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Goal openresearch.amsterdam

Openresearch.amsterdam is a digital platform for research, knowledge, and innovation about Amsterdam and the metropolitan area. The goal of the platform is to share knowledge, to show relations between different kinds of knowledge, and to work together in research projects.

Openresearch's main principles: a broad definition of research, an insightful research process, accessibility, giving and sharing, open where possible, ownership. Openresearch contributes to the conversation about the meaning of various facts.

Explanation:

  • Broad definition of research: openresearch.amsterdam contains academic research, applied research and design research about Amsterdam and the metropolitan region. Conducting research is looking for an answer to a question; creating new knowledge in a structured process. Searching and exploring can be part of doing research.
  • Insightful research process: in addition to research results, the research process can also be documented - in the workspace for participants in open research - with research proposals, videos, sketches and interim products.
  • Accessible: The platform is for civil servants, researchers and designers in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. The more people who participate, the better.
  • Giving and sharing: people share their research material so that others can use it
  • Open where possible: public information is available at openresearch.amsterdam. Information is in workspaces (password protected), in the space for all participants in openresearch (password protected), and on the internet (public for everyone).
  • Ownership and citation: people own their own pages on the platform and are therefore responsible for the content. Proper citation is used.
  • Conversation about truth: Openresearch contributes to the conversation about the meaning of various facts. Research results are formulated in such a way that people can disagree.
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Icon image: Sport en spel tijdens de Koningsspelen 2017 in West, fotograaf Edwin van Eis, beeldbank Amsterdam