Proposal: Make Your Tools, Scripts and Analyses Open and more FAIR

[mkuzak]

Title of the session: Make Your Tools, Scripts and Analyses Open and more FAIR

Session details

• Session type: skill-up

• Keywords: Research Software, Open Science, Reproducible Research, FAIR,

• Permission to record this session: Yes

Abstract

Open science has rapidly gained interest and importance across the academic world and society. It will require researchers to be open and transparent in sharing their methods, analyses and raw and published data, so these can be reused, verified or reproduced by a wider audience. In the humanities and social sciences, research software (including code, scripts, tools, algorithms) often is an integral part of the methodological process, so there is a need for guidelines on making these open as well. The Netherlands eScience Center and DANS launched a website (fair-software.eu) with five practical recommendations that help researchers to make their software more FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). The site serves as a signpost for researchers to get actionable advice on how to get this adventure started. The general idea of the session is that workshop participants bring their code, and the session organizers will help participants to improve the openness and FAIRness of their software or scripts using the new website as guidance.

Participants of this session will
(i) learn about the fair-software.eu website, (ii) learn about five things they can do to improve FAIRness of their software, (iii) put their code in the open, (iv) select the license, (v) find relevant software registry, (vi) make their software citable and (vii) select the quality checklist that fits their purpose.
The session addresses the challenges in opening up research software and facilitation of software sustainability.

Personal details

• Name or pseudo name of the session lead: Mateusz Kuzak

• Co-leads' names (we recommend involving 2 helpers/co-leads): Jurriaan Spaaks, Carlos Martinez

• Email or other ways to contact the session leads/co-leads: @mkuzak

• Country of residence and/or compatible Time Zones (provide options): Europe

• Would you like to present this multiple times, in other time zones: can present multiple times

• Would you like to volunteer to be listed as a wrangler/host for your time zone: Yes

Is there any help you would like to invite from the community? Please provide below in bullet points.

• any one who would like to join help running the session

• Other comments: nope

[ousodaniel]

@mkuzak thanks for your interest in regional hosting, check out the details here please. We'd love to see you sign up. Best

[serahkiburu]

Hi @mkuzak, the organising committee reviewed this session proposal and had this to say:

The Library Carpentry community has had extensive deliberations around FAIR principles in the last year and hence this session is a great addition. In outreach, it will be worth stating that session is open to all (not only EU folks) to avoid miscommunication that may be cause by ".eu" URL. The skill-up is about code handling for openness and reproducibility which aligns well with the best coding practises taught by the carpentries. We commend the session leads for clearly describing their goals and expectation from the learners.

Really excited for your session, and more details i.e. around scheduling will be shared with you in the coming days. Let me know if I can answer any questions or clarify anything for the time being.