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Efforts Towards Openness and Transparency of Data: A Focus on Open Science Platforms

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Exploring Digital Ecosystems

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Although Open Science currently enjoys widespread support across scientific and technological communities, institutional and cultural barriers remain, as does the lack of investment in knowledge to foster Open Science. Generally, open research processes are based on information system infrastructure, such as informatics platforms where efficient web interfaces should be developed to easily record and share open data. Moreover, Open Science requires a systemic shift in current practices to bring transparency across the system, to ensure the ongoing sustainability of the associated social and physical infrastructures, and to foster greater public trust in science. Until now, the literature has focused its attention more on the final phases of the research process and, in particular, on Open Access, which is only one of the final steps of the Open Science research process. From this perspective, our research focuses on Open Science infrastructure, considering the openness and transparency attributes, with the aim of identifying a theoretical model able to assess web interfaces of Open Science platforms.

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This research is financially supported by the University “Parthenope” of Naples (Italy) within the research program 2015–17 (competitive research 2016-18). A previous version of this article was presented at the 15th Conference of Italian Chapter of AIS (Association for Information Systems) “Living in the digital ecosystem: technologies, organizations and human agency” (Pavia, October 12–13, 2018).

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  2. Italian Space Agency, Rome, Italy

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Mancini, D., Lardo, A., De Angelis, M. (2020). Efforts Towards Openness and Transparency of Data: A Focus on Open Science Platforms. In: Lazazzara, A., Ricciardi, F., Za, S. (eds) Exploring Digital Ecosystems. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 33. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23665-6_6

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