A few months ago, I started the #DontLeaveItToGoogle campaign on Twitter to protest Google Dataset Search and to urge funders to provide the means for creating open alternatives. The original tweet has since been retweeted and liked hundreds of times and reached 50K impressions. As I had hoped, it also started a widespread discussion about …
Illuminating Dark Knowledge
Image: LA at Night, Wikimedia, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/LA_at_night.jpg Without being able to build on top of existing — search tools and indexes — innovation in search engines is being held back and letting down researchers and the public. The Open Access and Open Science movement that have worked hard to make free hundreds of thousands of publications, but at …
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#DontLeaveItToGoogle
As you may have heard, Google is building a search engine for datasets. This will mean yet another proprietary index on top of our own data that nobody can reuse – and another inferior list-based interface that will be pushed onto scientists by Google’s sheer market dominance. At the same time, there is no funding …
WikidataCon: Giving more people more access to more knowledge
At the end of October, I attended WikidataCon 2017 in Berlin. My participation was made possible thanks to the generous support of Wikimedia Austria, so a big shout-out to the great team here in Vienna! 🎉 I’ve been intrigued by the project for quite some time, and I wanted to learn more as to how …
Open Science, All The Way: Open Knowledge Maps
Note: this post first appeared on ZBW Mediatalk and has been updated to reflect the latest update of Open Knowledge Maps. Science and research are more productive than ever. Every year, around 2.5 million research articles are published, and counting. A lot of research information is openly available: thanks to the open access movement, we …
Envisioning future scholarly communication: The Vienna Principles
Note: this post was written in collaboration with Katja Mayer and first appeared on the F1000 Blog. In June 2016, we published the Vienna Principles: A Vision for Scholarly Communication in the 21st Century. The set of twelve principles describes the visions and foundations of a scholarly communication system that is based on the notion of …
Visualize a research topic based on 100 million scientific documents
We have now connected Open Knowledge Maps to one of the largest academic search engines in the world: BASE. This means, you are able to visualize a research topic from 100+ million documents. And for the first time, you can search within different types of resources, including datasets and software. I would like to thank …
Going Beyond Open: The Making of the Vienna Principles
Note: This post originally appeared on the OpenAIRE blog on 22 June 2016. Last week, we published the Vienna Principles: A Vision for Scholarly Communication in the 21st Century. The announcement of the publication has been widely shared. In this contribution, I’d like to provide more context on how the principles came about – starting …
It’s Time to Change the Way We Discover Research
On May 1, I submitted an application for a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowhip. Started by Mark Shuttleworth in 2001, the Shuttleworth Foundation has enabled many amazing open knowledge initatives, including ContentMine (Peter Murray-Rust) and Hypothes.is (Dan Whaley). The foundation has expressed the following vision: “We would like to live in an open knowledge society with limitless …
Open Science Prize Proposal Submitted
A little longer than a month ago, I posted an Open Call for Collaborators for an Open Science Prize Proposal on Discovery on this blog and to various open science mailing lists. The call has been very fruitful and I am happy to announce that we have submitted a proposal. In the spirit of open …
