CoNOSC Members discuss knowledge security and Open Science
« Nineteen countries attended the online CoNOSC Members meeting on 19 November 2024. SPARC Europe, as facilitator of CoNOSC, invited Dr Peter Weijland, Programme Director Knowledge Security at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), to address the critical topic of knowledge/information/research security and Open Science. (…)
In anticipation of the December 2024 G7 Conference, where a change to the naming of the FAIR principles will be tabled, there was debate about whether an ‘S’ for ‘Security’ should be added to the acronym ‘FAIR.’ Some members resisted this proposal because security is already specified in the principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of digital assets. Others approved of changing the acronym to ‘FAIRS’ so that security would become more visibly integral to the principles behind Open Science. (…) »
