SIPS Hackathon (& first anniversary of Psych-DS!) - Sunday at 15:45 in Rotterdam

[Melissa Kline]

Dear all - 

First off, apologies for those of you who are hearing from me on multiple channels. I wanted to let everyone know that we have a hackathon planned to work on Psych-DS coming up this weekend at SIPS, in addition to a 'metadata/ontologies/standards' meetup to hopefully cross-pollinate with some related projects.

This may (I hope!) result in flurry of activity over the next little while: for anyone who is not at SIPS: if anyone wants to join remotely on Sunday, let me know, and I'll also give a post-conference update to catch everyone up on what happens.

The general plan is to start the Sunday hackathon as mostly focused on (potential) *users* of Psych-DS, with a deliverable of a document that helps us understand what researchers may expect out of a tool like this (and a deliverable of more people knowing about, and hopefully interested in contributing to, Psych-DS development!) I'll give a brief introduction to the specification, but hope to spend most of the time learning:

- What people already know how to do, what barriers to understanding and adopting the specification are important to address, what is confusing in the existing documentation. 

- What people *want* to be able to do with their data that they think something like Psych-DS could help with.

- What kinds of tools people would want to have to incorporate Psych-DS into their workflows. 

Following the Sunday session (Monday or Tuesday), I'm hoping to have a meeting/work session to identify next steps for the project, especially (a) implementing a validator and (b) determining what stands between now & a data/methods paper. 

Here is the landing page for the Psych-DS hackathon; it's mostly a skeleton at the moment, but we'll keep using this (and linking out to any other docs as they come into existence) throughout the conference. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lD7554E99mkMdy-STFqkfCvtqMRzX-bBwIAwXxnm2iY/edit#

- Melissa