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Hi, I'm Dr. Massimo
Menichinelli,
profesor contratado doctor,
which is associate professor,
at Elisava, Barcelona School
of Design and Engineering,
University of Vic,
University of Central Catalonia.
Today, we'll talk about current
trends in open science.
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The topic of open
science has emerged more
in the last years and last
decade, but actually,
it emerged from several long-term
trends that started decades ago.
Overall, it's the story of
increasing the openness,
moving from software to science,
and even more.
Among these trends,
there is the long-term trend
of opening access of content,
information and tools.
This, roughly, can be considered
as starting in the 1980s.
Another long-term trend is increasingly
involving users and stakeholders,
later, in designing artifacts,
tools, services and policies.
This started in the 1970s.
Another trend, and
this is more recent,
is the trend of online
mass-scale collaboration.
While we normally talk about digital
platforms in the last two decades,
early signs of this can be
traced back to the 1990s.
Overall, we can consider this as also
the impact of digital technologies,
especially software, hardware
and online platforms,
on society,
in how we manage processes
and how we open them,
and how we increase the speed and
velocity and variety in the global reach.
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In terms of opening
content and tools,
which are the best examples
and the most famous examples,
and also, they're probably
the fields where all of this
has become more popular and
relevant in the last decades,
is the field of software.
And especially with the
Free/Libre Open Source Software.
Probably the example that is more
popular is Linux, the operating system,
technically called GNU/Linux because
of the root that has been so pervasive
in [inaudible] of mobile
phones and desktops,
that actually created the possibility
for many more open source software.
And also, for the realization that
it, actually, is a way of working.
It's a business model
that can actually work
and it has a lot of potentialities,
not just in software.
