Johannes Rainer, leader of the Team Computational Metabolomics team at the Institute for Biomedicine, who has established successful tools and practices for open, collaborative, and reproducible research and whose engagement in a community approach to problem solving are influencing the general attitude of data scientists at the Institute and beyond in the vast R and Bioconductor communities.
His application stood out since he strongly believes in open software and method development to ensure transparency and reproducibility, and since he continuously engages in creating networks and enhances collaboration by encouraging contributions from the community. He applies a wide range of open research practices such as open data and method sharing, developing and sharing open source R packages, and favouring reviewing articles for open peer review journals. He is also an organizer and a key figure of the Open Seminar Series (OSS), a grass-root voluntary initiative aimed at stimulating the scientific environment at the Institute for Biomedicine. In the words of his colleagues, his work is influencing heavily the general attitude of data scientists at the Institute to favour open, collaborative and reproducible research, significantly increasing the quality of the scientific output.
Read Johannes' interview and view his nomination.
Andrea Abel, Lavinia Nicoleta Aparaschivei, Greta Franzini, Jennifer-Carmen Frey, Verena Lyding, Lionel Nicolas and Egon W. Stemle, aka the Language Technologies group, whose purview stretches across disciplines, languages and communities and manifests itself in the active participation and coordination of initiatives designed to bring people together, invite them to join in the research and shape best practice.
Their application stood out because of the wide embrace of open research practices, going from open access to scientific publications to open source and open data deposit, all through collaborative and transparent research venues. The use and implementation of open science practices are clearly driven not only by a deep commitment to it, but also by a distinct understanding of the benefits that can derive. In particular, the tremendous impact that derives from publishing data, computational workflows, and resources, together with a big drive for community engagement, citizen science, preservation of local resources and knowledge. Taking science out of the ivory tower seems to be the goal of the group, and open science is definitely helping them in achieving it!
Read the interview with Egon Stemle and view the Language Technologies group nomination.
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