Research Evaluation and Open Scholarship: Cultural resources, agents of change, and partnerships

Within the community of policy makers and advocates of open scholarship, there is increasing awareness that (a) better recognition and reward of openness practices is a necessary condition for broad adoption of open scholarship, (b) top-down guidance (e.g. OS-CAM matrix), which is aimed at a wide range of national contexts and disciplinary practices, will require substantial cultural change to shift the priority of research evaluation toward principles of open scholarship and (c) bottom-up openness initiatives and practices must emerge from local contexts to enable relevant, sustainable change.

With this in mind, the Openness Profile is conceived as a contribution at the level of open infrastructure; providing lightweight, flexible resources that facilitate new ways of recognizing and rewarding contributions to open scholarship. Two key functions of this workshop are (1) to identify, discuss affordances and limitations of the OP concept, and (2) to explore the conditions needed to pilot the OP with specific evaluation use cases.

As such, the objective of this presentation is to situate the Openness Profile concept and aims within related discussions and/or initiatives. The aim of this approach is to help clarify an opportunity space for deploying the Openness Profile and thereby provide some common scaffolding for further discussions.