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Title TBA: Revising the Abstract Submission Process.
Academic conferences are among the most prolific scientific activities, yet the current abstract submission and review process has serious limitations. We propose a revised process that would address these limitations, achieve some of the aims of Open Science, and stimulate discussion throughout the entire lifecycle of the scientific work
Open Science in Software Engineering
Open science describes the movement of making any research artefact available
to the public and includes, but is not limited to, open access, open data, and
open source. While open science is becoming generally accepted as a norm in
other scientific disciplines, in software engineering, we are still struggling
in adapting open science to the particularities of our discipline, rendering
progress in our scientific community cumbersome. In this chapter, we reflect
upon the essentials in open science for software engineering including what
open science is, why we should engage in it, and how we should do it. We
particularly draw from our experiences made as conference chairs implementing
open science initiatives and as researchers actively engaging in open science
to critically discuss challenges and pitfalls, and to address more advanced
topics such as how and under which conditions to share preprints, what
infrastructure and licence model to cover, or how do it within the limitations
of different reviewing models, such as double-blind reviewing. Our hope is to
help establishing a common ground and to contribute to make open science a norm
also in software engineering.Comment: Camera-Ready Version of a Chapter published in the book on
Contemporary Empirical Methods in Software Engineering; fixed layout issue
with side-note
The LIGO Open Science Center
The LIGO Open Science Center (LOSC) fulfills LIGO's commitment to release,
archive, and serve LIGO data in a broadly accessible way to the scientific
community and to the public, and to provide the information and tools necessary
to understand and use the data. In August 2014, the LOSC published the full
dataset from Initial LIGO's "S5" run at design sensitivity, the first such
large-scale release and a valuable testbed to explore the use of LIGO data by
non-LIGO researchers and by the public, and to help teach gravitational-wave
data analysis to students across the world. In addition to serving the S5 data,
the LOSC web portal (losc.ligo.org) now offers documentation, data-location and
data-quality queries, tutorials and example code, and more. We review the
mission and plans of the LOSC, focusing on the S5 data release.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure, proceedings of the 10th LISA Symposium, University
of Florida, Gainesville, May 18-23, 2014; final published version; see
losc.ligo.org for the S5 data release and more information about the LIGO
Open Science Cente
Open Science: Tools, approaches, and implications
The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing is an annual meeting whose topics are determined by proposals submitted by members of the community. This document is the proposal for a session on Open Science, submitted for consideration for the PSB meeting in 2009
Sustainable Software Ecosystems for Open Science
Sustainable software ecosystems are difficult to build, and require concerted
effort, community norms and collaborations. In science it is especially
important to establish communities in which faculty, staff, students and
open-source professionals work together and treat software as a first-class
product of scientific investigation-just as mathematics is treated in the
physical sciences. Kitware has a rich history of establishing collaborative
projects in the science, engineering and medical research fields, and continues
to work on improving that model as new technologies and approaches become
available. This approach closely follows and is enhanced by the movement
towards practicing open, reproducible research in the sciences where data,
source code, methodology and approach are all available so that complex
experiments can be independently reproduced and verified.Comment: Workshop on Sustainable Software: Practices and Experiences, 4 pages,
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Open up : the mission statement of the Control of Impulsive Action (Ctrl-ImpAct) lab on Open Science
The present paper is the mission statement of the Control of Impulsive Action (Ctrl-ImpAct) Lab regarding Open Science. As early-career researchers (ECRs) in the lab, we first state our personal motivation to conduct research based on the principles of Open Science. We then describe how we incorporate four specific Open Science practices (i.e., Open Methodology, Open Data, Open Source, and Open Access) into our scientific workflow. In more detail, we explain how Open Science practices are embedded into the so-called 'co-pilot' system in our lab. The 'co-pilot' researcher is involved in all tasks of the 'pilot' researcher, that is designing a study, double-checking experimental and data analysis scripts, as well as writing the manuscript. The lab has set up this co-pilot system to increase transparency, reduce potential errors that could occur during the entire workflow, and to intensify collaborations between lab members. Finally, we discuss potential solutions for general problems that could arise when practicing Open Science
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