Zotero offers the possibility to synchronize your documents on a WebDAV server. This article will show you how you can setup a WebDAV server on heroku, for development and tests purposes around the Zotero platform.
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It is common to deploy web applications into the cloud. It is, however, much less to deploy them on your customer’s server too. Let’s see how we achieved that.
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The way research is done has greatly evolved those last years. In the 21st century, scientists are more collaborative than ever. It includes more opening by contributing to the different components of the Open Science movement, but also more real-time collaboration through the social web. Those actions are not only aimed at the scientific community, but also at the public that is more and more involved by scientists trough crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. All this lead to what is called the Science 2.0.
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Thanks to the Open Access movement, dissemination and accessibility of scientific publications have greatly evolved those last decades. Particularly related to the progress of online technologies, this evolution responds to the high demand of scientists to enhance the spreading of research results. This evolution can be assess through different statistics provided by key actors in this domain. As the Open Access movement begins with the green way of Open Access more statistics are provided for it.
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For years, amateur scientists have greatly contributed to the growth of science by measuring, collecting, and sharing raw and/or processed data with the scientific community. This involvement of the public is called ″citizen science″. The advent of technology provides more opportunities for citizen to involve themselves in this process, but also more ways for scientists to mobilize them. Websites, mobile applications, and serious games are good examples of tools used in the digital age for the public participation in science.
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French actor in the Open Science movement, HackYourPhD aims to fulfill the gap between the research world and the society. Coming from the Parisian Science&Web sphere and the OuiShare community, HackYourPhD gathers and shares information to promote the new practices arising in science.
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Nowadays scientific research need increasing computing solutions. Statistical analysis or data modeling are some examples of scientific activities requiring more computing tools. To enhance the growth of science and contribute to the Open Science movement, those tools should be accessible, modifiable and reusable without any restrictions by as many researchers as possible. These are notably key conditions to ensure the reproducibility of a study. The Free software and Open Source movements greatly contribute to the lifting of these restrictions by providing licenses allowing to do so.
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