Introduction to Open Sciene in object-related research

This presentation was given during the WiNoDa winter school, a five-day intensive course on the topic of Research with Natural Science Collections. Data, Quality, and Methods from 24-28 November 2025. Organization: German Federation for Biological Data e.V. (GFBio) with support from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN), German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg (VuK) Abstract: Open Science can be seen as an idea, a concept, or a practice and strengthens research and researchers by improving reuse for new research questions, fostering collaborations, increasing citation numbers, ensuring good scientific practice, enhancing transparency and reproducibility, as well as boosting the visibility of research in society. This lecture provides an overview of the different dimensions and aspects of Open Science in general and in the context of object-related research more specifically. In the second part, it discusses the challenges for Open Science and its relation with the concepts of FAIR and CARE, as well as value sensitive research. Since Open Science covers the whole research cycle, it touches on several topics that later session will discuss in more detail.