Dr Jennifer Edmond, Co-Director of the TCD Centre for Digital Humanities has been appointed as a new member of the European Commission’s Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP). She will be acting on behalf of the pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities (DARIAH). Dr Edmond is one of the two heads of DARIAH’s Virtual Competence Centre “Research and Education”
The OSPP will be instrumental in further developing and implementing a European Open Science Policy. The OSPP is a small, high-level group of experts representing stakeholder perspectives relevant for the development of Open Science policy. Research Commissioner Moedas launched the Open Science Policy Platform on the 27th of May at the Competitiveness Council in Brussels.
Dr Edmond believes that Open Science must take into account the challenges facing those in the Arts and Humanities disciplines: ‘Open Science cannot develop effectively without a full understanding of its implications across diverse disciplines and sectors of research.’
‘For example, cultural heritage institutions vary widely in their approach to releasing data for research uses and in some cases researchers must make binding commitments not to release the information any further. This is a barrier to Open Science far beyond the control of the individual scholar and one that is presenting significant barriers to the development of research infrastructure and the circulation of knowledge.’
Click here to read an interview with Jennifer, published in the DARIAH newsletter.