exploring open academia
Continuing our exploration into the life of Aaron Swartz, Epistemicast has been lucky enough to grab an interview with Aaron’s friend, early couch-surfing host and tireless fellow activist Cory Doctorow. A New York Times best-selling author, we explored Cory’s own views on the world of Free and Open Source Software, Open Access and Open Academia, as well as getting some touching personal insights...
Challenging Publishing Monopolies and Opening Up Scholarly Communication Epistemicast explores the future of the digital Academic Repository, its growing role at the centre of Open Science and broader Open Academia, and its potential to help facilitate new, more open alternatives to the closed monopolies of traditional academic publishing. In conversation with the renowned research data...
In this episode, we discuss the InSituEx research agenda, and how Simon is developing this as an open source toolkit allowing others to explore, adapt and evolve the digital multispective experience developed in Campus Medius. We get to the centre of Simon’s current thinking and enter into a discussion on how art, literature, the humanities, and the study of these subjects has so much more to...
In this next series of interviews, Epistemicast speaks with Simon Ganahl (Mag. Dr. Dr. phil.), about his pioneering work in the realm of Digital Humanities. We explore how, in contrast to more traditional approaches that seek to bring more digital, scientific and numerical methods to the humanities, Simon is championing humanities students and scholars to use their knowledge and understanding of...
This short edition of Epistemicast revisits our archive to highlight parts of a previous interview with Associate Professor Devan Ray Donaldson around his 2022 paper on data sharing and research data management in the Journal Nature. In particular, we thought it was well worth redrawing attention to the Rubric which Donaldson and his colleague Joshua Koepke developed to help research scientists...
In this episode of Epistemicast we dive into the inspirational legacy of Aaron Swartz. A visionary entrepreneur who co-founded and sold Reddit by age 20, Swartz’s true passion lay in harnessing the web’s potential for humanity. Among his many contributions to open source and free culture, he was instrumental in shaping the technical framework for Creative Commons and the RSS web feed...
There are growing calls that data from publicly funded research should be publicly available. And, while many academic institutions across the globe now mandate data sharing as part of a data management plan, there is often a gap in the training available to researchers. Our guest on this edition of Epistemicast has sought to analyse and address this challenge. In an inspirational paper in the...
This episode of Epistemicast explores the challenges of digitizing information in museums and science institutions. We learn from Hanna’s pragmatic approach and her choice to use an open source repository as a solution to the problem of data being locked away and inaccessible to others. She explains how the repository now, not only serves as a tool for in-house collections, but also as a much...
The inner workings of organisations from lean tech start-ups, to government departments and the largest global corporations are all being abstracted into open, standardised and easily accessible Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Shielded from the complexities of the underlying IT systems, the API economy is giving birth to a new breed of online entrepreneurship. How do we get things...
exploring open academia