Tag: Open Science

  • Fellowship Free Knowledge

    I am happy to announce that I got accepted for being a fellow for free knowledge and open science (Fellow-Programm Freies Wissen), which is sponsored by Wikimedia Foundation. The program includes some money as well as mentoring and opportunities to network with other people, which are enthusiastic about open science. Due to corona, the event…

  • Collaborative open analysis in a qualitative research environment

    Together with some collegues I recently published a paper about the use of a vritual research environment for teaching the qualitative method objective hermeneutics. It is a follow-up of the paper SMW Based VRE for Addressing Multi-Layered Data Analysis my collegues did in 2017 where they presented the virtual reserach environment (VRE) and anticipated use…

  • Sustainable Software

    When we are talking about free software, the point is often that this is more sustainable than proprietary software because everyone can edit the code and even if your company goes bankrupt someone else can take over and go on coding. Actually, in many open source projects there is only one person doing most of…

  • Open Science Barcamp 2020

    This year, I attended again the barcamp open science in Berlin. Due to corona, there were less people than last year, but the experience was still really cool. It is always nice to meet people and chat about open science. In all sessions there were pads where people could add their notes. There are also…

  • FAIR Software

    Some of you might have heard about the FAIR principles for data. Since the paper was published in 2015, it became state of the art in data sharing. But data is not all that is needed to make research more transparent. Software is another very important part. Tackling this topic, the German National Library of…