prof. Mgr. Václav Cvrček, Ph.D. ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Institute of the Czech National Corpus Faculty of Arts  ORCID: 0000-0003-3977-2393 [ URL "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3977-2393"] ResearchID: J-7184-2017 GitHub: vaclavcvrcek [ URL "https://github.com/vaclavcvrcek"] Twitter: @CvrcekV [ URL "https://twitter.com/CvrcekV"] ****************************************************************************************** * What led you to open science, and how did your relationship with open science develop? ****************************************************************************************** I have actually had a positive approach to open science ever since the beginning of my wor National Corpus project at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. As a research infrastr National Corpus strives to create and make accessible extensive databases of texts intende (linguistic, literary, historical, etc.). The concept of language corpora, as it has been world since the 1960s, has been relatively close to open science since the beginning, beca that the enormous effort that you put into creating a collection of hundreds of millions o be wasted by keeping the result – a language corpus – in a vault and making it available o group of its creators.  ****************************************************************************************** * What do you get out of open science on a daily basis? ****************************************************************************************** This is primarily work with publicly available language resources which we have a large ra at the Czech National Corpus (see www.korpus.cz [ URL "https://www.korpus.cz"] ). I am gla in the implementation team on a policy of maximum openness, and if the laws and copyrights to provide data to as many users as possible with a minimum of restrictions (e.g. with fre Unfortunately, there are still relatively restrictive rules in the Czech Republic regardin texts for academic and pedagogical purposes, so it is definitely not as we would like in a ****************************************************************************************** * Why is openness in science important to you (what are the benefits)? ****************************************************************************************** There are several advantages, and with the J. Chromý team, we have tried to describe them more detail for linguistics in the joint article Linguistics as an open and transparent di "http://nase-rec.ujc.cas.cz/archiv.php?lang=en&art=8606"] , Naše řeč 104(1). Among the mai would mention the following: synergy – data created by someone can still be useful in othe replicability of research – verification of results is key to the healthy development of a ****************************************************************************************** * What would you recommend to colleagues who want to use open science principles for their ****************************************************************************************** Most importantly, don’t be afraid. It’s easier than it may seem. Services such as OSF.io o repositories are very intuitive today, and storing data there does not take more time than cleaning out your own hard drive. In addition, it pays off whenever you need to return to data.   The second important aspect is that sharing the knowledge we create in our work is our mis reason, we publish articles and monographs. It’s the same with sharing data, procedures, a only difference is that we give colleagues and the public more opportunities to look into ****************************************************************************************** * In your opinion, what obstacles must one overcome so that open science can become common ****************************************************************************************** I think the biggest obstacle is still mistrust. From some of my colleagues’ reactions, I h impression that they are afraid that someone will call them out for mistakes or that someo some great result (a diamond hidden in the data). In my opinion, both concerns are strange make mistakes, and if they are not intentional (falsifying research), informing about a mi dishonest. It is the only way our knowledge can move forward. It is not pleasant for anyon that they were wrong, but that belongs to our profession. The second concern is, in my opi ground-breaking discoveries from data that have already been used once will only succeed i with some other data or if we apply a radically different analytical view or method. Howev assume considerable added value, and it is definitely not “without work”. We should rather we have helped make a significant discovery. ****************************************************************************************** * What does open science mean to you in one sentence? ****************************************************************************************** For me, open science is especially an appeal for greater humility towards the scientific m effort to reproduce our knowledge of the world.