Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals, academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time, data sharing in research is attributed a vast potential for scientific progress. It allows the reproducibility of study results and the reuse of old data for new research questions. Based on a systematic review of 98 scholarly ...
Open Science is an umbrella term that encompasses a multitude of assumptions about the future of knowledge creation and dissemination. Based on a literature review, this paper aims at structuring the overall discourse by proposing five Open Science schools of thought: The infrastructure school (which is concerned with the technological architecture), the public school (which is concerned with the accessibility ...
Mit der Sekundäranalyse qualitativer Interviewdaten werden zahlreiche Potenziale verbunden, um bestehende Daten aus einem neuen inhaltlichen und theoretischen Blickwinkel betrachten zu können. Es gibt bislang noch wenige Anwendungsbeispiele, bei denen anhand einer konkreten Studie die im Forschungsprozess zu treffenden Entscheidungen und die Durchführungsschritte empirisch aufgezeigt wurden. Mit der ...
The authors introduce the GRASS GIS add-on module g.citation. The module extends the existing citationcapabilities of GRASS GIS, which until now only provide for automated citation of the software projectas a whole, authored by the GRASS Development Team, without reference to individual persons. Thefunctionalities of the new module enable individual code citation for each of the over 500 implementedfunctionalities, ...
This submission reports on the continuing efforts by OSGeo activists within the annual General Assembly gatherings of the European Geoscience Union (EGU). Starting as improvided splinter events, the format soon emerged both into dedicated topical sessions for Open Source within the EGU division of Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI), but also dedicated annual evening events (Townhalls). Further, ...