Open Science Days 2017: Open Research Data

The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) cordially invites you to participate in the Open Science Days 2017.

The event will take place at the Harnack House in Berlin and is going to extend over one and a half days (October 16/17).

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For the upcoming event we chose to focus on a topic which has been immensely popular among information specialists in recent years: Open Research Data.

Since this issue has been widely discussed at numerous conferences or workshops dealing with Open Science for quite some time now, one could think, that there’s not much new to learn? We would like to review and take stock of the preliminary development and discussion so far:

– Does the practice of Open Research Data deliver significant benefits for researchers at all?
– Is there even any remarkable re-use of the existing amount of data already available on various platforms today?
– Which lessons can be drawn from success stories as well as from stories of ‘failure’?
– Do we see that the topic has truly arrived in regular research and teaching?

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