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!

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    📌 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
  • Open Science and Research Assessment in SSH

    Open Science and Research Assessment in SSH
    Jul 15 2025
    In this episode of the podcast, we delve into the world of Open Science and research assessment within the Social Sciences and Humanities, focusing on the RESSH 2025 Conference hosted by the European Network for Research Evaluation in the SSH in Helsinki, Finland. Throughout the episode, we explore pivotal discussions from keynotes, panels, and workshops where researchers and policy experts grappled with a central question: How can research assessment practices in SSH align more closely with the values and principles of Open Science?

    Our journey begins with conversations with experts who presented their groundbreaking work at the conference, sharing their experiences, studies, and critical insights.

    Later in the episode, we transport you to the inaugural panel of the conference, featuring the SCIROS Project. Here, you'll encounter two enlightening presentations:
    1. "Advancing Open Science in SSH: Rethinking Research Assessment through the SCIROS Project" - https://zenodo.org/records/17640816
    2. "Open Humanities Manifesto – Reforming Research Assessment in the Humanities" - https://zenodo.org/records/17140929
    Guests:
    • Marc Vanholsbeeck
    • Lai Ma
    • Joel Alhuay-Quispe
    Materials from the episode:
    • https://www.belspo.be/belspo/EUBelgium24/2024050607_StrongerTogether_en.stm
    • https://sciros.hypotheses.org/409
    • vastuullinentiede.fi/sites/default/files/2025-05/RESSH2025_Program.pdf
    📌 This project is supported by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) under the Strategic Partnership Programme.

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    Episode trancript: https://sciros.hypotheses.org/870
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    46 mins
  • Sustaining and Innovating Open Research Infrastructures. SCIROS Workshop @UniLu

    Sustaining and Innovating Open Research Infrastructures. SCIROS Workshop @UniLu
    Jun 13 2025
    🔊 In the third episode of the Big Open Science podcast, Tomasz Umerle speaks with Tugce Karatas and Sofia Papastamkou from C2DH, University of Luxembourg. The discussion covers challenges in sustaining and innovating open research infrastructure, particularly within the social sciences and humanities (SSH). Topics include data preservation, ethics, institutional support, accessibility, and interoperability. AI emerges as a key challenge for all scientific stakeholders in current scholarly communication.

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

    📌 This project is supported by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) under the Strategic Partnership Programme.

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    Episode transcript: https://sciros.hypotheses.org/750
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    34 mins
  • Innovations and research infrastructures. The role of the OPERAS Innovation Lab

    Innovations and research infrastructures. The role of the OPERAS Innovation Lab
    May 5 2025
    In this episode of the Big Open Science Podcast, recorded during a study visit to the University of Luxembourg, we explore innovation in scholarly communication within the Social Sciences and Humanities. Joined by Sy Holsinger and Elena Sokolova from the OPERAS Innovation Lab, we discuss how the lab fosters sustainable, visible, and impactful open science practices. The conversation dives into strategies for long-term sustainability, community engagement, and upcoming initiatives shaping the future of open scholarly ecosystems in Europe.

    📌 This project is supported by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) under the Strategic Partnership Programme.

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    Episode transcript: https://sciros.hypotheses.org/735
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    18 mins
  • Open Science in SSH – The SCIROS Perspective

    Open Science in SSH – The SCIROS Perspective
    May 5 2025
    🔊 Welcome to the first episode of SCIROS TALKS!

    What is Open Science, and why does it matter for the Social Sciences and Humanities? In this inaugural episode, we introduce SCIROS – Strategic Collaboration for Interdisciplinary Research on Open Science in SSH, an international project led by the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN).Together with our expert guests, we explore the goals of SCIROS, the challenges and opportunities of Open Science, and the first steps we’ve taken since the project launched.

    🎙️ What’s in this episode?
    ✅ What is SCIROS and who is involved?
    ✅ Why Open Science in SSH?
    ✅ Key challenges and first project activities
    ✅ What’s next in the SCIROS journey?

    Join us as we kick off this exciting series and dive into the world of Open Science!

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

    📌 This project is supported by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) under the Strategic Partnership Programme.

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    Episode transcript: https://sciros.hypotheses.org/694
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    29 mins