Creating community awareness of open science practices in phytolith research

[EKaroune]

Project Lead: Emma Karoune

Mentor: Yvan Le Bras

Welcome to OLS-2! This issue will be used to track your project and progress during the program. Please use this checklist over the next few weeks as you start Open Life Science program 🎉.

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Week 1 (31 August - 4 September 2020): Meet your mentor!

• Create an account on GitHub
• Check if you have access to the HackMD notes set up for your meetings with your mentor
• Prepare to meet your mentor(s) by completing a short homework provided in the HackMD notes
• Complete your own copy of the open leadership self-assessment and share it to your mentor
  If you're a group, each teammate should complete this assessment individually. This is here to help you set your own personal goals during the program. No need to share your results, but be ready to share your thoughts with your mentor.
• Make sure you know when and how you'll be meeting with your mentor.

Before Week 2 (7 - 11 September 2020): Cohort Call (Welcome to Open Life Science!)

• Create an issue on the OLS-2 GitHub repository for your OLS work and share the link to your mentor.

• Draft a brief vision statement using your goals

  This lesson from the Open Leadership Training Series (OLTS) might be helpful

• Leave a comment on this issue with your draft vision statement & be ready to share this on the call

• Check the Syllabus for notes and connection info for all the cohort calls.

Before Week 3 (14 - 18 September 2020): Meet your mentor!

• Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their vision statement
• Complete this compare and contrast assignment about current and desired community interactions and value exchanges
• Complete your Open Canvas (instructions, canvas)
• Share a link to your Open Canvas in your GitHub issue
• Start your Roadmap
• Comment on your issue with your draft Roadmap
• Suggest a cohort name at the bottom of the shared notes and vote on your favorite with a +1

Before Week 4 (21 - 25 September 2020): Cohort Call (Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects)

• Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their open canvas.

Week 5 and later

• Create a GitHub repository for your project
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• Invite new contributors to into your work!

This issue is here to help you keep track of work as you start Open Life Science program. Please refer to the OLS-2 Syllabus for more detailed weekly notes and assignments past week 4.

[EKaroune]

The problem I am trying to solve is the lack of use of open science practices in my field, phytolith research, especially concerning reusable data sharing. Raising awareness of how a more open research community could benefit all researchers and improving knowledge of open science using training will help researchers to feel more confident to implement new ways of working. It will also help to build a community to start important collaborative work on drawing up discipline-specific guidelines for data sharing.
I am working open because I want to improve the science in my field to be more transparent and reproducible. At the moment, there is a lack of confidence in the interpretations made using phytolith analysis and I feel that this comes from the closed nature of the community. Data is not shared openly, and methods are not standardised. It’s important to work collaboratively to build robust reproducible methodologies that can then be applied confidently to archaeological studies. This can only be done using an open science approach.

[EKaroune]

You can see my open canvas here : [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l3TtTDpF6XZASACTkeWxY8toXibl3uUPnkAsPwPkGKE/edit?usp=sharing]

[yvanlebras]

Thank you Emma! It seems to me your canvas is not directly accessible, need to ask access. Is it normal (just to be sure)?

[EKaroune]

Sorry here is an open link, I'll change the github one too. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l3TtTDpF6XZASACTkeWxY8toXibl3uUPnkAsPwPkGKE/edit?usp=sharing <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l3TtTDpF6XZASACTkeWxY8toXibl3uUPnkAsPwPkGKE/edit?usp=sharing> Emma

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On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 11:02 PM Yvan Le Bras ***@***.***> wrote: Thank you Emma! It seems to me your canvas is not directly accessible, need to ask access. Is it normal (just to be sure)? — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#11 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AN3UCZWQ5QIKWFDFM2TENLLSGEYXBANCNFSM4RM4TRUA> .

-- Dr Emma Karoune

[EKaroune]

Here is my first attempt at my road map. I'm looking for comments on how to improve it and I will also wait until the github session this week to add it to my project page so that it get's set up properly!

Project summary:
After completing a project to assess open science practices in phytolith research ([https://osf.io/qp68n/]), I am working to create community awareness of the issues found. My assessment found a general lack of use of open science practices, especially concerning reusable data sharing. The sharing of data and metadata was found to need improvement, and this can only be done with collaboration from researchers in this field. There is also a need to improve open access to publications for all so that our research community is more inclusive.
Raising awareness of how a more open research community could benefit all researchers and improving knowledge of open science using training will help researchers to feel more confident to implement new ways of working. It will also help to build a community to start important collaborative work on drawing up discipline-specific guidelines for data sharing.

How to get involved:
I am looking for collaborators in all parts of this project, so if you want to get involved please email me: [email protected]

Here are the milestones that I am currently working towards:
Milestone 1: Raising awareness through talks/blogs - short term
Talks:
• Association of Environmental Archaeology (AEA) autumn webinar series on sustainability – 15th September 2020
• Palaeopercs early career online series – 24th November 2020
• AEA Open Science Spring meeting –
Blogs:
• Find locations for potential blogs and contact organisations – British Ecological Society (PalaeoSIG), International Phytolith Society (IPS).
• Write blog for different organisations.
• Publish blog.

Milestone 2: Establishing a working group for open science - medium term
• Emailing IPS, AEA and BES to look for collaborators.
• Email researchers directly who already work openly to look for supporters of the project and early adopters.
• Plan a first meeting to gather ideas of how to move forward – online
• Plan second meeting for spring AEA meeting - online

Milestone 3: Development of training workshop - medium-term
• Research resources
• Contact relevant bodies – PalaeoSIG/AEA to arrange when this could happen.
• Plan workshop and develop resources
• Look for funding for workshop

Milestone 4: Development of FAIR guidelines for phytolith data – long-term
• Researching other open FAIR data projects
• Literature review on development of FAIR data in life sciences/palaeoecology/archaeology
• Establish working group to start work on guidelines.
• Look for funding for this project – EOSC life science call
• Have meetings to develop guidelines
• Develop resources for implementation of guidelines – online platform for data deposition
• Write article on guidelines
• Give conference talk on guidelines
• Publish article on guidelines

[EKaroune]

I tried Hemingway editor and got grade 12 - It said 5 sentences were very hard to read! I think it is the use of technical words but I can't really change them???

The problem I am trying to solve is the lack of use of open science practices in my field, phytolith research, especially about reusable data sharing. Raising awareness of how a more open research community could benefit all researchers and improving knowledge of open science using training will help researchers to feel more confident to put in place new ways of working. It will also help to build a community to start important collaborative work on drawing up discipline-specific guidelines for data sharing.
I am working open because I want to improve the science in my field to be more transparent and reproducible. At the moment, there is a lack of confidence in the interpretations made using phytolith analysis and I feel that this comes from the closed nature of the community. Data is not shared openly, and methods are not standardised. It’s important to work collaboratively to build robust reproducible methodologies that can then be applied confidently to archaeological studies. This can only be done using an open science approach.

[malvikasharan]

@all-contributors please add @EKaroune for idea and content.

[allcontributors]

@malvikasharan

I've put up a pull request to add @EKaroune! 🎉

[malvikasharan]

@all-contributors please add @yvanlebras for review.

[allcontributors]

@malvikasharan

I've put up a pull request to add @yvanlebras! 🎉

[EKaroune]

Repo is here:
Repo

Readme here:
Readme

Roadmap here:
Roadmap

License: Yo helped me to find a CC BY 4.0 license to add.
License

Here's the link for CC licenses (for intellectual works only) in github: CC licenses

Code of conduct here:
Code of conduct

Phew! I think that's it for now! I've even worked out how to do emoji's in markdown 😃
Here is a good link for that: emoji markdown

[EKaroune]

So I am progressing well with my github page, check it out here

[yvanlebras]

Ouhahouhou, really nice !! Amazing !

[EKaroune]

I have written a blog about my research into open science practices for the International Phytolith Society.

See the blog here

[EKaroune]

So I've become a bit obsessed with my new found webpage building skills - here's a new blog I have started!