#SRDD2018 Programme

Type

Presentation

Time

16:30-17:00

Title

Opening Science in a Data-Driven World

Speaker

Rok Roškar

Abstract

Benefits from open science are numerous and various. The most obvious are transparency and verifiability. They are attributes that science requires from researchers who make a scientific claim public. Today, with the increasing volume and complexity of data, sharing scientific results in the form of an article is not sufficient to verify the validity of this claim. Open science in general promotes incentives, tools and best practices to share scientific results beyond the traditional publication format. In the light of the “reproducibility crisis” in various fields, it has become obvious to many scientists that transparency is one way to alleviate the risk of erroneous – or fraudulent – conclusions. Providing researchers with the skills and tools to properly document their studies will ultimately foster trust and excellence in science. Researchers must be able to trust published research even when the data is not made public. There is therefore a critical need for tools enabling a trusted, verifiable science at all times.