Create online database of Open Science resources

[merriam]

The grand goal of the project looks more and more like a full database of resources for open science. It would need to a searchable, sortable database with a flexible schema. For example, a NoSQL database of some sort.

Most resources would need the following data: Basic Type: Organization, Project, Conference, Lecture, etc. Contact info including URL, original content date, last edit date, last confirmed date

Organizations: Name including abbreviations, logo, slogan Legal status, approximate membership, founders and primary donors, contact info, focus, domain (or "cross diciplinary")

Projects: Contributors sought, e.g., "in house", "post-docs", "citizen scientists" Domain, scope, short and long summaries, Name, contact info,

If the project goes this way, I expect discussions about schema will continue for the life of the project.

[aleimba]

I have not enough experience with databases to chime in here. However, I would like to follow the proven Software Carpentry (SWC, http://software-carpentry.org/) and Data Carpentry (http://www.datacarpentry.org/) workflows with the material hosted on GitHub as markdown. See e.g. the SWC lessons here: http://software-carpentry.org/lessons/. The material is then directly used for GitHub pages.

Such a scheme hopefully lowers the threshold for contributions. See also issue #27.

[konrad]

While I do not doubt that might be useful I personally would speak against such a collection of as part of this project. The main aim should be to compile (timeless) core principles. Maintaining the content of database would be out of scope. Maybe an option for a later spin-off.

[merriam]

@aleimba brings up the issue of making it easy for people to contribute; hence the wish for a good online database tool with a simple web interface. Unfortunately, contributions to long lists in GitHub or on Wikipedia tend to become increasingly intimidating as the lists grow. A comment thread has the lowest technical barrier for a new contributor and the highest load for an approver or editor. A good database web page would provide a low technical barrier for a new contributor and a low load for an approver or editor.

@konrad suggests a compilation of timeless principles. To date, there is no single agreed upon truth but a continuously deepingly understanding of the issues. There are the Budapest Open Access Initiative Statement of Principles, the Panton Principles, and more each day. Having a list of these in a database would appear to be a good start. More discussion might create an additional list.

[aleimba]

For all topic suggestions we have an etherpad collecting material and ideas: https://pad.okfn.org/p/OpenScience101topicsuggestions

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[Daniel-Mietchen]

For an example of how such a collection of resources on a topic might look like, see https://www.biocatalogue.org/ .

[RomanGurinovich]

Promo site for the researchers to go open

http://whyopenresearch.org/