2024:Program/Strengthening Wikimedia Collaborations with and for Open Science
Session title: Strengthening Wikimedia Collaborations with and for Open Science
- Session type: Panel
- Track: Legal & Advocacy
- Language: en
The open science and Wikimedia communities share the common goal of developing high quality openly available content, yet collaborations between the movements have been limited. This workshop will focus on building connections between the communities, and will begin with a brief introduction to open science, followed by a presentation of different barriers that exist for open science, and examples from different parts of the world. It will then provide a structure for looking at how Wikimedians can support the development of open science policies and practices. Finally, the workshop will discuss coordinated efforts for national and regional collaborations.
Description
editThis workshop aims to explore both shared goals and missions between the Wikimedia and open science movements and possibilities for synergies between the two, in particular in supporting each other to achieve the goal of wider access to knowledge. It looks to explore, in turn, the key issues facing the open science movement and how these mirror onto (or contrast with) those affecting Wikimedians in their work, and then the particular policy challenges that are often faced. The workshop will also explore the specific challenges faced by those in the Global South to support the development of equitable access to research. On the basis of this evidence, the session will then look to bring forward positive examples of how Wikimedians and open science/open access advocates can work together in the advocacy space. Possible areas of focus include work around promoting more open licensing of academic outputs and building a culture of sharing in general, efforts to address contractual practices that close knowledge, as well as mandatory collective licensing practices.
Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWWUXW1O3Q4&list=PLhV3K_DS5YfJ1xyY0LNDNX3RKyRQEXOdB&t=2862
- How does your session relate to the event theme, Collaboration of the Open?
The session will look at how the Open Science and Wikimedia communities can strengthen their collaborations.
- What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
Average knowledge about Wikimedia projects or activities
- Etherpad link
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WM2024_Day3_Istanbul-_Room_10
Resources
editSpeakers
edit- Melissa Hagemann
- Melissa has been a leader of the Access to Knowledge movement for over twenty years. She managed the Open Society Institute’s (now Open Society Foundations) work to define Open Access through the Budapest Open Access Initiative and went on to support the development of the global Open Access movement. To mark the 20th anniversary of the BOAI, she spearheaded the development of new recommendations which emphasize that Open Access is not an end in itself, but a means to further ends, above all, to the equity, quality, sustainability, and usability of research.
- Melissa served as a member of the WMF’s Advisory Board and WMF’s
- Selection Committee for Executive Director and Board of Trustees.
- Daniel Mietchen
- Biophysicist and data scientist working at the intersections between Wikimedia and research.
- Eric Luth
- I am Project Manager for Involvement and Advocacy at Wikimedia Sverige. In that capacity, I have recently worked primarily with international partnerships, such as with the UN agencies, and advocacy for the open movement at the national, European and international level. I have an M.A. in Comparative Literature, and live in Stockholm.
- Stephen Wyber
- Stephen is Director, External Affairs at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. In this role, he works with a team to build understanding of the role of libraries in achieving sustainable, inclusive development, as a basis for improved laws and policies, and successful partnerships