This project explores the question "what are the cybernetic principles of metasystems?" by analysing the sociological, technical, and philosophical characteristics of information ecosystems. Information ecosystems are defined as all the processes and structures, agents and entities, involved in the creation, dissemination, and access to information (Kuehn, 2023). The practice of science, its associated informational outputs, actors such as researchers or administrative personnel, the physical and institutional structures in which the practice of science is carried out, are all elements that jointly create an information ecosystem. By analyzing and formalizing the interdisciplinary body of theory around the concept of an ecosystem, we can better understand what it means for the practice of science to be open/sealed; in what way? To who? Should it always and indiscriminately be open? How can open science create knowledge?