Center for Open Science Logo

[Jeffrey Spies]

Based on your feedback, the COS has a new logo:

http://centerforopenscience.org/

We'll be populating the website with content over the next several days.

Thanks for your votes!

Jeff.

[Jon Peirce]

I've been keen for some time to encourage journals in my field (visual neuroscience) to encourage authors to make their entire source code and raw data available, for running the study, analysing it and generating the figures. I don't think any journal would go with /forcing/ authors into this, so the question is what would encourage such good behaviour. 

My plan was to push the journals to provide a sort of stamp of approval, or more than one with different levels, based (whether loosely or tightly) on Victoria Stodden's Reproducible Research Standard. Then an article in a journal could have a stamp/icon that indicated whether it was:

  - fully reproducible research (green icon, all materials available for replication)

  - partially reproducible? (amber icon, not all materials available but could be recreated by competent peer?)

  - not reproducible (no icon, requires specialised equipment or materials that aren't available)

For my field there are at least two journals that might be encouraged down this route. But to get any traction with them I think we'd want 

  - a body with an online presence to list the spec for such a set of standards

  - a designer to generate some attractive icons/logos that they could use for these badges of honour

Now I'm wondering if COS and the person that created its logo might be the body/designer that could help.

best wishes,

Jon

[Brian Nosek]

Yes, psychological science is presently considering a badge system
like this as well. The badges would be for availability of materials,
data, and pre-registered study design. For that journal, at least, I
believe that "badges" are being thought of more metaphorically - in
practice it would be a short section like disclosure of funding or
competing interests that would provide links to these materials, data,
registrations. But, it certainly wouldn't be hard to generate a
simple visualization if a journal wished to have that.

If the journals are interested, we'd be happy to help with the spec
standards to maximize similarity to how they are likely to be
implemented in other journals. Also, they might like to explore ways
that the journals could leverage OSF particularly for their needs on
these sharing mechanisms. We can chat off-line and help with that
too.

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[sheila miguez]

Btw I know someone who has worked on the open badges project at
Mozilla and can ask him if he has any advice/suggestions/etc.

If any of you will be at pycon or in Santa Clara during pycon or pycon
sprints, perhaps people who are interested in sprinting on the osf
project could help with badging -- design work, ideas for badges,
doing technical stuff to get them working with the site. etc.

Is this something people would like to sprint on?

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sheila

[sheila miguez]

Oh, hit return too soon. This doesn't have to be constrained to Santa
Clara / Pycon. There are regional python/open source conferences where
you will find people who have worked on these things. We could perhaps
also put together a mini conference for this in someone's area. If
people want to do this, I will put you in touch with people who have
planned small two-day conferences. I think it would be better to see
if someone who already runs one would be interested in a workshop
track for it.

I feel that the Open Source Bridge conference in Portand would be a
good venue. Their CFP is still open. I haven't signed up for the
conference, but it is one that I would love to go to and would be
thrilled if we had a project there for people to contribute to.

http://opensourcebridge.org/
June 18–21, 2013 | Portland, Oregon

If you are unfamiliar with proposals that would be appropriate for a
conference like this, let me know and I will find a way to put you in
touch with people who will help you to workshop proposals. The
proposals do not have to be deeply technical.

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sheila