Location: Paris, France and New York City, USA
The Institute of Open Science Practice (IOSP) has announced its inaugural global conference, set to take place on the 22nd and 23rd of February 2024 in Denver, Colorado. This event will bring together interdisciplinary researchers and technologists to explore cutting-edge scientific infrastructure and the future of open science.
The planning committee features esteemed researchers dedicated to advancing technical solutions that bring open science principles to life. Notable members include Erik Schultes from the GoFAIR Foundation, Franck Marchis of the SETI Institute, and Chris Erdmann of SciLifeLab.
The conference invites participants to explore, demonstrate, and iterate on technologies that make open science the default practice across diverse academic fields such as biology, neuroscience, astrophysics, computer science, and complex systems.
The conference is broken into two days.
Day 1: Presentations, talks, and panel discussions.
This year's presentation day will spotlight data-intensive researchers and innovative infrastructure for open science. The first day will be broken into three themes.
- Introduction to novel technology and concepts; Talks and panels from expert technicians on the current capabilities and near-term potential of cutting-edge infrastructure.
- Methodology, use of existing technology, and challenges related to research artifacts such as code and data; Submission presentations from researchers who use traditional technology to meet their infrastructure needs.
- Active and ongoing integrations of novel technology in research; Keynotes from Erik Schultes, Franck Marchis, and others will showcase their recent integrations of novel technology into their research process.
Day 2: Workshops
This year's winter workshops will focus on the infrastructure necessary for the tools powering the conference and related areas such as DeSci Publish and IPFS. The Scientific Coordination Infrastructures and Operating Systems (SciOS) Collaborative will facilitate discussions between the infrastructure technologists and the researchers who submitted their project to the conference. These discussions will explore the experience of using the tools, the data needs of researchers and the capabilities of technologies, and future actions to advance the digital infrastructure powering open science.
Join the conference.
Innovation at IOSP begins with submission. For this process, the conference partners with DeSci Publish. This platform allows researchers to share their publications and all additional digital materials—such as code, data, and pre-prints—with a unified and persistent identifier. Upon submission, the review committee will review all submissions with transparent evaluation criteria, prioritizing reproducibility and transparency over results designed to impress.
In line with IOSP’s guiding principles of advancing scientific quality, community ownership, and interdisciplinary collaboration, all changes made during the research process will be tracked through persistent identifiers and versioning, creating a machine-readable metadata schema. This approach ensures that all research remains accessible, even to autonomous agents.
Key topics at IOSP 2025 will include:
- Making large-scale data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reproducible)
- Machine Actionability
- Managing Data Privacy Concerns
- CARE data principles (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics)
- Social Governance and Distributed Coordination of Data
- Data Ethics and Philosophy
To learn more about the conference or to submit a proposal for consideration, interested parties can go to the IOSP website or contact the IOSP team at contact@scios.tech.
The Institute for Open Science Practices (IOSP) promotes interdisciplinary research and technologies aimed at advancing open, inclusive, and reproducible science. By leveraging innovative software, community-driven governance, and robust technical infrastructure, IOSP accelerates and enhances the quality of scientific research. It brings researchers and technologists together to ensure that these tools evolve to meet modern research needs. IOSP was formed as a partnership between OpSci and SciOS, with guidance from organizations like the GoFAIR Foundation, the SETI Institute, and SciLifeLabs.