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@AmyeKenall

Development Manager, Open Data

BioMed Central

Clarifying Contributorship through Digital Badges Force 2015, Oxford

What’s the problem?

Recognising the various ways in which

researchers contribute to a study.

Not just Credit…

Transparency in authorship.

Beyond Open Access

Redefining “open”

Digital Credentials

Not Just an Image!

Who is involved?

Where we’re at

• MozFest and GitHub Repo

• Prototype to be built this year

• Key stakeholder feedback and

community

How will this work?

Get Involved Take a look at the Open Contributorship

Badges planning GitHub repo:

https://github.com/mozillascience/Pa

perBadger/issues/2

Read More

• http://mozillascience.org/contributorship-

badges-a-new-project/

• http://www.nature.com/news/publishing-credit-

where-credit-is-due-1.15033

• http://news.sciencemag.org/scientific-

community/2014/11/could-digital-badges-clarify-

roles-co-authors

Questions?

Amye Kenall

Development Manager (Open Data), BioMed Central

@AmyeKenall (also @OpenDataBMC)

amye.kenall@biomedcentral.com