How to integrate Open Science principles into the research cycle?
Open Science is about increasing the transparency, reproducibility, and reusability of research results. It touches upon data, software, infrastructure, Open Access to scientific papers and many other aspects relevant throughout the research process. However, for some reason (some people refer to the strong commercialization of scientific journals), Open Science used to be a niche topic and sharing research outputs was not the norm. Who hasn’t read about the infamous “We will share data upon request”? Fortunately, for more than a decade now, there has been a movement towards more openness; whether it’s the European Open Science Cloud, national initiatives like NFDI, or conferences pushing for more reproducibility like AGILE. UNESCO even released a whole Recommendation on Open Science a few years ago (see Fig. 1), which also considered societal aspects (e.g., Open engagement, Open dialogue) in addition to technical topics. Shortly afterwards, the Group on Earth Observation released the GEO Statement on Open Knowledge.