Open Science Network - Bielefeld University
OSN Semester Kick-off
Talk
Open Science aims to increase the benefits of scientific knowledge and research data for science and society.
At the beginning of each semester, the Open Science Network at Bielefeld University invites you to a Semester Kickoff. The event will be held in English and will provide the opportunity to get to know the various active Open Science initiatives at Bielefeld University and to exchange and network with other interested people.
The Semester Kickoff of the Winter Semester 2022 took place online on 24 October 2022. Peter Kraker, founder and chairman of Open Knowledge Maps, talked about the role of Open Discovery Infrastructures.
#DontLeaveItToGoogle: How the Open Discovery Infrastructure Enables Innovation in Academic Search
The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered an explosion of knowledge, with more than 750,000 papers published so far. At one point in 2020, scientific output on the topic was doubling every 20 days. Mainstream academic search engines such as Google Scholar are not built for such a situation. They work well if you know what you are looking for. But for anyone diving into an unknown field, it can take weeks, even months, to identify the most important topics, publication venues and authors. In the shadows of these giants, however, an alternative discovery infrastructure has been created, built on thousands of public and private archives, repositories and aggregators, and championed by libraries, non-profit organisations and open-source software developers. In my talk, I will show how this open discovery infrastructure has become the strongest driver of innovation in academic search, enabling the quick development of a variety of discovery tools during the pandemic. Specific consideration will be given to a crucial issue of the open discovery infrastructure, which is that most open systems are not sustainably funded.