Olsen, lro@binf.ku.dk, works for University of Copenhagen also has a background from DTU - cancer researcher, publishing as a senior author, now have to deal rights issues and figure out whether open access is the way forward
Mogens, geographer Danmarks Grundforskningsfond (Danish National Research Foundation) - very curious towards OA, have spent many years in research institutions, knows how many difficulties come from not having access to research
David Carroll, david@openaccessbutton.org, Queen's University Belfast/University of Copenhagen, Co-Lead - Open Access Button, Steering Committee - Open Policy Network