21 research outputs found
Using peer review to support development of community resources for research data management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons 1.0 Public Domain Dedication. The definitive version was published in Journal of eScience Librarianship 6 (2017): e1114, doi:10.7191/jeslib.2017.1114.To ensure that resources designed to teach skills and best practices for scientific
research data sharing and management are useful, the maintainers of those materials need to
evaluate and update them to ensure their accuracy, currency, and quality. This paper
advances the use and process of outside peer review for community resources in addressing
ongoing accuracy, quality, and currency issues. It further describes the next step of moving the
updated materials to an online collaborative community platform for future iterative review in
order to build upon mechanisms for open science, ongoing iteration, participation, and
transparent community engagement.DataONE is supported by US National Science Foundation Awards 08- 30944 and 14-30508, William Michener, Principal Investigator; Matthew Jones, Patricia Cruse, David Vieglais, and Suzanne Allard, Co-Principal Investigators
Community Organizations: Changing the Culture in Which Research Software Is Developed and Sustained
Software is the key crosscutting technology that enables advances in
mathematics, computer science, and domain-specific science and engineering to
achieve robust simulations and analysis for science, engineering, and other
research fields. However, software itself has not traditionally received
focused attention from research communities; rather, software has evolved
organically and inconsistently, with its development largely as by-products of
other initiatives. Moreover, challenges in scientific software are expanding
due to disruptive changes in computer hardware, increasing scale and complexity
of data, and demands for more complex simulations involving multiphysics,
multiscale modeling and outer-loop analysis. In recent years, community members
have established a range of grass-roots organizations and projects to address
these growing technical and social challenges in software productivity,
quality, reproducibility, and sustainability. This article provides an overview
of such groups and discusses opportunities to leverage their synergistic
activities while nurturing work toward emerging software ecosystems
Building, Growing and Sustaining Global Collaborative Communities
Agile, interconnected and diverse communities of practice can serve as a hedge on an uncertain world. We currently live in an era of populist politics and diminishing government funding, challenging our collective optimism for the future. However, the communities we build and contribute to can be prepared and strengthened to address the challenges ahead. How we choose to operate in this world of less funding is tied to the collective impacts we all believe we can achieve by working together. How we choose to work together and structure our communities matters
Building, Growing and Sustaining Global Collaborative Communities
Agile, interconnected and diverse communities of practice can serve as a hedge on an uncertain world. We currently live in an era of populist politics and diminishing government funding, challenging our collective optimism for the future. However, the communities we build and contribute to can be prepared and strengthened to address the challenges ahead. How we choose to operate in this world of less funding is tied to the collective impacts we all believe we can achieve by working together. How we choose to work together and structure our communities matters
Supporting Open Source leaders in Aotearoa
New Zealand has been the birthplace of a number of high profile Open Source Software (OSS) projects and many smaller niche projects. This BoF session will be an open conversation around the challenges and opportunities present when creating open source communities in New Zealand and around the world, and what support open source leaders need to be successful. What resources, support systems, financial structures, talent pathways and other supporting infrastructure could unlock a flourishing of open source projects in and around science in Aotearoa? What could research institutions, businesses and government departments do to encourage more open source approaches? How can the philanthropic sector learn about open source models and support their impact? In science, OSS projects often start based on addressing a scientific problem, they work to develop a solution in software and share that with a broader community. Many open source developers have a choice to make about whether they want to âgo-bigâ, or âstay-smallâ as their software gains traction and users. Our research is exploring this decision point, and the ways in which projects all over the world have right-sized their projects to deliver the impacts their communities crave. Weâre looking at how projects have succeeded and failed in the past, and working to support new leaders to learn from past mistakes. After a brief presentation outlining our research efforts, weâll describe a recently funded project supporting this research, and a cohort based learning, and global Community of Practice development. Together weâll collaboratively brainstorm past successes and failures in OSS in NZ, uncover what interesting open source efforts are underway today and explore possible futures where we can better support open source leaders in Aotearoa. This will be an engaging, inclusive and open discussion to bring together open source advocates, leaders and supporting institutions to ask: âHow could we support people to generate a flourishing of Open Source Software by and for Aotearoa?â All are welcome who share in a drive to bring open source impacts to the world from the shores of Aotearoa. References: Understanding Scientific Open Source Software (OSS) Project Leadership â https://orgmycology.com/understanding-oss-project-leadership/ ABOUT THE AUTHORJonah has acted as an organizational leader in software and information systems at private sector companies, universities, and international non-profit organizations worldwide. He's worked to sustain the international non-profit The Carpentries, acting as the chief executive of Software Carpentry and Director of Membership at the follow-on organization, The Carpentries, an impact-driven global volunteer coordination organization. He built innovation spaces, innovative computing environments, and a research informatics team that increased extramural funding competitiveness at The University of Oklahoma. He has worked inside the hyper-growth software company to help advise and structure how skill development and learning are built into the fabric of a globally operating company. As a consultant, heâs advised and facilitated for The Veracity Lab, MolSSI (Molecular Science Software Institute), OMSF (Open Molecular Science Foundation) g0v (Gov Zero) Aotearoa, FutureBees NZ, and Walk Together Aotearoa on their structures, activities, impact, growth, and approaches to sustainment. Jonah received his MS in Forestry and Natural Resources in 2008, and a B.S. in Physics in 2001, both from Purdue University.For more information about eResearch NZ / eRangahau Aotearoa, visit:https://eresearchnz.co.nz/</p
Using Backcast Land-Use Change and Groundwater Travel-Time Models to Generate Land-Use Legacy Maps for Watershed Management
We couple two spatial-temporal models, a backcast land-use change model and a groundwater flow model, to develop what we call "land-use legacy maps." We quantify how a land-use legacy map, created from maps of past land use and groundwater travel times, differs from a current land-use map. We show how these map differences can affect land-use planning and watershed management decisions at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. Our approach demonstrates that land-use legacy maps provide a more accurate representation of the linkage between land use/cover and current water quality compared to the current land-use map. We believe that the historical signatures of land-use impacts on current water quality should be considered in land-use planning and watershed management
Assessing migration patterns in Passerina ciris using the worldâs bird collections as an aggregated resource
Natural history museum collections (NHCs) represent a rich and largely untapped source of data on demography and population movements. NHC specimen records can be corrected to a crude measure of collecting effort and reflect relative population densities with a method known as abundance indices. We plotted abundance index values from georeferenced NHC data in a 12-month series for the new world migratory passerine Passerina ciris across its molting and wintering range in Mexico and Central America. We illustrated a statistically significant change in abundance index values across regions and months that suggests a quasi-circular movement around its non-breeding range, and used enhanced vegetation index (EVI) analysis of remote sensing plots to demonstrate non-random association of specimen record abundance with areas of high primary productivity. We demonstrated how abundance indices from NHC specimen records can be applied to infer previously unknown migratory behavior, and be integrated with remote sensing data to provide a deeper understanding of demography and behavioral ecology across time and space