[OpenGeoscience] EGU23: Cultural change and digital research infrastructures

[Daniel Nüst]

Dear all,

We would like to encourage you to submit an abstract to our EGU session 
“Cultural change and digital research infrastructures” to be held at the 
EGU General Assembly in Vienna & online from April 23 to 28 2023.

I hope this topic is of interest to readers on this list who are 
involved in creating and maintaining data infrastructures that are 
(also) used for open science and research. Please consider sharing this 
call within your networks and with interested colleagues.


Research data infrastructures (RDIs) live and die with their uptake by 
the communities of practice that identify/associate themselves with 
them. Even though it is clear that RDIs are indispensable for solving 
big societal challenges, their wide adoption requires a cultural change 
within research communities so that RDIs and Open Science can leverage 
their full potential. RDI maintainers and user communities must unravel 
a knot between individual benefits, established working methods or 
community practices, digital disruption, building careers, researcher 
freedom, societal needs, technology, DEI, and more. As such a change 
cannot be mandated top-down, the usability, usefulness, and users' needs 
are crucial topics for domain-specific/national/international RDIs. As 
research is international and providers of RDIs often deliver related or 
overlapping services, even in domain-specific RDIs, an increased effort 
in international cooperation is needed. Efforts (e.g., data, metadata, 
or interfaces interoperability) need to be aligned, not rebuilt or 
duplicated. To be able to provide the community of diverse career stages 
and backgrounds with a convincing infrastructure that is supported 
beyond national and institutional boundaries, new collaboration patterns 
and funding approaches must be tested so that RDIs foster cultural 
change, not thwart it. The cultural change must include the RDI provider 
community itself.
This session provides a forum to exchange methods, stories, and ideas to 
enable cultural change and international collaboration in scientific 
communities in connection with digital research data infrastructures.

Topics of submissions may include but are not limited to:

- Experiences with users and user engagement in building an RDI at 
different levels
- International collaboration around RDIs or cultural change in academia
- Culture Change in the RDI provider community: Collaboration as a way 
to advance consistency, efficiency, and sustainability of services
- Report on observed or actively managed cultural change processes in 
ESS communities
- User stories on RDIs
- Strategies for culture change in geosciences/in user communities
- Experiences with implementing directives and guidelines
- Adoption of technological advancements by communities of practice
- Observations of shifts in common/mandatory research and publishing 
practices in ESS
- Cultural change and individual behaviour (e.g., Open Scholarship)

Link to session: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/session/45424


Please do not hesitate to get in touch with Daniel Nüst 
(daniel.nuest at tu-dresden.de) if you have any questions on the session.

We look forward to your submissions!

Best regards,
Daniel Nüst (TU Dresden), Kirsten Elger (GFZ), Kerstin Lehnert (Columbia 
University), Geertje ter Maat (Utrecht University), Jörg Seegert (TU 
Dresden)



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Daniel Nüst
NFDI4Earth https://www.nfdi4earth.de | TU Dresden
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0024-5046
Twitter: @nordholmen | https://github.com/nuest | 🥏