New preprint: Thinking like a Business: Reconfiguring relationships to sustain open data infrastructure
May, 2026
Together with Dorothea Strecker, we have published a new preprint exploring how Dryad, a well-known open data infrastructure, has reconfigured relationships and engaged in strategic “business thinking” to work toward financial sustainability. Read more here!
Presentations at the Future of Open Research Conference in Munich
May, 2026
We have two presentations accepted at the Future of Open Research Conference in Munich. Together with Sarah Davies and Laura Koesten (University of Vienna), Kathleen Gregory will discuss what a political economy lens can bring to studying open science. In a separate talk, Kathleen Gregory, Andrew Hoffman, and Louise Bezuidenhout will discuss how considered relationships are a critical element in sustaining open data infrastructure.
Participation in AGU Global Data Convening
March, 2026
Kathleen Gregory participated in a week-long workshop convened by the American Geophysical Union to concretely think about making data infrastructure resilient and sustainable in times of crisis.
Panel session at RDA plenary: Resilience of open science
March, 2026
Louise Bezuidenhout and Kathleen Gregory moderated an expert panel at the RDA plenary, building on insights from an OSNL-funded workshop at Leiden University. Panelists discussed four action areas for resilience: human infrastructure, resilience through redundancy, anticipatory planning, and international coordination.
Keynote presentation at Open Research Week
March, 2026
Drawing on two pieces of ongoing research, Kathleen Gregory gave the closing keynote at Open Research Week 2026. The talk explored what a relational perspective can bring to understanding open research, particularly in terms of research group cultures and sustaining open infrastructures.
Resilience of Open Science: Four Discussion Points, Two Outputs
February, 2026
Building on our successful OSNL-funded workshop in November, we have identified four discussion points to further discussions about resilience in this blogpost. Together with workshop participants, we developed a position statement proposing recommendations for the Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO regarding how to make open science resilient.
New publication in the International Journal on Digital Curation
February, 2026
Stemming from a collaboration at a 2024 Lorentz Workshop, this paper explores questions for knowledge infrastructure managers to consider in thinking about how their infrastructure can sustainably evolve over time.
Welcome Maja Murawka!
January, 2026
Maja will be joining the project as a Masters student in the University of Amsterdam’s Data Science program. She will be co-supervised with Prof. Paul Groth, and will work on developing a model to predict at-risk datasets and grants.
Talk: Data Journeys in Popular Science at Leiden University, Connect & … Series
December, 2025
Kathleen Gregory was invited to speak to the Leiden University research data management community about her work exploring how scholarly data travel to journalistic settings.
Panel presentation and paper at ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
November, 2025
This panel presentation will bring together researchers, practitioners, and experts in open infrastructure to discuss and compare tensions involved in sustaining open infrastructure and to develop a framework to guide future research and areas for intervention
Funding received for upcoming workshop on the resilience of open science
September, 2025
Many thanks to the Open Science Netherlands who will fund an upcoming workshop, moderated by Louise Bezuidenhout and Kathleen Gregory! The workshop will xplore how Open Science, as defined by the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, can be resilient to geopolitical forces. The workshop will take place in Leiden on November 6, 2025 and is open for applications. Read more here.
Keynote presentation at the 10th Anniversary celebration of DataverseNL
September, 2025
Kathleen Gregory was invited to give the keynote presentation at an event commemorating ten years of Dataverse in the Netherlands. This talk drew on ongoing research to explore the resilience of open data infrastructures, such as DataverseNL.
New blogpost: Strength in diversity
April, 2025
Science is facing severe threats in the US, as data are being deleted and grants are being rescinded. In this blogpost, the focal areas of CWTS respond, highlighting how diversity in science is an asset, rather than something to oppose.
New preprint: Sustainability of knowledge infrastructures
March, 2025
Last year, a group of researchers met for one week at an intense, collaborative workshop hosted by the Lorentz Center. Our topic of discussion was to explore how emerging knowledge infrastructures can be evaluated. This preprint, born out of these discussions, poses directions of thinking for knowledge infrastructure managers to consider about sustainability.
Advisory board selected
March, 2025
The advisory board for the Caring for COVID-19 data project has been announced! The board consists of a combination of experts in open data and open infrastructures from academia, governmental agencies, and citizen science, bringing together both practitioners and academics. The board will provide input into the empirical and conceptual design of the project throughout the next three years. We are looking forward to collaborating!
Caring for Covid-19 Data: Sustaining Open Data Infrastructures 