Science 2.0 Conference in Hamburg March 26/27, 2014

With the event of Social Media, well established principles of scholarly communication are changing dramatically. For centuries scientific libraries served as single point of access to scientific information in many formats and from many sources. However, today scientists are exploring new publication forms, e.g.  scientific wikis, new feedback channels, e.g. microblogging services, or online research environments, e.g. scientific networking and publications sites. This movement towards more participation, collaboration, cooperation and discourse affects both libraries and the scientific communities. Within this context, Science 2.0 deals with the investigation of how Social Media will change research and publication processes. Bringing together both stakeholder groups affected by Science 2.0 – the library community and the scientific community – makes the first international conference on Science 2.0 a unique event. The conference is dedicated to the latest scientific trends, developments, challenges as well as best practices in the area of Science 2.0. It provides an excellent framework for networking among international researchers from different scientific disciplines and practitioners from libraries.

The conference programme is composed of invited talks from internationally recognized experts.

  • Jean-Claude Burgelman, European Commission, DG Research & Innovation, Head of Unit A.6: Science Policy, Foresight and Data
  • Prof. Dr. Michael Granitzer, Institut für Medieninformatik, Universität Passau, Deutschland
  • Prof. Dr. Denis Helic, Institut für Wissenstechnologien, Technische Universität Graz, Österreich
  • Rene König, Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Deutschland
  • Prof. David Nicholas, CIBER Research Ltd., UK
  • Dr. Marco Pistore, Foundation Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italien
  • Celina Ramjoué, Head of Sector “Open Access to Scientific Publications and Data”, European Commission
  • Dr. Urs Schoepflin, Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Deutschland
  • Prof. Ralph Schröder, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK
  • Prof. Ursula Schulz, Hochschule der Angewandten Wissenschaften Hamburg, Deutschland
  • Prof. Paweł Szczęsny, Biowissenschaften, Universität Warschau, Polnische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Polen

Deliberately long breaks throughout the conference and a social event in the evening emphasize the role of the Science 2.0 conference as a unique networking platform. In 2014, the Science 2.0 conference is organized by Goportis, the Leibniz Library Network for Research Information, and the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0. If you want to learn more about Science 2.0, please watch our Science 2.0 explainity video.The Hans Bredow Institute is member of the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0. This Alliance deals with the investigation of new fields for research and development, originating from the application of new participative and collaborative internet technologies in all phases of research. Within this context, the research network “Science 2.0” places the emphasis on three open and challenging research pillars:

  1. New Working Habits: How does the internet with its new possibilities, particularly the social web, change working habits of researchers? How does it impact on today’s research and publication processes in different research disciplines?
  2. Technology Development: How can Science 2.0 support existing research processes? How can today’s research processes be innovated by Science 2.0 tools?
  3. User Behaviour Research: Which new forms of scientific communication – within the research community and between the public and the research community – does Science 2.0 facilitate? How do researchers use new Science 2.0 tools?

All mentioned research pillars address challenges which are of great importance for both, science and society. This is why fifteen Institutes of the Leibniz Association, further eight institutes of Universities and Applied Universities and Wikimedia Deutschland have formed the research network “Science 2.0”. Its objective is to investigate the research challenges related to Science 2.0 at the highest possible quality level. Within the next ten years, the network will follow a highly interdisciplinary research approach to find relevant answers to today’s and future questions in the area of Science 2.0. The network will bundle and exploit existing synergies among its participants resulting in a notably high “group intelligence”. With this group intelligence the network can deliver results and insights which are of much higher quality and which provide a much greater added value as compared to the sum of individual and isolated activities.