Announcements!
- 25 July: TOPS Community Forum
- 29 July: Navigating growth and scale to sustain open communities
- OSTP releases New Guidance to Ensure Federally Funded Research Data Equitably Benefits All of America
- AGU announces OpenCore Leads and Subject Matter Experts
- New Funding Opportunities
- New Job Opportunities
Transform to Open Science (TOPS)
What We Do
The world is changing rapidly. Everyday new problems emerge and it takes groundbreaking scientific discoveries to solve them. To stay ahead, the pace of science must accelerate and science needs to be even better, more accurate, and faster to enable the truly transformative breakthroughs that will help us thrive. Closed science, hoarding information and resources, silos of knowledge holds science back by limiting who can participate. We need more voices that work together and share knowledge and resources. Only then will we find new and better solutions. NASA's Transform to Open Science (TOPS) mission will allow us to create a scientific culture that is ready for 21st century challenges. Open Science will broaden participation, increase accessibility to knowledge, and embrace new technologies that can respond to these changes at scale. We hope you will join us in creating an open science infrastructure in your organization. TOPS will show you how!
Goals
Open Science creates more advanced and inclusive research faster, builds a more just and equitable world, and ensures that minds from all walks of life can participate in science. TOPS is NASA’s ambitious plan to accelerate open science practices. It’s a 5 year journey that will
- Increase understanding and adoption of open science principles and techniques
- Accelerate major scientific discoveries
- Broaden participation by historically excluded communities
TOPS and the Year of Open Science
2023 is the Year Of Open Science, a NASA initiative to spark change and inspire open science engagement through events and activities that will shift the current paradigm and change practices. The Transform to Open Science (TOPS) community coordinates efforts designed to rapidly transform agencies, organizations, and communities.
Implementation
- Area 1: Engagement: Building community, publishing articles, appearing on podcasts, expanding knowledge about open science, integrating Open Science into themes at large-scale events and conferences.
- Area 2: Capacity sharing: Producing online, free, open science curriculum, hosting workshops, events, cohorts, science team meetings, hackathons, and constructing multiple pathways to an Open Science Badge.
- Area 3: Incentives: Developing Open Science Badge/Certification and establishing high profile awards in support of open science research.
- Area 4: Moving towards openness: Recognizing open science practices, holding open meetings, sharing hidden knowledge, and inclusive collaborations.
Overview Presentation
Short presentation on TOPS initiative:
- Slides:
- Recording starts at 1:55:32.
Join TOPS Mailing List
Please join the TOPS email list to hear about further activates and become more involved! Discussions are enabled for this GitHub repository, so feel free to ask questions or join conversations there.
Repository
This repository is used to openly share information about TOPS and the Year of Open Science. Issues are used to collect tasks for development, and Markdown text documents for any planning documents that need to be developed. This could include linking to other resources. Please feel free to submit an issue or fork the repository to make a contribution.
We hope you will join us and champion open science!