parthenos training - macro level issues

PARTHENOS-project.eu

Macro-level Issues

ESU Leipzig, 2016

Dr Jennifer Edmond

Trinity College Dublin


What does it all mean?

Facility

Services

Tools

“A view that is experiment based … laboratory-based” – Franco Niccolucci



KnowledgeServices/Tools (Data

Layer, EU specific focus for Humanities Ris?)

Services/Tools (Software Layer)

People

Infrastructure (Facility)



Train

Share

Mentor

Curate

Prepare

Federate

Provide

Adapt

Create

Mentor

Introduce

Inspire

Scale,Reuse, Hybridity, Durability



Developers

Cultural HeritageEnd Users

User

Contributor

Creator



Developers


User:- How do I get past the ‘chicken and

egg’ problem- What is an RI?- How can I access RIs and their

services?- How can the help me do my work

more efficiently?- What can I learn from and through

them?



Developers


Contributor:- How can I reuse and build

sustainably?- How can I incorporate users, data,

audiences more effectively into my work?

- How can I connect with a community that may have similar goals and useful knowledge?



Developers


Creator:- How can I provide a support layer at

scale? - How can I deepen my understanding of

my users, stakeholders and audiences?- What is the balance I need of tools/

services, knowledge/people, data and networks?

- How can reuse the work of others and ensure sustainability and interoperability of my own work?

- Where can I find peers and information- How can I shape the policy

environment around me?


Concerns about Infrastructure

Infrastructure consolidates access to funding (=power), therefore

exacerbates known sources of friction in DH

creates perverse incentives (S. Anderson, IJHAC 2013)

can be seen as a site for exacerbated gender inequality

(Nowiskie/Posner),

post-colonial divides (McPherson),

and labour relations (McCarty, infrastructure as Europe’s #alt-Ac?)

Infrastructure is seen as an intermediary in the developing European Open

Science policy initiative, but

we can’t mandate what institutions value

we can’t mandate what CHIs will allow us to share

we can’t always serve researchers and citizens on a limited budget…


A Word on Careers

The North American ‘#alt-ac’ movement has had no real EU equivalent

There is, however, a more ‘top down’ equivalent in the support for research

careers in infrastructures

Infrastructure definitions rely on people and their knowledge

Both the the Digital Agenda and the Open Science Cloud call for huge

investments in human capital

Are projects like RITrain and Edison the answers, however?

How can we make infrastructure work different and rewarding in its own

right, not as a second class alternative (see reports of LERU et al)?

Knorr Cetina’s ‘object’ versus ‘social’ orientations

Epistemic agency

Psychological contracts versus Public Service contracts


HRB (Ireland) Career Path


Open Science and the Open Science Policy Platform

The five lines of potential policy actions are:1. Fostering and creating incentives for Open Science, by including open science in higher education programmes, identifying good examples and best practices, and extending the input of knowledge producers in a more open science environment (including citizen science). It is also about guaranteeing the quality, impact and research integrity of (open) science;2. Removing barriers for Open Science, which implies among other a review of researchers' careers with a view on creating incentives and awarding researchers for engagement with Open Science; address legal constraints and uncertainties;3. Mainstreaming and further promoting open access policies to research data and publications and wherever possible to proceed to open scholarly commons ranging from open scientific discovery and analysis to open research assessment, outreach and publication;4. Developing research infrastructures for Open Science, to improve data storage, access and governance, develop a common framework for research data including a European Open Science Cloud; and,5. Embedding Open Science in society as a socio-economic driver, whereby Open Science becomes instrumental in making science more responsive to societal and economic expectations, notably by motivating knowledge coalitions of stakeholders to address the grand societal challenges.


Open Science and the Open Science Policy Platform

To make things more concrete, there are eight policy ambitions that need to be addressed in line with these five broad action lines:

1. FAIR open data2. European Open Science Cloud3. altmetrics4. new business models for scholarly communication5. rewards6. research integrity7. open science skills8. Citizen Science

http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618

http://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=open-science-cloud


The European Open Science Cloud


But hope as well?

Can RIs contribute to the democratisation of digital methods, rather than

become new structures for exclusion?

Can RIs support debate as well as development?

Can RIs become a place where the European #alt ac can consolidate a

voice and build the career opportunities that are otherwise lacking?

Can we use the reach and breadth of research infrastructure to advocate

for our disciplines, our methods, and for the interests of our longstanding

partners, the CHIs?

Can RIs give humanists not just access to tools, services and knowledge

but a unified voice?


Question Time…

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Jennifer Edmond

Trinity College Dublin

[email protected] www.tcd.ie

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