Humanities

I have just been involved in a new committee that will advise on national research infrastructure in Norway. I guess my appointment to this committee is partly based on my experience with building up a medium-sized infrastructure on my own, the fourMs Lab. In addition, I lead the infrastructure board of the Department of Musicology and am a member of the e-infrastructure committee of the University of Oslo. The following text is based on some thoughts on infrastructure needs from a humanities perspective that I presented in a meeting....

Open Science is on everyone’s lips these days. But why don’t we use the term Open Research more? This is a question I have been asking regularly after I was named Norwegian representative in EUA’s Expert Group on Science 2.0 / Open Sciencecommittee earlier this year. For those who don’t know, the European University Association (EUA) represents more than 800 universities and national rectors’ conferences in 48 European countries. It is thus a very interesting organization when it comes to influencing the European higher education and research environment....