Paris Conference on Open Research Information
The Paris Conference on Open Research Information took place on September 23-24, 2024 at Sorbonne University, Paris.
Aims of the conference
In September of 2024 signatories, supporters and parties interested in the Barcelona Declaration met at Sorbonne University in Paris to discuss next steps in taking the agenda of the Declaration forward.
In a two day hybrid in-person and online meeting, participants shared progress and challenges of advancing the production, management and use of open research information, and worked together to prioritize concrete actions that will make up a shared road map.
Conference outcomes
At the meeting, concrete actions were formulated and prioritized on the topics
- Journal article metadata
- Metadata for research outputs in institutional repositories,
preprint repositories and data repositories - Funding metadata
- Replacing closed systems for research information
- Sustainability of infrastructures
- Evaluating open data
- Evidence of benefits of open research information
Following the meeting, a theory of change framework was applied dividing actions into four categories (information gathering, frameworks & analysis, principles & guidelines and implementation & monitoring).
The result is a concrete roadmap for coordinated activities. We invite organizations to get involved in the working groups that will take forward the actions on the roadmap.
The conference report describing the actions, roadmap and next steps (including coordination and support) is available on Zenodo.
Get involved!
If your organization is interested in participating in one or more working groups, or, as a signatory organization, in coordinating one of the working groups, please fill out this form by November 30.
Update (2024-12-04): We have received over 100 expression of interest for working groups - it is great to see the involvement of the community on the topic of open research information! We aim to set up a meeting with potential working group coordinators, and have working groups populated and starting active work in early 2025.
Conference materials
Next to the conference report, an overview of the conference programme and abstracts of all presentations are available on this website. The detailed conference programme can also be downloaded.
Many of the presentation slides of Day 1 are available in a collection on Zenodo.
Organizing committee
- Amélie Church (Sorbonne Universite)
- Bernardo Rondelli (SIRIS Foundation)
- Bianca Kramer (Sesame Open Science)
- Cameron Neylon (Curtin Open Knowledge Institute)
- Nees Jan van Eck (CWTS, Leiden University)
- Ludo Waltman (CWTS, Leiden University)