A Conference of Practices in Action
Modern scientific workflows are heavily dependent on their technical infrastructure. While some infrastructures enable collaborative, open, and researcher-owned processes, others lead to vendor lock-in, isolated efforts, and restrictive capabilities.
IOSP identifies, highlights, and adopts technical infrastructures that promote open practices across the entire pipeline of scientific discovery. From pre-registration and funding to collaborative methodologies, society administration, validation, and dissemination, IOSP guides researchers in using novel technologies for their participation in the conference. Following the conference, participants collaborate directly with the technicians developing these technologies to workshop advancements in scientific infrastructure.
Infrastructure Powering IOSP '25 Winter Event
DeSci Publish
Our primary submission, peer-review, and community management tool.
Coordination
Network
The hypothesis generation and synthesis AI tool that makes this research accessible.
IPFS
The data storage infrastructure that hosts all manuscripts, presentations, data, and code for the conference.
Silk
The key management tool for identity and credentialing.
Ceramic
Data management infrastructure that powers interoperability between storage protocols.
CODEX
The dPID persistent Identifier solution for all our research objects.
IOSP '25 Winter, the Conference, Day One
This year's winter conference 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, Frank Marchis, and others will showcase their recent integrations of novel technology into their research process.
The Methodology theme is open to submissions from any researcher (see criteria on submit page). To submit your research you will utilize novel infrastructure provided by DeSci Publish. On the DeSci Publish platform, you will build a complete research object containing at least your manuscript, data, and code. You will also receive a dPID as a permanent identifier via the CODEX protocol. Submissions will be reviewed via an attestation service also provided by DeSci Publish. While all submissions are welcome, we will prioritize research featuring open data and open-source code.
IOSP '25 Winter, the Workshops, Day Two
This year's winter workshops will focus on iterating on the six tools powering the conference. The Scientific Coordination Infrastructure and Operating Systems (SciOS) Collaborative will facilitate workshops between the infrastructure technicians and the researchers who submitted to the conference. These workshops will explore the experience of using the tools, the data needs of researchers, the capabilities of technologies, and future actions to advance the digital infrastructure powering open science.
Our topics this year include:
Data visitation and compute
Research publication and research object processes and management
Scaling expertise with automated research pipelines and AI agents
Discourse graphs
IOSP '25 Winter, The Development, Day 3
After our winter workshops, we'll work with the teams there and with teams throughout the ecosystem to continue the work we started on day two and to build the bridges between their infrastructures.
On this day we'll also open up our space to any infrastructures who want to host their own workshops or collaborations.
Institute of Open Science Practices ‘25
Denver, Colorado
Feb 23-24, 2025