Openness, Transparency, and Information in Context – Open Access Tage 2012 | Archive and Data Management Training Center

"Last week, I spent two late summer days in Vienna at Open Access Tage 2012, the yearly Open Access conference for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Hosted by the University of Vienna, the event brought together a multifarious group of researchers, librarians, archivists, and repository managers as well as representatives from the research funding agencies and publishing houses to discuss the state of Open Access and related trends in scholarly communication. With a significant number of presentations and lectures dedicated to research data, the Vienna conference offered ample opportunity to immerse yourself in this topic... I would say that three, strongly interconnected topics continued to crop up throughout the 'research data track': [1] enhanced publications or 'information in context,'  linking textual publications with data and other relevant information; [2] data as both a means and subject of quality assurance and transparency; [3] ownership of data..."