Open Science Between Technical Feasibility and Epistemological Maturity
Open Science Between Technical Feasibility and Epistemological Maturity

Summary/Abstract: In recent decades, open science has been established as a set of practices through which we can recognize a shift toward a new scientific paradigm, one based on transparency, accessibility, and the possibility of reusing knowledge. In the European research context, it has in fact become a political and financial priority: the openness of data and publications is increasingly being set as a requirement for project funding, ranking of institutions, and the evaluation of academic work. This process in the field of the arts and humanities has been systematically monitored and somewhat shaped by the DARIAH-EU consortium (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities), which has been gradually integrating the principles of open science into its strategic orientation and activities since 2017, particularly through the promotion of ethically grounded, context-sensitive, and infrastructurally supported openness (Edmond and Tóth-Czifra 2023). However, such a paradigm does not pose the same challenges to all disciplines. While openness in the natural sciences, for example, is often considered in terms of technical issues of standardization and reproducibility, in the humanities, especially in ethnology and anthropology, questions of relationships, trust, and the very context in which data is produced and acquires meaning come under the spotlight.

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