The University of Liège's Open Science Day, held on 7 November, brought together more than eighty participants to discuss innovative initiatives promoting the opening up of science to all. The event highlighted ULiège's commitments and the diversity of projects undertaken by its community, reflecting the impact of open science on research, education and society.
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n Thursday 7 November, the University of Liège held its second Open Science Day, with over twenty presentations and more than eighty participants. The day was an opportunity to recall ULiège's commitment to Open Science and to see the varied ways in which the ULiège university community is embracing it: Open Science allows openness to the world and civil society and encourages interdisciplinary approaches, going against the grain of the dominant economic models that compartmentalise research and are detrimental to creativity and innovation.
Each of the papers and speakers testified to this richness: These included discussions on open data, with the presentation of the SoccerNet database for sports video analysis and the sharing of best practice in data management in neurology and linguistics; open education, with the OLIVER project, from its technical to its philosophical aspects; open access and open publishing, with the presentation of a future Diamant journal in green chemistry; open source, with various initiatives such as the Open Source Academy, the presentation of open licences and the project to help students install Linux on their computers. Open Science thus permeates all the disciplines at ULiège (bioinformatics, biodiversity, ecology, qualitative analysis) and goes beyond the strictly scientific framework to open up to the arts and citizenship, as illustrated by the latest call for projects from the MSH, or the online guidance tool within B31. The day was also an opportunity to share with the community both new projects and new insights into tools that have already proved their worth: ORBi's REST API, Compass to Publish, PeriscOApe, Dataverse ULiège, Cassandre, OLIVER, AIASHI and, of course, ORBi .
Admittedly, there is still a lot of work to be done to achieve all the commitments in the University of Liège's Open Science roadmap, but the enthusiasm of the participants and the wonderful dynamic that is developing throughout the university around open science and its values are very encouraging. Let's hope that next year's third ULiège Open Science Day will be an opportunity to see further significant advances in open science at our university.
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