Open Science & Libraries 2024: 10 Tips for Conferences & Events

Conferences and other events offer the opportunity to find out about news from open science and related fields and to network. Below you will find some selected events that you might want to put in your diary for 2024. You can find more interesting events in the extensive ZBW MediaTalk Events Calendar. We look forward to hearing from you about other events.

#01: Conference | 29.01. – 30.01. | Berlin (Germany) & Online
Organised by: Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL)
Open Science Days 2024
“Similar to what we did at the last conference, we will not focus on one specific aspect of Open Science, but instead look at recent developments across the broad spectrum.”

#2 – Data Week | 12.02. – 16.02. | Online
Organised by: ICPSR
International Love Data Week 2024: My Kind of Data
“Data is personal. Join to learn about data equity and inclusion, disciplinary communities, and creating a kinder world through data.”

#3 – Open Data Day | 02.03. – 08.03. | Online & all over the world
Organised by: Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), Open Knowledge Network
Open Data Day (ODD)
“The thematic focus will be ‚Open Data for Advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)‘. Following CKAN’s recognition as a digital public good, in 2024 we will explore how open data is a key player in helping to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).”

#4 – Conference | 19.04. | Karlsruhe (Germany)
Organised by: Nationales Institut für Wissenschaftskommunikation (NaWik) GmbH
WissKon24
“The annual conference for communicating scientists offers a platform for exchanging ideas with other people interested in science communication on topics related to science communication.“

#5 – Conference | 24.04. – 26.04. | Paris (France)
Organised by: National Library of France (BnF)
IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2024: Web Archives in Context
“This year we would like to focus on the broader context in which we collect, preserve and provide access to historical websites and social media.”

#6 – Conference | 24.04. – 26.04. | Zadar (Croatia)
Organised by: OPERAS-PLUS project
Operas Conference 2024: Opening collaboration for community-driven scholarly communication
“The conference will address issues relevant to the Social Sciences and Humanities field in the Open Science paradigm involving equitable publishing, multilingualism, bibliodiversity, and other related topics.”

#7 – Conference | 03.06 – 06.06. | Gothenburg (Sweden)
Organised by: Chalmers Library/Department of communication and learning (CLS) and Chalmers E-Commons/Chalmers Data office.
Open Repositories (OR2024): Empowering Global Progress
“OR2024 provides an opportunity to explore and reflect on the ways repositories enable transparent and sustainable information and data.”

#8 – Conference | 04.06. – 07.06. | Hamburg (Germany)
Organised by: Verein Deutscher Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare e.V. (VDB), Berufsverband Information Bibliothek e.V. (BIB)
08 – 112.BiblioCon 2024: „offen.lokal.global“
“The topics of this year: Libraries as location and radius of action – Thinking outside the box: libraries in dialogue – Professional field library – Research-related services and open science – Organization, organizational development, management and services – Collections, repositories, retro-digitization and cultural property (protection).”

#9 – Conference | 21.10. – 23.10. | Berlin (Germany)
Organised by: Leibniz Association, EOSC
Open Science Conference 2024
“The Open Science Conference will join forces with the EOSC Symposium to present the topic of Open Science in Berlin in 2024.”

#10 – Conference | 21.10. – 23.10. | Berlin (Germany)
Organised by: EOSC, NFDI
EOSC Symposium 2024
“450 experts from research and research infrastructures as well as representatives of European science policy are expected in Berlin to present concrete results, discuss new ideas and promote the future of Open Science in Europe. This outstanding event as well as the high thematic synergies have inspired the Open Science Conference to join forces with the EOSC Symposium to present the topic of Open Science in Berlin.”

Events 2024: How to stay up to date

Of course, there will be more exciting conferences, workshops, barcamps and other formats in the course of the year. We will collect these for you in our event calendar on ZBW MediaTalk! To stay up to date on interesting events, you can drop by there or subscribe to our newsletter.

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This text has been partly translated from German.

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