Figure 1: Open Science Principles (credit: UNESCO Recommendations 2021)
“An inclusive construct that combines various movements and practices aiming to make multilingual scientific knowledge openly available, accessible and reusable for everyone, to increase scientific collaborations and sharing of information for the benefits of science and society, and to open the processes of scientific knowledge creation, evaluation and communication to societal actors beyond the traditional scientific community”
“An approach to research based on open cooperative work that emphasizes the sharing of knowledge, results and tools as early and widely as possible. It operates on the principle of being ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary’”
Open Science policies enhance the integrity of the scientfic process and aim to make all data as open, interoperable, and resuable as possible.
Data management within the EUREMAP project follows directly from attempting to implement the recommendations and policies of UNESCO and the EU Commission. This includes publishing data according to FAIR principles that data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Resusable.