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Bianca Kramer
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website: https://sesameopenscience.org
Mastodon: https://akademienl.social/@MsPhelps

Open science, open metadata, open infrastructure.

Executive Director of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information @barcelonadori.bsky.social
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🗓️2026 starts with a relevant development around research information

@acm.org fully transitions to open access publishing, but puts metadata and search in ACM Digital Library behind paywall.

More context:
🔗 cacm.acm.org/opinion/gran...
www.ipetitions.com/petition/res...
cacm.acm.org
January 6, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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barcelonadori.bsky.social
Season’s greetings from the Barcelona Declaration 🟣🟡

As the year comes to a close, thank you to everyone who makes this community possible: across working groups, task forces, and all the conversations in between.

Wishing you a well-deserved break. Onward to 2026, together.
Illustrated winter-themed greeting card with a light textured background, featuring snowflakes, pine trees, stars, and festive details in soft purple and yellow tones. On the right, a message thanks the open research information community and sends end-of-year wishes, signed “Greetings from the Barcelona Declaration.” Illustrated summer-themed greeting card with a light textured background, featuring the sun, clouds, leaves, seashells, and flowing wave patterns in soft purple and yellow tones. On the right, a message thanks the open research information community and sends end-of-year wishes, signed “Greetings from the Barcelona Declaration.”
December 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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barcelonadori.bsky.social
Highlights:
✨ statements alone aren’t sufficient
🔎 enables analysis & verification across outputs
🏗️ infrastructure matters (for example, Crossref Grant IDs) + stronger workflows
🔗 clear roles for funders, publishers & infrastructure providers
December 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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barcelonadori.bsky.social
This post by @hldejonge.bsky.social, Katharina Rieck and Zoe Ancion (Barcelona Declaration Working Group Coordintors) examines what’s needed beyond funding statements in individual publications and why open, structured funder metadata is important.
December 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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barcelonadori.bsky.social
Open funder metadata is essential for true research transparency

Funding transparency is key for trust in research. Recent guidance from COPE and the International Science Council confirms it’s firmly on the agenda.

🔗 barcelona-declaration.org/news/2025121...
Open funder metadata is essential for true research transparency
The disclosure of who funds research is an important way of building trust in published findings. Commenting on recent interventions by The Committee on Publication Ethics and the International Scienc...
barcelona-declaration.org
December 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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barcelonadori.bsky.social
The blogpost is a commentary on recent interventions by the the Committee on Publication Ethics @publicationethics.bsky.social and the International Science Council (ISC) @sciencecouncil.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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barcelonadori.bsky.social
To be truly effective funder metadata should be made openly accessible to all beyond the level of individual publications.

Blog post by @hldejonge.bsky.social Katharina Rieck and Zoé Ancion (co-chairs of the Barcelona Declaration working group on funding metadata)

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Open funder metadata is essential for true research transparency - Impact of Social Sciences
Funder metadata is vital to understanding where research comes from & how it is used. But, to be truly effective it needs to be open to all.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
msphelps.bsky.social
Come and hear what other institutions are already doing to transition to using and producing open research information!

Webinar on Dec 4 15:00-16:30, organized by the Barcelona Declaration in collaboration with Helmholtz Open Science Office

👇👇👇
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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ludowaltman.bsky.social
Delighted to see this announcement by @uva.nl of its signature of the @barcelonadori.bsky.social www.uva.nl/shared-conte...

Support for the Barcelona Declaration keeps growing in the Netherlands!

@cwtsnl.bsky.social
UvA signs the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information
The Executive Board of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has signed the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information in September. This international initiative advocates for openness of all typ...
www.uva.nl
October 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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barcelonadori.bsky.social
2/2
• 45 funders using Grant IDs (250k+ links)
• Standardisation + coordination = faster progress🔗

Read: barcelona-declaration.org/news/2025102...

#FundingMetadata #OpenScience #OpenResearchInformation
Moving funding metadata forward: key takeaways from a Barcelona Declaration round table
On October 2, 2025, funders, publishers, submission system providers and infrastructure organisations came together for a focused discussion on improving the collection and sharing of open funding met...
barcelona-declaration.org
October 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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1/2 Moving funding metadata forward: highlights from our round table (co-organized with @crossref.bsky.social)

New blog by @hldejonge.bsky.social , based on Working Group 3 (Funding Metadata)

• ~25% Crossref records have funding info ⬇️
October 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
msphelps.bsky.social
We're covering a lot of ground next week (OA week) with the Barcelona Declaration!

👇
barcelonadori.bsky.social Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information @barcelonadori.bsky.social · Oct 16
Barcelona Declaration — OA Week Itinerary 🧭✈️🚆

One week, many stops; one destination: open research information.
Full itinerary in the images. Join online or in person and help us spread the word!

#OAWeek #OpenScience #OpenResearchInformation
OA Week itinerary – Monday and Tuesday. Three sessions on Monday (online and in person) and one on Tuesday. Icons indicate formats; yellow and purple Barcelona Declaration style. OA Week itinerary – Wednesday. Four sessions (mixed formats). Same timeline design and tagline “one destination: open research information.” OA Week itinerary – Thursday and Friday. One online session on Thursday, two on Friday (online and in person). Consistent visual style with the previous slides.
October 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
msphelps.bsky.social
Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information - Who we are in 3 minutes!

▶️ Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmbt...

@barcelonadori.bsky.social
Barcelona Declaration: Who we are
YouTube video by Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information
www.youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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barcelonadori.bsky.social
1/2 Honoured to be shortlisted for the Leo Waaijers Open Science Award 🏆✨

This recognises our work toward open, trusted, high-quality research information

Thanks to @ludowaltman.bsky.social (@unileiden.bsky.social @cwtsnl.bsky.social), @msphelps.bsky.social & Cameron Neylon for shaping the vision
October 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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hldejonge.bsky.social
Is there a relationship between the metadata publishers submit to Crossref and the submission systems they use? 🤔

We (w/ @msphelps.bsky.social) analyzed 153 publishers and 4 major systems to find out.

👉 doi.org/10.31222/osf...

#OpenScience #Crossref #OpenMetadata #BarcelonaDeclaration
October 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
msphelps.bsky.social
📢 New preprint w/ @hldejonge.bsky.social ! We explore how manuscript submission systems may affect completeness of open metadata in @crossref.bsky.social . Some systems better support metadata – but tech isn't the only factor.
👉 doi.org/10.31222/osf...
#OpenScience #OpenMetadata #Publishing
Metadata coverage by publisher for abstracts, affiliations, references, funding, ORCIDs and licenses, categorized by their submission system.
October 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
msphelps.bsky.social
The Barcelona Declaration community @barcelonadori.bsky.social is gaining momentum across Latin America 🌎

The thread below summarizes some recent engagements and developments 🧵
barcelonadori.bsky.social Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information @barcelonadori.bsky.social · Sep 25
1/6 La Declaración de Barcelona, más allá de Barcelona: presente en Latinoamérica 🌎

En Chile participamos en Diálogos Abiertos (Wikimedia Chile) y celebramos a Data Observatory como primer firmante 🇨🇱.
Congreso Iberoamericano de Ciencia Abierta 2025
cienciaabierta.info
September 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
msphelps.bsky.social
The Barcelona Declaration community @barcelonadori.bsky.social is gaining momentum across Latin America 🌎

The thread below summarizes some recent engagements and developments 🧵
barcelonadori.bsky.social Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information @barcelonadori.bsky.social · Sep 25
1/6 La Declaración de Barcelona, más allá de Barcelona: presente en Latinoamérica 🌎

En Chile participamos en Diálogos Abiertos (Wikimedia Chile) y celebramos a Data Observatory como primer firmante 🇨🇱.
Congreso Iberoamericano de Ciencia Abierta 2025
cienciaabierta.info
September 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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barcelonadori.bsky.social
🎉 1 year in: @crossref.bsky.social Grant IDs at NWO are surfacing in publications.
@hldejonge.bsky.social on why cleaner funding metadata unlocks discovery, attribution & evaluation.

Read: www.crossref.org/blog/celebra...
Celebrating one year of Crossref Grant IDs at NWO - Crossref
This month marks one year since the Dutch Research Council (NWO) introduced grant IDs—an important milestone in our journey toward more transparent and trackable research funding. We created over 1,60...
www.crossref.org
September 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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richardsever.bsky.social
NLM terminates the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee (LSTRC).

LSTRC was a rather mystical committee that chose which journals did/didn't get into Medline (main route to PubMed). Publishers lived in fear of it as inclusion can make or break a journal www.nlm.nih.gov/medline/medl... 1/3
About the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee (LSTRC)
www.nlm.nih.gov
September 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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mitpress.bsky.social
QSS is now accepting articles that have gone through independent, open peer review via MetaResearch Open Review (MetaROR). The authors of an article on tracking transformative agreements through open metadata shared their experiences using MetaROR's Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model:
The MetaROR Publish-Review-Curate Model: our experience as authors | Open Science NL
As professionals working in open science and scholarly communication reform, we believe in practicing what we preach. That’s why we recently chose to publish an article using the…
www.openscience.nl
September 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
msphelps.bsky.social
Looking forward to the conference - and to discuss the importance and implications of open research information for the STI community! #scientometrics #bibliometrics #researchassessment
barcelonadori.bsky.social Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information @barcelonadori.bsky.social · Sep 2
The Barcelona Declaration heads to stienid2025.bsky.social: “Reconciliation of research and measurement.”

📆On Fri 5 Sept, 14:00–15:00 (BST) at the University of Bristol, join to our in-person session: “Transitioning to open research information — the why, what & how for the STI community.” ⬇️
Social graphic in Barcelona Declaration purple/yellow. Text: “STI-ENID Conference 2025 — Reconciliation of research and measurement. Transitioning to Open Research Information — The Why, What & How. Friday 5 September, 14:00–15:00 (BST), University of Bristol, UK. Learn more: #STIENID2025 · stienid2025.org.” Map of the UK with a pin and caption “Join us in Bristol!”.
September 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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barcelonadori.bsky.social
🇨🇭 Switzerland strengthens its commitment to the Barcelona Declaration!

The University of Zürich has joined @cern.bsky.social and the @swissrn.bsky.social as signatories, showing Switzerland’s growing commitment to open and transparent research information.⬇️
Graphic titled ‘Switzerland and the Barcelona Declaration’. The text notes that three Swiss institutions are already signatories: CERN, University of Zürich, and Swiss Reproducibility Network, highlighting Switzerland’s commitment to open and transparent research information. Below, there is a yellow map of Switzerland with a white cross in the center. At the bottom, there is a call to join in five languages—French, Italian, Romansh, German, and English—alongside the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information logo
August 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
msphelps.bsky.social
This a heartening read - Nonprofit Refuses $1.5M Science Grant Due To New Federal DEI Rules

@carpentries.carpentries.org 💪
August 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
msphelps.bsky.social
You've got mail!

Postcards from the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information - to celebrate the season wherever you are ☀️❄️!

@barcelonadori.bsky.social
barcelonadori.bsky.social Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information @barcelonadori.bsky.social · Aug 12
Greetings from the Barcelona Declaration 📬

Sunny or snowy, we keep going 🌞❄️ From Wellcome to Bologna, all under one umbrella ☂️(or parasol, depending on your season).

📩 Send these postcards to someone who believes in #OpenResearchInformation #CommunityDriven #OpenScience
Summer postcard illustration for the Barcelona Declaration: beach umbrella with chairs, ocean waves, seashells, and a yellow stamp. Text highlights ongoing work from Wellcome signing to Bologna roadmap and translations, connecting people and ideas through National Networks. Winter postcard illustration for the Barcelona Declaration: snow-covered mountains, pine trees, and snowflakes, with a yellow stamp. Text highlights ongoing work from Wellcome signing to Bologna roadmap and translations, connecting people and ideas through National Networks.
August 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM