TRANSPOSE - a user-editable database of scholarly journal practices

[jpolka]

[ Project Contact ] @jpolka, @tonyR-H, @garymcdowell [ GitHub Repo ] https://github.com/transpose-publishing/policies-database [ Track ] Openness, [ Location ] Boston, MA (GMT-4) [ Coach ] @gilbertslade

Description

We will build a user-editable database of journal practices relating to the openness of peer review, the recognition of early career researchers who contribute to peer review, and detailed policies on preprinting.

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[dwhly]

Hi @jpolka! Great to see you here. Just tagging this project as related to the Joint Roadmap effort for Open Science Tools (https://github.com/mozilla/global-sprint/issues/285). Synergies! (Perhaps ASAPbio might join as a member? jrost.org) Thanks for putting this together, interested to see what comes out of it.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

@jpolka Curious to find out more about your plans for making that database user editable. Have you looked into wikis, and specifically Wikibase? Overview of current affairs is here.

[jpolka]

Thanks @Daniel-Mietchen - Wikidata was one of the first things we talked about, but our data fields are not all very well-defined yet - lots of them would contain policy quotes, etc (see discussion). I didn't know about Wikibase! Our current plan, devised by @dhimmel (who might have thoughts on this?), is to create a YAML file for each journal in GitHub and use continuous integration to visualize them. cc @tonyR-H

Also thanks @dwhly - I've sent an email :)

[jpolka]

This is ready to be featured on Mozilla Pulse

[abbycabs]

Nice work! Pulsed: https://www.mozillapulse.org/entry/809 🎉