Conference: Interdisciplinary Open Practices Workshop: Understanding & Designing Organizing Practices for Open Ecosystems

许多人认为科学家、私人公司和政府应该与公众分享他们的活动。与这种共享相关的活动被称为“开放式工作”。公开工作有助于人们相互学习，跟踪其他人在做什么，并检查彼此的工作。人们对公开工作的最佳方式知之甚少。为了更多地了解开放工作如何为国家利益做出贡献，跨学科开放实践研讨会（IOP研讨会）汇集了来自不同科学领域、私营公司和政府的研究人员。研讨会参与者一起工作，找出已知的内容，并计划项目，以确定关于开放实践的未知内容，以及如何使用它们。该项目产生一份最终报告，向科学家、领导和工人提供有关开放式工作的好处以及开放式工作如何有利于科学技术进步的信息。IOP研讨会的目标是了解哪些开放实践比其他实践效果更好，以及在什么情况下这些实践效果最好。在研讨会上，研究人员介绍了关于开放工作如何在不同领域发生的信息：开放科学、开源软件、开放政府、开放教育、开源智能等。开放作业专家和学生的报告以及工作组讨论展示了当前的趋势并探索了新的研究课题。专家们还讨论了关于开放式工作（也称为“开放式组织”）的新科学。这项新科学表明，公开工作的人可以决定他们想要多透明，并决定谁将被允许在他们的团队中做决定。这些决定包括决定如何将来自不同背景的人包括在内，以及其他人复制他们的工作应该有多容易。最后，研究人员彼此共享数据集，以激发新的想法和合作。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Many people think that scientists, private companies, and governments should share their activities with the public. The activities involved with this sharing are called “open work.” Working openly helps people learn from each other, keep track of what other people are doing, and check each other’s work. Not much is known about the best ways for people to work openly. To learn more about how open work can contribute to the Nation’s interests, the Interdisciplinary Open Practices Workshop (IOP Workshop) brings together researchers from different fields of science, private companies, and government. Workshop participants work together to figure out what is known and to plan projects to determine what is not known about open practices and how they can be used. This project produces a final report that provides information to scientists, leaders, and workers about the benefits of open work and how open work can benefit the progress of science and technology. The goals of the IOP Workshop are to learn which open practices work better than others and under what circumstances those practices work best. In the workshop, researchers present information about how open work happens in different fields: open science, open source software, open government, open education, open source intelligence, and others. Presentations by open work experts and students and working group discussions demonstrate current trends and explore new research topics. Experts also discuss new science on open work (also called “open organizing”). This new science shows how people who work openly can make decisions about how transparent they want to be and decide who will be permitted to make decisions in their groups. These decisions include determining how people from different backgrounds will be included and how easy it should be for other people to reproduce their work. Finally, researchers share datasets with each other to spark new ideas and collaborations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.