Shaping Openness

in Education, Science and Society

Axel Dürkop. Philosopher, theater maker, software developer

“For an open and democratic society, I actively shape free software, participatory education and an independent internet from an informatic, philosophical and artistic perspective through code, text and event formats.”

Experience & Skills

Subjects & Interests

Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS), Open Education, Open Science, Collaborate and Participate, Read, Write and Publish, Ethics and Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Teaching and Learning

Coding & Technologies

360°-developer for 20 years; Linux, LaTeX, Python, JavaScript, Django, Vue.js, GitLab, Docker, static site generators (Pandoc, Hugo, MkDocs, Quarto), internet and software architecture, machine learning & AI

Teaching & Design

Design of open socio-technical systems, workflows and formats in research and education; introduction to computer science for vocational school teachers

Talks & Workshops

Keynote: The Hidden Costs and Potential Benefits of AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) could save the climate, advance the energy transition, boost the economy, significantly improve human …

24. Oct 2024 ligeti zentrum, Hamburg

Keynote: The Hidden Costs and Potential Benefits of AI

Presentation: Collaborative Content Creation with HedgeDoc

The online writing tool HedgeDoc serves well in teaching and research in many ways. At #OER22 in London, I will present how it works and how I use it in teaching with a pre-produced video.

27. Apr 2022 17:40:00 ECT Association for Learning Technology (ALT), London (online)

Presentation: Collaborative Content Creation with HedgeDoc

Short presentation of the Hop-on translation workflow

As part of the Open and Inclusive Access to Research conference I have the opportunity to present a project from recent years. As part of Hop-on (2015/16) I developed a semi-automatic translation workflow based on Markdown, GitLab, Docker, GitBook and the paid service Crowdin.

8. Nov 2021 15:00:00 ECT — 16:15:00 ECT online

Short presentation of the Hop-on translation workflow

SiSoPub: 1st Workshop

The networking workshop of the newly founded Single Source Publishing Community aims to bring together actors from different institutes …

11. Oct 2021 14:00:00 ECT — 16:30:00 ECT Online

Collaborative research and development with GitLab

With platforms such as GitHub or GitLab, decentralized, interdisciplinary teams can work together on code and text projects. This form …

22. Apr 2021 09:00:00 ECT — 12:00:00 ECT TU Hamburg

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Projects

Single Source Publishing Community

Network of actors working on socio-technical systems for scientific writing and publishing.

Co-Initiator | since 2021

Shaping Openness

Shaping Openness - The Show on Code, Architecture and Tools in Research and Education

Inventor and showmaster

Zocurelia

A browser tool to increase the fun of reading together in distributed communities

Inventor and developer

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Recent Publications

Axel Dürkop. Philosopher, theater maker, software developer (2020). Single-Source-Publishing with Swapfire und OJS. Dürkop, A., Meinecke, I., Boxhammer, T., Hagen, F. & Krewinkel, A. (2020). Single-Source-Publishing mit Swapfire und OJS. Open-access-tage 2020 (online). Gehalten auf der Open-Access-Tage 2020, Bielefeld. https://doi.org/10.15480/882.2902.

Project

Axel Dürkop. Philosopher, theater maker, software developer (2020). Online teaching of project-based learning courses: issues, challenges and outcomes. Kuladinithi, K., Fisser, L., Fuger, K., Stolpmann, D., Vatandas, Z., Timm-Giel, A. et al. (2020). Online teaching of project-based learning courses: issues, challenges and outcomes. ACM SIGCOMM 2020. https://doi.org/10.15480/882.2863.

Project

Axel Dürkop. Philosopher, theater maker, software developer (2020). Zocurelia - Zotero Curated Reading Lists Annotated (Software). Dürkop, A. (2020). Zocurelia - Zotero Curated Reading Lists Annotated. Zenodo 2020, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3687258.

Code Project

Axel Dürkop. Philosopher, theater maker, software developer (2019). Embedding Openness in the Design Process of Web-based Learning Arrangements. Dürkop, A. (2019). Embedding Openness in the Design Process of Web- based Learning Arrangements. OPINE 2019, Frankfurt a.M.: Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3529579.

PDF Project

Axel Dürkop. Philosopher, theater maker, software developer (2019). Living Openness: Collaborative Writing and Publishing while Respecting the Values of Open Science. Dürkop, A., Hagen, F. & Meinecke, I. (2019). Offenheit leben: Kollaboratives Schreiben und Publizieren unter Berücksichtigung der Werte von Open Science. Postervorstellung gehalten auf den Open-Access-Tagen 2019, Hannover. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3267474.

Poster

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