Open Science - Studium Generale Universiteit Utrecht

[From Google's English]"'I was yesterday at a meeting open access and it went all the time but one little thing: product availability,' says sociologist Christian Bröer (UvA). That is at the very end of the research process. His ambition is the openness that is in open access, to translate into all aspects of the research process. Between all the agreements and pressed by he freed time to tell me about his new initiative: Crowd Findings . Together with students and software developers, he created several prototypes of online platforms for collaborative research. For example, to investigate the interpretation of emotions in political statements. He argues that the rigid distinction between professional and seemed to fade is 'there are lots of people who know a lot.' Social media and modern software offer an openness that makes it possible to bring together different interpretations. This gives faster results and better understanding because there is a kind of discussion. So you can harness the collective intelligence of a group of people optimally ..."