Create a Navigable Corpus of Open Science Literature

[reeseIngraham]

There is a wide range of open science-related literature and resources scattered across many locations. Your challenge will be to create a centralized, easily searchable database of the literature, as well as writing Natural Language Processing algorithms to analyze trends in the open science literature, as well as areas where more work is needed. Feel free to create a toy version using the collection of open source publications we have in our assets folder

[PeerHerholz]

It would be cool if this could be integrated with e.g. a Zotero library where all publications will be stored/annotated and dash boards/apps that allow for interactive search and literature submission.

[jmunroe]

Perhaps I am just looking in all the wrong spots, but are there any browsible repositories of examples demonstrating "open science" in practice? I can find resources (such as those in referenced in the assets/ directory) about tools to use for open science, articles/reports/presentations about the benefits of open science, and studies of how much open access literature has been published. But, I am surprised by my inablity to find collections of examples of projects that have actually demonstrate "open science".

Organizations like Center For Open Science host projects like the Open Science Framework that have thousands of "projects" listed but it is not clear to me which projects are fully filled out projects that demonstrate best practices in open science, which are just data dumps from an article with a data availability statement, or are a "green" open access published article. And there seems no east way to tell which projects are just in the early stages and which were just initial attempts at open science that have since been abandoned.

I am optimisitically hoping for something that does "discovery" of open science projects (presumably organized by field of study). For comparison, GitHub provides fairly rich tools for to Explore repositories to discovery projects that might be similar to what I have worked on previously, or perhaps broading trending and currently active. Maybe Zenodo's Communities is close that it provides currated lists of publications, open software, and open datasets but there I'd expect that there should be more links connecting the different parts of a project together. If such a thing doesn't exist yet, are there any projects hoping to build such a thing?

Often, a journal article or a conference presenation is the identifiable and traceble part of "science" for aproject. But, I know that when I applying for funding, I am asked to position my research as either a "research project" or even more broadly as a "research program". Are there "open science" examples of those documents? I could imagine a research project (could be indentified by a single "principal investigator" or broader colloboration of researchers) presenting their open science as a more complete whole where papers and presentations are artifacts of the project, but so are the funding sources and the people involved, the software tools used, and the data sets involved. Perhaps there are only a few researchers willing to share everything, but there must be at least a few examples of research projects that are open in the sense that they are sharing open questions they are seeking to answer and a roadmap of where they think a project is headed. I might have too much an "open source project" mentality here, but should there be at least some "open science" projects out there that are inviting new contributors to join in the effort to pursue the "big questions" that a research project/program is hoping to tackle? Does that exist and I just can't find examples or is that fundamentally impossible for science to be that open?

[EstherPlomp]

@jmunroe: a lot of the open life science projects follow this open from design approach. You can find overview of the projects on their website under the 'previous OLS' header: https://openlifesci.org/.