Studying infrastructures for Open Sience
Teresa Gomez-Diaz (CNRS/LIGM), may 2015

Our goal is to study the main features in the design and construction of
infrastructures for open access.

Infrastructures have usually three main components: teams and their
governance, proposed services, servers and interfaces to make services
available. They also have funders and stakeholders to provide resources, a
target public, a problem to be addressed.

Infrastructures for open science provide visibility and accessibility to the
research production, mainly for articles, software and data. By linking the
research software and data that have been part of the building of a research
result, they increase the reproductibility of research and its free/open
access. 

In this study we propose a somehow "ideal" but flexible infrastructure to
improve access to, and dissemination of, the open science production.

In this infrastructure, designers, funders and decision makers can decide the
level at which services may be delivered to target scholar and research
communities, which are the required resources. They participate to the
governance and the organization of the teams needed to run the services, to
build a community and to ensure a good level of
of collaboration among participating members.

In this way we study the main components in the design of infrastructures for
open science and their interactions.