[open-science] Translations of open science roadmap documents in Poland

Sat Feb 23 09:46:24 UTC 2013

Thanks Paola.

These documents are not prepared by an international community, they
in principle concern only Poland and they do not qualify as
"scientific communication". I would have hard time convincing anybody
to work on them in English (additionally, it's actually forbidden by
law in case of the Academy to work on official documents in language
other than Polish).

I know that official translations add significant overhead, that's why
I'm asking if it's needed at all.

Cheers
PS

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio at gmail.com> wrote:
> Pawel
>
> of course it would be interesting to read what you guys are doing i Poland,
> but I wonder
>
> why was the original document not written in english in the first place (the
> lingua franca
> for scientific communication afaik)
>
> translations can be awkard, costly, need checking etc
>
> P
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Paweł Szczęsny <ps at pawelszczesny.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Currently there are two roadmap documents concerning development of
>> open science in Poland in the works. One is an initiative of research
>> community (open science working group of movement called Citizen of
>> Science) and will concern general directions of development of open
>> science in areas of OA, OD, OER, citizen science etc. The other is a
>> document on OA (and most likely on OD) prepared by Polish Academy of
>> Sciences.
>>
>> I am involved in preparations of both documents and I cannot promise
>> extremely progressive declarations in either of roadmaps (the biggest
>> factor is cost of certain 'open' solutions, such as gold OA on hybrid
>> terms). Nevertheless, both might be of interest to the international
>> open science community.
>>
>> The question is if there is indeed an interest outside of Poland that
>> warrants translations of both documents into English? I don't mind
>> providing quick summary after both are published, but that's not I
>> mean here. If I have your explicit interest (especially from people
>> outside of UK/US), that could help in including international context
>> in the roadmap (which I would really like to have). That's why I'm
>> asking so early (the work just has started).
>>
>> Best wishes
>> PS
>>
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