NFDITalk (5 Feb 2024): What is Open Science for?

In our NFDITalks, scientists from different disciplines present exciting topics around NFDI and research data management. In this episode, Monica Gonzalez-Marquez will talk about "What is Open Science for? Introducing the Heliocentric Model of Open Science Documentation".
Abstract: When we ask people what open science is, we typically receive a broad variety of responses, ranging from “it’s about making sure people can read your papers for free (open access)” to “you have to make your data available (RDM)” to “that’s really complicated to describe”. The truth is that open science is all of these things and more, but it is not necessarily complicated.
In this talk, we present Helio as a model that clearly and quickly explains the goals of the open science movement in contrast to the current scientific dissemination system. We then delve into the the real questions involving the pragmatics of adopting open science as the paradigm for scientific practice. As such, we discuss implementation of the two primary functions of an open scientific knowledge base: comprehension and documentation. For comprehension, we present science reading as evidence-based pedagogy developed specifically to teach how to reconstruct scientific processes from available documentation. For documentation, we introduce the concept of problem arcs as a general structuring mechanism, inherent to human cognition, as a means to accurately and usefully document the problem solving and decision making involved in completing scientific processes.

[@jvcasillas]

Thank you for this wonderful talk. I believe the link in the description do not go to the slides for this talk.

[@nfdi]

Thank you for your positive feedback! And you're right, the slides from another NFDI talk slipped in. We have corrected that.