Dear wiki-researchers,
My apologies for shameless self-promotion and for possible
cross-postings : if you're interested in open science and its complex
relationship with software, I will talk about this topic next Wednesday.
I will be using Wikipedia as an example of what it means to be open in a
world of CC-BY-SA licensing, and especially the consequences for the
concept of plagiarism
"Only the initiates will have the secrets revealed" : The politics and
materialities of open science
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Käte Hamburger Kolleg "cultures of research" lecture series
in Aachen and [online](https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/lecture-series/)
Wednesday, January 26th, 5pm CET
Open Science has been pervading the scientific world in the last decade.
It is a buzzword, and a promise. First, through Open Access, as a combat
against corporate publishers, then through Open Data as a mean to
enhance sharing practices, and more recently, and more timidly, through
the promotion of Open Software. Strikingly, Open Software in science has
attracted until now less interest even though Open Science itself is
rooted in 1980s free software principles.
This talk focuses on software in science and its diversity of
entanglements with openness. Software has been "eating" the world and
science is no exception. From Excel to complex "big" scientific
instruments, via Photoshop or molecular modelling software suites, the
vast majority of software used in science is not open, and a vast
majority has nothing to do with computer science. When software is open,
it is very often naively represented as a solution to all issues in
science, especially reproducibility. Yet, even open software is full of
epistemic issues, from governance to consistency, and the consequences
of its influence on the rest of open science are often misunderstood,
especially regarding licensing policies.
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Alexandre Hocquet
Archives Henri Poincaré & RWTH c:o/re
https://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet
https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/fellows/prof-alexandre-hocquet/
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