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Mapping the Accused Witches of Scotland in place and time

Ruby Imrie, Computer Science graduate and 'Witchfinder General' Wikidata Data Visualisation intern on importing and quality assuring the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft data (2003) into…

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Map of Accused Witches in Scotland - User Guide

A user guide to the map of accused witches in Scotland website, showing how to use all the new features and the different pages across the website. Research, explore and find out about the individual…

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Open Science: why, how and its recent developments: a seminar by Prof Frank Miedema

In this seminar, Prof Frank Miedema discusses the limitations in the current academic system of incentives, rewards, communication, and career progression, and how these compromise the openness…

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Open as a Prerequisite for Solving the Climate Crisis

Join this session to hear from organizations who are collaborating on projects and initiatives to profile the role of open in addressing the climate crisis. We will profile successes to date,…

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Museums, Media, Data & Gender: How to Make Images of Women More Visible on Wikimedia?

For this year’s Wikimania we are expanding on the themes of Collaboration of the Open through a GLAM and knowledge equity lens. We aim to establish a cross-community pathway to increase visual…

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From compliance to culture: How can we address the barriers that are preventing a culture of Open Research in relation to Open Monographs? - Tom Morley

With the introduction of UKRIs new policy on the 1st of January 2024 and the possibility of Open Access Monographs being mandated by REF2029, there is an increasing focus within the scholarly…

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Fostering training of research staff through Replicating Open Science Hardware MRI: A Southeast Asian Initiative - Tapas Kumar Mohanty

The Replicating Open Hardware Pulse Oximeter project in India, embodies the principles of open science and open hardware, aiming to address the scarcity of affordable scientific equipment hindering…

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Making iPSCs ‘FFAIR’ - Rachel Steeg

FAIR principles as applied to data are now well recognised as a pillar good science, but what about their application to cells? Since 2007, the use and broad adoption of induced pluripotent stem…

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Nurturing responsible data practices in creative industries R&D through applied ethics and open research practices - Nicola Osborne

Creative Informatics (2018-24) is a major £10m research project providing funding and support to enable individuals and organisations in the creative and cultural industries to explore how data…

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See one, do one, teach one: Teaching Open Research Skills for Data-Driven Innovation in Health and Social Care - Kasia Banas (Speaker)

With Brittany Blankinship, Sophie Marion de Proce, John Wilson As the Data-Driven Innovation Talent Team, we teach data and research skills to undergraduate, postgraduate and continuous…

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Humanities researchers’ perspectives towards scholarly communication practices - Dominic Hewett

To change research culture for the better, we need to understand researchers. Existing studies of the scholarly communication landscape in the humanities, especially in relation to open access, have…

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Lessons from Open Science across European Universities: policies, practices, and future directions - William Cawthorn

Open Science, which encompasses all scholarly disciplines, is increasingly recognised as a core feature of academic practice: it has the potential to improve the accessibility and integrity of…

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Stealing the Master's Tools - Sohail Jannesari (Speaker), Ricardo Twumasi, Clare Camp, Ruth Murphy

In an attempt to disrupt traditional paradigms of academic publishing, a decolonial initiative was forged between a group of health inequalities researchers. We began ‘Stolen Tools’, a…

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From practice to policy: how open research is changing research culture in cultural heritage - Jill Dye, Andrea Cop

The role of the museum (to preserve, interpret and make accessible collections and heritage) means that open access, in the broadest sense, has always been part of our purpose. Organisational…

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Open Research & Research Cultures at Edinburgh - Alex Peden

Research cultures are built and maintained by the actions, interactions, behaviours and processes that we all encounter and perform while undertaking or supporting research. These cultures are felt…

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Using CRediT to promote responsible research - Nik Tahirah Nik Hussin & Veronica Cano

Research culture is a complex concept, which includes the way we evaluate, support and reward quality in research and how we recognise varied contributions to a research activity. In 2023, the…

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