Many sectors, like finance, medicine, manufacturing, and education, use blockchain applications to profit from the unique bundle of characteristics of this technology. Blockchain technology (BT) promises benefits in trustability, collaboration, organization, identification, credibility, and transparency. In this paper, we conduct an analysis in which we show how open science can benefit from this technology and its properties. For this, we determined the requirements of an open science ecosystem and compared them with the characteristics of BT to prove that the technology suits as an infrastructure. We also review literature and promising blockchain-based projects for open science to describe the current research situation. To this end, we examine the projects in particular for their relevance and contribution to open science and categorize them afterwards according to their primary purpose. Several of them already provide functionalities that can have a positive impact on current research workflows. So, BT offers promising possibilities for its use in science, but why is it then not used on a large-scale in that area? To answer this question, we point out various shortcomings, challenges, unanswered questions, and research potentials that we found in the literature and identified during our analysis. These topics shall serve as starting points for future research to foster the BT for open science and beyond, especially in the long-term.
The licensing of creative work is of broad and current interest. The European Commission proposes that when uploading a licensed digital work, the uploader should be checked by the system that one has the necessary rights. Technically this law is difficult to implement, as images with different intentions are shared, and even small changes like watermarks make it difficult to reveal similarities. The characteristics of distributed ledger technology could provide excellent support for the licensing and management of the rights of use. In this work, non-technical and technical criteria are defined to achieve an overview of the state-of-the-art solutions in the field of blockchain-based licensing platforms. Based on the criteria, different licensing platforms are reviewed, and the results are presented in a comparison matrix.
ZusammenfassungDieser Beitrag befasst sich mit der Innovationsfähigkeit der öffentlichen Verwaltung in Deutschland und den damit verbundenen Herausforderungen und Treibern. Auf der Basis semistrukturierter Interviews mit Politiker:innen und Führungskräften der Hamburger Verwaltung und der Sichtung und Einordnung wissenschaftlicher Literatur wurde ein Rahmenkonzept zur Gestaltung des Innovationsprozesses in der Verwaltungsdomäne entwickelt. Die Phasen des Rahmenkonzepts werden durch verschiedene IT-Lösungen, wie unter anderem einem übergreifenden Ideenmanagementsystem, gestützt. Zur vereinfachten Auswahl passgenauer Anwendungen, wurden in einer Marktanalyse verfügbare Ideenmanagementsysteme und Online-Whiteboards gesammelt und anhand vorab formulierter Bewertungskriterien ausgewertet. Das Rahmenkonzept und die ausgewählten IT-Lösungen wurden durch zwei halbtägige Workshops mit Bürger:innen und Mitarbeiter:innen der Hamburger Verwaltung erprobt und evaluiert. Die Ergebnisse bestätigen die Eignung der Anwendungen und im Ansatz die Praktikabilität des entwickelten Rahmenkonzepts für den Innovationsprozess in der öffentlichen Verwaltung.
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