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Big Open Science Podcast

Big Open Science Podcast

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 The Big Open Science Podcast (BigOS) focuses on the topic of Open Science within the context of the humanities and social sciences (SSH). It explores the theoretical, practical, and infrastructural aspects of Open Science, addressing key questions such as its ethical foundations, its global and institutional practices, or open research infrastructures.

Content includes: research findings, case studies, interviews with experts, and reflections on workshops and study visits conducted as part of the Centre of Digital Humanities’s projects.

The primary objective of the podcast is to disseminate the findings of the SCIROS project to both academia and the broader scientific community.Copyright SCIROS Science
Episodes
  • Serving Open Humanities Since 2001 – A Conversation with Pierre Mounier

    Serving Open Humanities Since 2001 – A Conversation with Pierre Mounier
    Dec 29 2025
    Serving Open Humanities since 2001 – A Conversation with Pierre Mounier

    In this episode, we sit down with Pierre Mounier, a pioneer of the Open Science movement, to discuss the evolution of digital publishing over the last 25 years. From early experiments in 2001 to the creation of major infrastructures like OpenEdition and OPERAS in recent years, they explore how the landscape of scholarly communication has transformed.

    Pierre shares his perspective on building European federations, the "scaling small" philosophy, and why the Diamond Open Access model is crucial for the future of research.

    🎙️ What’s in this episode?

    ✅ The Journey: Pierre’s path from 2001 to building national platforms.

    ✅ European Scale: The story of OPERAS and cross-border cooperation.

    ✅ Diamond OA: Promoting community-owned, non-commercial publishing.

    ✅ The Future: Why researchers must "take back control" of scientific communication.

    Join us for this insightful conversation on the past and future of Open Science!

    📢 Follow SCIROS for more insights: sciros.hypotheses.org

    📌 Funding: Supported by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) under the Strategic Partnership Programme.

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    52 mins
  • Linked Open Culture: How Wikimedia Bridges Art, Research, and Open Science

    Linked Open Culture: How Wikimedia Bridges Art, Research, and Open Science
    Dec 9 2025
    In this Vienna-recorded episode, hosts Marta and Gabi talk with Dr. Kasia Makowska (Wikimedia Polska) about how Wikimedia projects — especially Wikidata — are transforming open cultural data and supporting research in the humanities and arts.

    Continuing our focus on Open Science practices within the SCIROS project, we explore how Wikidata’s structured, multilingual knowledge base helps researchers connect artworks, collections, and institutions worldwide. Kasia discusses how Wikimedia supports FAIR data principles, what makes community-driven infrastructures sustainable, and why multilingual open data is essential for inclusive knowledge sharing.

    💡 Highlights:
    • How Wikidata contributes to Open Science in SSH
    • GLAM–Wikimedia collaborations and open culture initiatives
    • The global “Sum of All Paintings” project
    • Multilingual data and decentralizing knowledge
    • Practical advice for researchers and curators opening their data

    🎧 The Big Open Science Podcast continues to explore how openness shapes research workflows, infrastructures, and innovation across the humanities and social sciences.

    Core resources
    • Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org
    • WikiProject Sum of All Paintings: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings
    • Scolia (Wikidata scholarly profiles): https://scolia.toolforge.org
    • Wikimedia Projects blog post on Wikidata and GLAM: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2016/08/23/wikidata-glam/
    • Wikimedia Polska: https://pl.wikimedia.org
    • GLAM-Wiki Poland: https://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
    Events & learning
    • Webinar “Wikidata from a research perspective” (Dec 11) – scientific webinar on using Wikidata in research:
      https://www.facebook.com/events/1488540905770149
    • Conference Open Knowledge: Wikimedia & Research – research, open data, and Wikimedia infrastructures:

      Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaPolska/posts/pfbid02G5gSQVXAgojoKwzG8CKdqjZdgdyFNVt9UUWFbgShXLs3mnqnyrjsw2RYvCA8yaEwl

      LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wikimedia-polska_wikimediapolska-openknowledge-openscience-activity-7400069691723091968-McUN

    Episode transcript: https://sciros.hypotheses.org/1832
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    26 mins
  • What If Research Evaluation Supported Openness? Reflections from a Collaborative Workshop #RESSH2025

    What If Research Evaluation Supported Openness? Reflections from a Collaborative Workshop #RESSH2025
    Aug 4 2025
    This episode of BIG OS – the Big Open Science Podcast, features a recording from the workshop “Reforming Research Evaluation in SSH: Embracing Open Science for Diversity, Interdisciplinarity and Inclusivity,” held at RESSH 2025 conference in Helsinki.

    The workshop examined systemic limitations in current evaluation systems and explored how reform efforts—particularly those led by CoARA and the Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism—can align research assessment with the core principles of Open Science: transparency, accessibility, and inclusivity.

    Through a participatory group exercise based on the Evaluation Reform Blueprint, participants representing key stakeholder groups—researchers, funders and evaluators, librarians, publishers, and OS advocates—co-designed actionable, stakeholder-informed strategies for change.

    All referenced materials, including blog posts and templates, are available below:

    SCIROS blog: https://sciros.hypotheses.org/

    OPERAS EU blogpost with original workshop methodology and materials: https://operas.hypotheses.org/7395

    Zenodo upload including the key documents to prepare a similar workshop: https://zenodo.org/records/11669021

    Episode transcript: https://sciros.hypotheses.org/1128
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    28 mins
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