Open Science

Opening Latin America (OpenCon, REBI, Aprender3C)

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In Latin America there are several projects, thinkers and makers with twenty years of experience working towards the opening of knowledge and information. We also count-in the areas of government, education, science and technology-with legislation, mandates and declarations that favour, suggest and oblige to make available to citizens, information and knowledge financed by public funds. Despite this, the tensions between actors and the economic, technological and social challenges are renewed and/or maintained to increase the adoption of open practices in government, education and science.

We find it essential to know and analyse the contemporary regional scenario of access, education and open data; And in the same way, visualize the concepts, debates and tensions in force in these areas. In search of the empowerment of thought and the construction of knowledge with a Latin American perspective, we organize this series of webinars on the way to the OpenCon LatAm 2018.

The main goal is to forge new connections between organizations in each of our countries to coordinate global production, analysis and promotion efforts. In addition, we hope that the Webinar series and the event will lead to cross-border collaborations that will benefit the government, education, science and technology sectors of each country and increase the visibility of Latin American research.

Objectives:

• Introduce the concepts and axes of work inherent to open access, open education, open data, open hardware and open science.
• Contextualize the state these areas from international policies, plans and challenges.
• To know the state of situation on the application and experimentation of these four axes in countries of the region.
• Identify current discussions regarding open access, open education, open data, open hardware and open science.

Sessions:

Conversation about Big data and open data (citrate; UMET CIECTI; Gino Germani Research Institute; Aprender3C; Knowledge, management and training)

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Among several academic and research institutions in the area of social sciences we organize a day to facilitate a discussion and begin to design a common work agenda. The objective is to know lines of work and research, proposals on good practices, realities and utopias on the use, re-use and management of data (of government, IoT, industry, scientists, etc.). We are looking to start designing a work agenda for the social sciences in universities and research centers.

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Digital Humanities Day in #Aprender3C #DayOfDH2016

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What are digital Humanities (HD)/Digital Humanities (DH)?

Digital Humanities are an area of research, teaching and creation in which the humanities and Computer Science (formerly known in the Hispanic environment as humanistic informatics) converge. Digital humanities encompass numerous and varied objects of study, from the design and maintenance of digital collections to the analysis of cultural data on a large scale. Often known by the abbreviation HD or DH (in English), today digital humanities include both materials and heritage digitized as artifacts originated in the digital media and combine the methodologies of the Traditional humanistic disciplines (history, philosophy, philology, linguistics, History of art, archaeology, music and Cultural studies) and social sciences with the use of computer tools (databases, data visualization, Information retrieval, data mining, statistics) and digital editing.

Who organizes the day of the HD 2016?

The day of the Digital Humanities is a project of CenterNet sponsored in its edition 2015-2016 by the Laboratory of Innovation in Digital humanities of the UNED (LINHD), which seeks to reflect the one day in the life of those who work or are interested in the humanities Digital. It is an event that every year, from different points of the planet, seeks to document, through text and images, the activities of digital humanists, researchers, students, stakeholders, inside and outside the academy.

La finalidad del proyecto es unir las contribuciones de los participantes en un único recurso que apunta a contestar la pregunta “¿Qué hacen los humanistas digitales?” en www.dayofdh2016.uned.es

From the collaborative knowledge Community Aprender3C, we decided to join #DayOfDH2016 to co-organize together with the Argentine Center for Scientific and Technological information (CAICYT-CONICET), to the Laboratory of Innovation in Humanities Digital (LINHD-UNED) and the Argentine Association of Digital Humanities (AAHD) a series of short webcast on the subject. The intention was to give space to researchers, teachers and digital humanists to relate their projects, analyses and research on this new field.

The webcast series consists of:

• Good practices in digital humanities by Dr. Moana of the Riande River.
• Digital teaching and research practices and methods. MHeDI Project Survey (CAICYT-CONICET) by Virginia Brussa and Paola Bongiovani.
• EVILINHD: Virtual Research Environment by Dr. Elena González Blanco.
• YouTube: Sewing times: The presence and absence of events by Estela Dominguez Halpern.
• Online teachers: Teacher training in a virtual practice community by Silvia Cecilia Enríquez.

In each webcast you will find a summary of the talk, a brief curriculum of the specialist, the recording and the presentation used.

During 2015, we also participated in the #DayOfDH2015 we shared two introductory and very interesting webinars on the subject. They are ideal to be introduced in this new field:

• Mela Bosch. Digital Humanities, utilitarianism and creativity
• Riande River moaning. Digital Humanities, the shaping of an academic field

We hope to contribute to grow and give visibility to the field of digital humanities in Latin America. I hope you find it interesting. We have only one consultation , are you a Digital humanist? Aprender3C Team

The process of digitizing scientific academic journals in CSyH in Argentina: Situation and Perspectives (Aprender3C).

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On Tuesday, September 6th, 2016, we had a new meeting in the collaborative knowledge community of Learning 3c, this time the talk deal on “the process of digitizing scientific academic journals in the field of science Social and humanities in Argentina: Situation and Perspectives “ by the graduate and Professor Andrés Vuotto (UNMdP, Argentina).

Initially analyzed the current reality of the sector of scientific publications corresponding to the area social sciences and humanities in Argentina, and its contrast with the regional and international context; Establishing a direct relationship with the different existing evaluation models. Then, through an exploratory-descriptive study, according to selected indicators, the publications offered in digital format belonging to the public universities of Argentina are evaluated.

By way of conclusion will develop the results describing the weaknesses and absences of the sector, allowing to reflect on the necessary approaches that channel a process of improvement. Finally, we will propose possible lines of action to continue and deepen this research.

The specialist Andrés Vuotto, is adjunct professor of the Department of Information Science of the National University of Mar del Plata (Argentina), working in the areas of information technology and knowledge organization. Since graduating, he has been involved in the study of the application of new information technologies for representation, analysis and documentary management; As well as for the development and improvement of evaluation systems of the research activity.

The challenges of open Education in Latin America (Aprender3C, Argentine Network of Open Education [AREA], OpenCon LatAm)

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Open Education is a collective term used to refer to many practices and activities that have at their core, both openness and education. First of all, open education is about eliminating barriers to education. This can be done by eliminating entry requirements, such as the Open University (UK), or by making content and data freely and legally available for reuse. However, it also reflects other cultural changes, such as the movement to open learning methods and practices, which sees how the traditional roles of teacher and pupil are blurred and/or eliminated.

Open education priorities and practices change continually, many aspects generate debate (such as content licensing, open definitions, incentive for participation, etc.) while other aspects are less controversial, such as the need Technology to support learning, using data to support educational initiatives in the developing world, etc. With “Open education” we are not only talking about content, data or resources; Openness is part of a broader change and movement towards equality and collaboration. (Open Education Handbook, 2016)

We find it essential to visualize the concepts, debates and tensions that occur in the field of open education in the region. Knowing the status of the EA in some Latin American countries and discussing some points on the open education action Plan 2017. For all these reasons and in search of the empowerment of colleagues in our region, from the community of learning 3c together with AREA (Argentine network of Open Education) We organize a new series of webinars called “the challenges of open education in Latin America “.

Objectives:

• Introduce the inherent concepts and axes of work of open Education (OE): Open Educational resources, MOOC’s, open data and other opening practices
• Contextualize the status of EA/OE from international policies, plans and challenges. To integrate to the discussion the location of the Plan of Action 2017.
• To know the state of situation on the application and experimentation of EA in countries of the region.
• Identify thematic debates inherent to the action Plan for our territories: EA and Equity, EA and licenses, EA and digital competencies.

Sessions:

Beyond Wikipedia: the Wiki projects in cultural key (Aprender3C, Wikimedia Argentina)

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17 years ago there was a momentous event for free and digital culture, the creation of a free encyclopedia, polyglot and edited in a collaborative way. On January 15th, 2001, the WIKIPEDIA was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. It ended up becoming the largest and most popular Internet consultation work, it is among the 10 most popular websites in the world. It has more than 46 million of articles in 288 languages, they were written jointly by volunteers from around the world, which makes a total of more than 2 billion editions.

Wikipedia generates passion and rejection, we live it daily in schools, colleges and universities. We believe that we should know an idea or project before criticizing it, so this is an opportunity to do so. From learning 3c together with Wikimedia Argentina, we decided to generate a series of webinars on Wikimedia, its projects, its culture and impact on education, culture and society in general. Among other things, to provide information, examples and use cases to stimulate critical thinking among our library community (students, teachers and professionals) and in our user communities.

It adds that Wikimedia Argentina organizes the campaign #1bib1ref-from May 15 to June 5, 2018-, it invites the library communities and information managers to add references within the articles of Wikipedia in Spanish.

For all these reasons and in search of the empowerment of the bibliotecari@s of our region we organize together with Wikimedia Argentina and the community LEARN 3C A new series of webinars called “Beyond Wikipedia: the Wiki projects in cultural key”.

Objectives:

• Support the Wikimedia #1bib1ref campaign aimed at librarians and information managers
• Disseminate Wikipedia’s sibling projects, such as Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikisource, etc.
• To know WIkimedia projects, studies, applications and uses that impact the educational, cultural and scientific fields.

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Transparency and good practices in open access journals (DOAJ, Aprender3C)

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The directory of open Access journals (DOAJ) and the collaborative knowledge Community learn 3c are pleased to announce the launch of a series of webinars (online chats), aimed at publishers, professionals from the Information and others interested in improving the quality of their scientific journals in open access.

Objectives:

• Disseminate good practices to improve the quality of open access journals in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Support Latin American publishers to make a solid application to enter DOAJ.
• To stimulate, enrich and strengthen a community of practice and collaboration between publishers and information professionals.

Sessions:

Panama Declaration of Open Science. Live document open to comments.

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More than 30 scholars, activists and open science practitioners from the region responded to the open invitation by Fundación Karisma, the Center for Internet and Society of the University of Rosario (ISUR) and the Information System for biodiversity (SiB Colombia) To start a dialogue about how we want the Open science policies of Latin America to be.

A previous work and a meeting on October 22 (2018) in Panama City, which took place as a parallel event to the Open forum of Sciences of Latin America and the Caribbean 2018, allowed this group to agree on a series of common points to open the debate and be Plas Mó in a living document titled Panama Declaration of Open Science.

This live document is published for comments and suggestions from other stakeholders in the region who want to contribute and support this process until December 15, 2018 and will open to accessions after January 10, 2019.

Learn about the Panama Declaration on open Science and help us build this position!

Open Science Manifesto

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At OCSDNet we participated in a participatory consultation with scientists, international development actors and activists from 26 countries in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia to understand the core values of open science in development . What we learned is that there is no one way to do open science. This requires constant negotiation and reflection, and the process always differs depending on the context. But we also find a set of seven core values and principles in their vision for a more inclusive open science for development. This video describes the 7 principles that we believe are a more open and inclusive science in development: https://youtu.be/Y1X0xtB_JcY

See the Open Science Manifesto: https://ocsdnet.org/manifesto/open-science-manifesto/

Projects of Interest

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About Open Science

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Open Science fosters a place openly and collaboratively for the scientific communication process in each of its stages, both in regard to work processes and tools and intermediate and final results of the research process. With this, collaboration with other stakeholders that generate knowledge is encouraged, beyond the scholarly scope, such as citizenry and government. From Open Science AmeliCA encourages researchers, editors and librarians to use methodologies, tools and platforms that facilitate the opening of research processes, allow reuse, redistribution and reproduction of research (methods, protocols, data, etc.) encouraging multidisciplinary dialogues to integrate the different stakeholders of the research process.

About AmeliCA

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Ameli, open Knowledge for Latin America and the Global South (AmeliCA) is an initiative set up by various institutions with a common agenda. This is a new strategy configuration, in response to the international, regional, national and institutional context, which seeks a collaborative, sustainable, protected and non-commercial open access solution for Latin America and the Global South.