report · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
One Health projects routinely unite diverse groups, such as veterinary epidemiologists, field ecologists, anthropologists, and livestock-keeping communities. These different contributors hold distinct standards of adequate evidence that are valid within their respective practices but often do not align. Standard operational documents, including terms of reference, data management plans, and consortium agreements, address roles, data storage, and rights, yet fail to address what counts as evidence or how evidential disagreements will be resolved. To address this gap, the epistemic charter is proposed as a concise instrument drafted at the beginning of a project. Created collaboratively by the project participants, this document explicitly records the evidential standards of each party and protocols for conflicting perspectives. It is designed to be updated at scheduled intervals throughout the project lifecycle and published alongside the formal study protocol.
Multidisciplinary collaborations often face unacknowledged conflicts when team members define valid proof differently. By creating a dedicated tool to state and align these expectations from the beginning, initiatives involving diverse scientific fields and community partners can better navigate disagreements, improve collaboration, and maintain clarity regarding how project evidence is understood and applied.
The epistemic charter serves as a project governance tool that can be used by multidisciplinary research consortia, programme managers, and funding organisations. While it offers a procedural method ready for immediate application in planning and managing collaborative ventures, the abstract does not indicate a commercialisation pathway or direct commercial market.
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One Health projects bring together parties who do not agree about what counts as adequate evidence. A veterinary epidemiologist, a field ecologist, an anthropologist and a community of livestock keepers each hold standards that are reasonable within their own practice and that do not transfer intact to the others. Existing project documents do not record this. Terms of reference allocate roles. Data management plans specify how data will be stored. Consortium agreements distribute rights. None of them asks what each party will accept as evidence, or what happens when those answers conflict. The epistemic charter is a short document, produced at project inception, that records exactly that. It is completed by the parties themselves, revised at defined points, and published alongside the protocol.
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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22125642
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