Open Science

Open letter on making encyclopaedias fit for the digital age

by Dimi Dimitrov
February 23, 2023February 23, 2023

Subject: Open letter from Wikimedia on making encyclopaedias fit for the digital age

Dear Executive Vice-President Vestager,

We kindly request a meeting with you to talk about how to ensure that encyclopaedic knowledge can be fit for the digital age.

by Eric Luth
May 23, 2022May 23, 2022

An illustration of the UNESCO Recommendations on Open Science, Jennifer Miller, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

In late 2021, the UNESCO General Assembly approved a new Recommendation on Open Science. All the member states agreed on a final version, that for the first time provides an official definition of what open science is, and that calls for legal and policy changes in favor of open science. As a recommendation is the strongest policy tool of UNESCO, “intended to influence the development of national laws and practices”, this is important news for the entire scientific community.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sergey Pesterev / Wikimedia Commons

Benh LIEU SONG (Flickr), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

JohnDarrochNZ, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Markus Trienke, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Michael S Adler, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Stefan Krause, Germany, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons

Open letter on making encyclopaedias fit for the digital age

UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science

FREE KNOWLEDGE ADVOCACY GROUP EU

<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magnificent_CME_Erupts_on_the_Sun_-_August_31_(7931835322).jpg">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

<a href="/wiki/User:Black_Sickle" title="User:Black Sickle">Sergey Pesterev</a> / <a href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Wikimedia Commons</a>

Sergey Pesterev / Wikimedia Commons

<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Looking_upward_at_the_Yick_Cheong_Building,_13_June_2019.jpg">Benh LIEU SONG (Flickr)</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons

Benh LIEU SONG (Flickr), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Common_seal_(Phoca_vitulina)_2.jpg">Charles J. Sharp</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons

Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crowd_listening_to_speakers.jpg">JohnDarrochNZ</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons

JohnDarrochNZ, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dampfzug_am_Brocken_in_Winterlandschaft_(2).jpg">Markus Trienke</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons

Markus Trienke, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Total_Solar_Eclipse_8-21-17.jpg">Michael S Adler</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons

Michael S Adler, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gl%C3%BChlampe_explodiert.jpg">Stefan Krause, Germany</a>, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons

Stefan Krause, Germany, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons

Open Science

Open letter on making encyclopaedias fit for the digital age

UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science

FREE KNOWLEDGE ADVOCACY GROUP EU