[open-science] Call for participation: Open Science Q&A, a question & answer website for you

Christian Pietsch christian.pietsch at uni-bielefeld.de
Fri Oct 2 09:38:19 UTC 2015


Dear all,

some of you know that the effort to establish an Open Science
community within the StackExchange network failed – the private beta
phase did not develop enough activity, or whatever.

Daniel Mietchen and I found this regrettable and decided to revive the
beta site that had already amassed about 100 questions and lots of
answers. And more than 300 users! Towards the end of August, all of
this had disappeared from the Web except for one XML dump containing
all of this.

The admins of PysicsOverflow.org then helped us import the dump
into the free and open source Question2Answer software. You can see
the result here <https://openscience.uni-bielefeld.de/>.

We have a stable technical infrastructure: For the first three years,
the site will be sponsored by the new CONQUAIRE project (Continuous
quality control for research data to ensure reproducibility,
<http://conquaire.uni-bielefeld.de/>). After that, Bielefeld
University Library will ensure permanent operation.

The current status is that we have 30 active users (some new, others
have reclaimed their imported profile). Of these, three act as admins
and another three act as moderators. More volunteers are welcome!

What we now need most is users: whether anonymous or registered,
please contribute questions, answers, comments or votes! We want this
to become a knowledge resource on all aspects of Open Science and Open
Research – much like a wiki, but in a Q&A site like this one, good
questions and answers will be more visible than less useful
contributions. Please link the site from your websites!

Cheers,
Christian

-- 
  Christian Pietsch · http://purl.org/net/pietsch
  LibTec (Library Technology and Knowledge Management) department
  of Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld, Germany
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