Abstract

The current openness trend includes concepts such as transparency, democracy, sharing, collective, free, common, or commons, and working areas such as open access, open data, open linked data, dataset curation, open content, open research, open education, open innovation, or open knowledge. All these issues were addressed in the 13th Jornadas españolas de documentación (Fesabid 2015, 28-29 May, Gijón, Spain). The conference offered 3 tracks: 1) Public information, open data and collections: transparent administration and shared culture; 2) Open research: from open access to open data; and 3) Open education and new skills: reactivating the educational role of libraries and information services.

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Abstract in English language: Initiatives that are calling for transparency, open and easy access to information (of academic, administrative or any other origin) are gaining momentum and are beginning to differentiate more and more. The claims range from Free Access to information to Open Access according to the principles of the Open Source community. Some initiatives focus more on transparency rather than on openness, such as the whistleblower platform Wikileaks, while others (e.g. Open Government and Open Access to Research Data) combine the demands for transparency and openness or focus on the provision of non-proprietary information (like the geodata project OpenStreetMap or Open Metrics concepts in the scientific area). Twelve authors from different Open Data projects and from the context of Open Access to scientific information, Open Science, journalism and law analyze the Open Initiatives and discuss their common limitations as well as radical concepts of Openness such as WikiLeaks and Anonymous. Abstract in German language: Initiativen, die Transparenz, offenen und möglichst einfachen Zugang zu Informationen, etwa in Wissenschaft und Verwaltung fordern und herstellen, gewinnen rasant an Bedeutung und beginnen sich immer weiter zu differenzieren. Die Forderungen reichen von freiem (im Sinne von kostenlosem) Zugang zu Informationen bis hin zu offenem Zugang analog den Prinzipien der Open Source Community. Manche Initiativen und Phänomene fokussieren stärker auf Transparenz als auf Offenheit, wie z.B. die Whistleblower-Plattform Wikileaks, während wiederum andere (z.B. Open Government oder Open Access zu Forschungsdaten) die Forderungen nach Transparenz und Offenheit kombinieren oder sich an der Bereitstellung nicht-proprietärer Informationen versuchen (wie das Geodaten-Projekt OpenStreetMap oder die Open Metrics Konzepte im Wissenschaftskontext). Zwölf Autorinnen und Autoren aus Open Data Projekten und aus den Bereichen Open Access, Open Science, Journalismus und Recht beschreiben und analysieren die besagten und andere Open Initiatives, diskutieren deren Gemeinsamkeiten und Grenzen sowie radikale Offenheitskonzepte wie WikiLeaks und Anonymous.