Symposium 8.3 - From Principles to Practice: Building a Reproducible Future for Movement Sciences

Abstract

Open science is transforming biomedical sciences by fostering transparency, reproducibility, and data reuse across laboratories and disciplines. Yet, despite broad consensus on its importance, the community still lacks the infrastructures, standards, and practical guidance needed to make openness routine. This symposium presents three initiatives that address this gap, from identifying community needs to implementing sustainable solutions.

The first presentation (Ariana Ortigas-Vásquez) summarises results from the Internation Society of Biomechanics 2025 data-sharing survey, revealing strong motivation for openness but persistent barriers related to metadata standards, legal uncertainty, and methodological inconsistency. These findings define the community’s urgent priorities.

Building on this evidence, the second talk (Michelle Haas) introduces the MoveD guidelines, an empirically grounded framework for FAIR-compliant data sharing in Swiss movement laboratories. MoveD was developed through nationwide surveys and expert workshops to translate open-science ideals into feasible laboratory practice.

The final presentation (Paul Ritsche) demonstrates how such frameworks can be realised in imaging research through the ORMIR and UMUD initiatives, which establish interoperable standards for musculoskeletal imaging and open ultrasonography databases.

Together, these talks show a coherent path from community insights to actionable infrastructures by illustrating how shared standards can strengthen reproducible, integrative research in sport and health.