In this episode of the Big Open Science Podcast, recorded during a study visit at CSIL – Centre for Industrial Studies in Milan, we explore how the impact of Open Science can be understood, measured, and evaluated from a policy and economic perspective.

We speak with Louis Colnot about the PathOS project, a European initiative that developed analytical frameworks and tools to assess what Open Science delivers to research systems, society, and innovation. The conversation focuses on how methodologies such as Cost–Benefit Analysis can be adapted to capture the complex dynamics of Open Science ecosystems.

The episode also examines the application of these tools through concrete case studies, including RCAAP, Portugal’s national repository infrastructure. This example illustrates how Open Science practices can generate measurable effects in areas such as knowledge dissemination, collaboration, and economic efficiency.

Together, these insights show that evaluating Open Science requires not only technical indicators and policy frameworks, but also robust methodological approaches capable of capturing its broader societal and economic value.

🔗 Links mentioned in this episode

• CSIL – Centre for Industrial Studies
  https://www.csilmilano.com/
• PathOS project
  https://pathos-project.eu/
• RCAAP
  https://www.rcaap.pt/
• Cost–Benefit Analysis (CBA) methodology (European Commission guide)
  https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/studies/cba_guide.pdf 

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In this Big Open Science podcast episode, we speak with Silvia Milano and Paul Trauttmansdorff from the Technical University of Munich, who are co-creating the Ethical Data Initiative—a project dedicated to studying and improving research data governance across various academic disciplines. We explore their latest case studies and discuss how their work can help address the growing problem of distrust in science.

Read more about EDI: https://ethicaldatainitiative.org/

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In this Big Open Science podcast episode, we speak with Silvia Milano and Paul Trauttmansdorff from the Technical University of Munich, who are co-creating the Ethical Data Initiative—a project dedicated to studying and improving research data governance across various academic disciplines. We explore their latest case studies and discuss how their work can help address the growing problem of distrust in science.

Read more about EDI: https://ethicaldatainitiative.org/

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

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In this episode Piotr Wciślik talks to philosophers of science Sabina Leonelli and Richard Williams at the Technical University in Munich. Sabina is Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at the TUM and Richard works with Sabina on the ERC project Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments.

Together we discuss how philosophy of open science can help us address the problem of disinformation. We start by discussing in what ways the broader debate on disinformation in science is conducive to solving the problem and the ways in which it is not. How to distribute the responsibility for addressing disinformation fairly between governments, citizens, experts and intermediaries? How processes of information quality assessment inside and outside academia are entangled? Next, we sketch out an open science approach to disinformation. Open science makes complex processes of doing science more transparent and approachable, so that the public gets a more realistic, contextual understanding of where a particular piece of scientific information comes from. We finish by mapping the tensions that exist between the imperative of keeping science open and that of combating misinformation, and how to dissolve them through dialogue that is regular over time and comfortable to all parties involved.

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This episode is part of a series which explores the history and the present of open science infrastructures for humanities and social sciences in France through the prism of one of its premier institutions: OpenEdition. 

Piotr Wciślik and Magdalena Wnuk visited the OpenEdition headquarters in Marseille to talk to Simon Dumas Primbault, a theorist, historian and anthropologist of open science. Simon runs the OE Lab, OpenEdition’s unit whose mission is to study open science infrastructure from within.

Together we explore how the idea of research infrastructure emerged in history and how it was translated into the domain of humanities and social sciences.

That serves as a context for discussing the evolution of OpenEdition, which is a story of an uneasy process of fitting a social movement into an infrastructural framework.

As we learn from the last part of the episode, the challenge is to design a governance model that serves the needs of national research institutions in France, while  preserving the ethos of a researcher-led social movement.

If you like this episode, you should also listen to our conversation with Pierre Mounier [https://www.spreaker.com/episode/serving-open-humanities-since-2001-a-conversation-with-pierre-mounier--69242474], a prominent figure of the French open science movement, and a reportage about OpenEdition we will release later in 2026. 

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Episode transcript: https://sciros.hypotheses.org/2501

• How can one of Europe’s oldest universities become a leader in Open Science?
• In this episode of the Big Open Science Podcast, recorded at the University of Coimbra in Portugal, we explore how a historic institution is transforming its research culture and embedding openness into its long-term strategy.
• Our guests are Licínia Ferreira from the University of Coimbra’s Open Science Office and Lorena Caliman, Community Manager of OPERAS-PT and co-founder of the Open Science Community Portugal. Together they explain how open science is implemented in practice — from institutional repositories and Diamond Open Access publishing to citizen science initiatives, research data management, and community-driven collaboration.
• We also hear from Professor Delfim Ferreira Leão, Vice-Rector for Culture, Communication and Open Science, who shares why Coimbra decided to place open science at the heart of its university mission and governance.
• The conversation reveals how institutional leadership, grassroots communities, and European research infrastructures such as OPERAS can work together to build a sustainable culture of openness. At the same time, our guests reflect on the real challenges researchers face today — including limited time, disciplinary differences, and the need to better integrate open science practices into academic careers and education.
• 🔗 Links mentioned in this episode
• University of Coimbra – Open Science

https://www.uc.pt/en/openscience/

Estudo Geral – University of Coimbra Repository
https://www.uc.pt/en/sibuc/Estudo_Geral 

Coimbra University Press
https://monographs.uc.pt/iuc 

GoTriple
https://gotriple.eu/

VERA
https://vera.operas-eu.org/

Mondaecus (OPERAS service)
https://operas-eu.org/services/mondaecus/

UNESCO Open Science
https://www.unesco.org/en/open-science

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Episode transcript: https://sciros.hypotheses.org/2407

In this episode of the Big Open Science Podcast, recorded during a study visit at the University of Coimbra, we explore how Open Science is being built through projects people and communities in Portugal.

We hear from the teams behind TREASURE, a project recognising open and reproducible research practices among early career researchers and ReData, Portugal’s national network for research data management and data stewardship. The episode also features Juanina Digital, an ambitious initiative opening the historic Joanina Library through large-scale digitisation and digital humanities infrastructures.

Together these conversations show that Open Science is not only about policies and technologies but about people collaboration and imagination shaping more open and inclusive research cultures.

🔗 Links mentioned in this episode
TREASURE – Recognising Open Research Practices
https://www.uc.pt/en/iii/treasure/

ReData – Portuguese Network for Research Data Management
https://redata.pt/

ReData Consortium at the University of Coimbra
https://www.uc.pt/en/openscience/news/re.data-consortium-kicks-off-research-data-management-network/

Juanina Digital – University of Coimbra
https://www.uc.pt/en/bguc/projects/digital-joanina-project/

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Episode transcript: https://sciros.hypotheses.org/2222

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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Episode transcript: https://sciros.hypotheses.org/2064

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

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