User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/OKCon 2013/Open knowledge in the context of higher education and research/Abstract

The following information on this talk has been submitted on May 31 in response to the call for proposals.

Topic
Open Science and Research

Format
Talk

Title
Open knowledge in the context of higher education and research

Summary
to be used on website and in promotional material (~3-5 sentences).

Discussions of Open Knowledge in academic contexts have largely been focused on availability of the formally published results of research projects. In this talk, the focus will be on the research process leading to these results, as well as on the contributions that providers of research funding or research infrastructure can make to opening up that process. For each step of the research cycle, possible approaches to achieving greater openness will be outlined, and practical examples will be added where available. The talk will be drafted at and given from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/OKCon_2013/Open_knowledge_in_the_context_of_higher_education_and_research.

Additional information
What else you want to tell us about the proposal outside the public summary (~3-5 sentences)?

This proposal is based on a Knowledge Exchange ( http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/ ) meeting on May 21 on how open approaches could look like in the context of research funding, in which I had represented OKF-DE. Knowledge Exchange have defined Open Knowledge and Open Culture as key themes in their Strategic Plan until 2015, and this proposal is meant to report on the progress achieved in these areas until OKCon, as well as to invite feedback from the wider open knowledge and open culture communities.