Crafting an Open Science Resource Kit - What tools do you wish you had at the start of your career in research?

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[ Session Name ] Crafting an Open Science Resource Kit - What tools do you wish you had at the start of your career in research? [ Primary Space ] Open Innovation [ Secondary Space ] Web Literacy

[ Submitter's Name ] Rachael Ainsworth [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester [ Submitter's Github ] @rainsworth

What will happen in your session?

In this session, participants will brainstorm, compile and develop an Open Science Resource Kit. 20 minutes will be spent brainstorming and discussing what this kit might look like and include - what open access, open data and open source tools from around the web would be useful for a researcher to have at the very start of their career? How can we present this information to senior researchers, who may be less experienced with these tools, so they can promote open research practices to their students and research teams? The next 40 minutes will be spent compiling these resources in a collaborative Etherpad and organising/documenting them within a GitHub repository/webpage.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

Many scientific fields are still dominated by closed research practices. It is often difficult to reproduce results and frustrating to build/iterate on the research of others. The reasons for this are diverse, but one prominent issue is a lack of understanding about HOW to work in an open way. The goal of this session is to compile an Open Science Resource Kit general enough for anyone to use, contribute to or adapt. Ideally, it will be pitched at senior researchers so they are best equipped to encourage early career scientists to work openly - in order to successfully mentor the next generation of open science practitioners we also need to target those who advise them.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

This session does not require additional materials beyond a projector and office supplies (paper, pens, post-it notes).

Time needed

60 mins

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[ Facilitator 1 Name ] Rachael Ainsworth [ Facilitator 1 Github ] @rainsworth [ Facilitator 1 Twitter ] @rachaelevelyn

Requirements

• Projector
• Office supplies

[kaodro]

Hi @rainsworth , my name is Kasia and I work on Mozilla’s Internet Health Report. At Mozfest we will be present with an “Internet Research Hub” #618 (last comment) - an easy-going, cozy space for discussions and networking both with us about Internet Health and among researchers themselves.

We also invite anyone who does work in an Internet research field to sign up and present their work at a couple of open display tables we will have in the hub. If you would like to present something in the Hub in addition to your official session, let me know! We will promote these sessions throughout the festival. You can sign up spontaneously with pen and paper on site or if you would like to save a spot beforehand, drop me an email at kasia@mozillafoundation.org with a short description of the session.

In any case, I would like to invite you to pass by the hub and say hi. We will start with an informal "Research and coffee grinder” get-together at the beginning of the festival where people can get to know each other. Space and exact schedule for the Hub are still being decided and I will update you once we know the details. Hope to see you there!