The Institute of Open Science Practices
Transforming Research Through Open Infrastructure
The Institute of Open Science Practices (IOSP) is part living conference, part software, and part professional society. We are a community of interdisciplinary researchers. We scale and utilize novel technical infrastructure to make better, faster, more inclusive and open science. IOSP pushes scientific practice beyond the pdf.
IOSP is a platform that showcases open science, exposes researchers to ground-breaking technology, and connects technologists with the critical feedback they need to help drive society toward a more transparent and collaborative scientific enterprise.
The IOSP Process
We onboard scientists to existing technologies that make Open Science the default. Step one in our process is to have researchers submit all of their digital materials, not just their PDFs on a platform that aggregates all research artifacts into a single digital object. Second, we distribute review, make it open, and evaluate research on criteria meant to establish accurate + reproducible scientific process over results that wow.
During the whole process, all changes will be tracked using persistent identifiers and version tracking. We'll build a Machine readable schema of the important metadata, making every paper accessible to autonomous agents. Then, we’ll take what broke and fix it in collaboration with those tools after the conference.
IOSP Guiding Principles
Advancing Scientific Quality:
We onboard scientists into a system that enhances research quality. From submission to presentation, we support reproducible workflows.
Community Owned
The IOSP operates on an open, community-owned protocol for fund-raising, governance, evaluation, and reproducible open science. We embrace distributed contribution, empowering researchers to collaborate towards shared goals.Interdisciplinary
IOSP supports diverse academic contributions across various fields including Biology, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Complex Systems, and more. We encourage a multidisciplinary approach to solving complex problems.
