What is PathOS?
This page summarizes the essential findings of CIS-CNRS during its participation to the PathOS Horizon Europe WIDERA project, also presented on a dedicated EU, CIS, and PathOS project page. CIS’ main task in PathOS is to study the uses and impacts of three french open science platforms, OpenEdition, HAL and RechercheDataGouv through their connexion logs. Our dedicated format to adress technical issues related to log analysis are datasprints.
Our methodology will be appraised by external experts during three focus groups, which are 2 hours recorded discussion sessions. We also contributed to impact indicators for the open science indicators handbook and to a semi-automatized litterature review on the impact of Open Science. In the course of the project, we also wrote sidenotes about epistemological questions that arise from our work on PathOS and which echo with the SAPA program.
Summary and useful links
| On this page | PathOS in a nutshell | Detailed CNRS contribution to the WPs |
| Datasprints | #1 | #2 | #3 |
| Focus Groups | #1 | #2 | #3 |
| Open Science Indicator Handbook | Citizen Science | Diversity | Extra-academic collaborations | Uptake in and impact onto societal issues | Uptake in the legal sector | |
| Litterature Review | Scoping review of the existing litterature on Open Science Impact | Article (comming soon) |
| Sidenotes | On the interrelation between Open Data and Open Science Virtues and limits of impact assessment Infrastructures, ecosystems and platformization [SAPA 1/9] The sociological raisons d’être of OECD, UN and EU jargon |
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PathOS in a nutshell ↑
PathOS is a EU funded 2M€+ research project, aiming at “identifying and document the Open Science Impact Pathways, i.e., the possible paths that connect the input to output, outcome and impact, including the causal mechanisms linking them and the existing enabling or blocking factors. Impact pathways respond to the need not only to estimate and measure net effects of a policy intervention, but to provide explanations why and how impacts occur”.
Running from 09/01/2022 to 08/31/2025, it includes a fixed-term early stage researcher contract from 01/01/2023 to 12/31/2024 at CNRS and a budget of 19k€ for data analysis services, completed by an additionnal 7k€ funding from French National Fund of Open Science.
The project involves 8 partners, including sociologists, infrastructure developers, scientometricians, data scientists, experts in natural language processing, impact measurement, and public policy evaluation. It spans 6 countries: Greece, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Belgium, and France.
The project encompasses seven work packages, CNRS taking part in four of them.
Detailed CNRS contribution to PathOS Workpackages
| WP | Description | CIS-CNRS contribution |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Impact Pathways (overall causality narrative) | CIS-CNRS contributes to a scoping review of existing litterature on the impact of Open Science, “guided by the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) methodological framework, and limited to works in English since 2000 found in academic databases (Web of Science, Scopus) of peer-reviewed literature” as said in deliverable explaining the methodology and first results. |
| 2 | Methodology, tools, and indicators | CIS-CNRS is lead of societal impact indicators working group. Together with KNOW and Athena RC, CNRS is co-designing general societal impact categories, indicators, metrics, and methods to implement them. It contributes to the handbook of open science indicators, two full descriptions having been drafted as of oct. 2022 : “Citizen science indicators” & “Uptake & impact on societal issues” . |
| 3 | Case studies | CIS-CNRS main engagement within the PathOS project is to lead a case study about three french OS platforms : HAL, OpenEdition and RechercheDataGouv in order to assess the uptake and impact of the OS resources they offer on different societal issues. We collaborate with Ouestware, our data analysis partner, as well as other French actors in the field of Open Science who share similar research interests, particularly in the analysis of user behavior and connection logs. Given the technical complexity of this task and the diverse range of stakeholders involved, we have chosen to organize our work around four dedicated full-day datasprints. We will have our approach evaluated and receive advice from external open science experts during three focus groups. We have selected individuals with diverse backgrounds and technical skills to ensure a thorough assessment and multi-dimensional viewpoint, given the heterogeneous nature of societal impact. |
| 4 | Cost-benefit analysis | CIS-CNRS is not involved in this WP, but is currently helping CSIL to gather financial information about OpenEdition and HAL for them to perform a CBA on those two platforms. The resuts of the CBA could possibly be crossed with the results of CIS-CNRS case study on those platforms. |
| 5 | Networking & dissemination | WP5 aims to attain a long-term impact of the project by targetting policy makers/officers, Research Performing Organization (RPO) leaders, research managers, libraries, research infrastructures, open science experts, R&I impact evaluators. CNRS-CIS indirectly contributes to this WP by : 1. inviting a vast range of stakeholders of OS in our focus groups (scholars from various disciplines, societal actors, RFO staff, editors) and taking advantage of the FGs to disseminate key notions and findings of PathOS. 2. editing the “petite encyclopédie de la science ouverte”, which disseminates key notion on OS by provinding 10 bilingual reports on an editorialized website, including PathOS latest findings. 3. running a 10-seminar cycle called SAvoirs PArtagés on the societal uptake, usage, production of OS and practices of open knowledge, which also involves a great variety of stakeholders, with systematic presentation of PathOS and running focus on some specific aspects of it |
| 6 | Management | No CNRS contribution |
| 7 | Ethics | No CNRS contribution |
