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Openness in research can lead to greater reproducibility, an accelerated pace of discovery, and decreased redundancy of effort. In addition, open research ensures equitable access to knowledge and the ability for any community to assess, interrogate, and build upon prior work. In order for research to succeed, openness and reproducibility are required. In turn, this requires open infrastructure and distributed access; but few institutions can provide all of these services alone. Providing a trustworthy network for perpetual availability of research data is critical to ensuring reproducibility, transparency, and ongoing inquiry. There is increased attention on the importance of open research and data sharing, leading to a proliferation of platforms to store data, materials, etc. These platforms exist in a fragmented environment that lacks technical integration and coordination with local library expertise and services, hampering curation and long-term stewardship. For example, the open source OSF enables researchers to directly create and manage research projects and integrates with other tools researchers use (Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, etc.), but lacks the ability to archive that materialle locally at a researcher’s institution. Long-term stewardship and preservation requires multiple copies of data archived in different locations, and creating archives seamlessly would be ideal. COS and IA propose to address the preservation and stewardship challenges by providing open, cooperative infrastructure to ensure long-term access and connection to research data, and by supporting and promoting adoption of open science practices to enhance research reproducibility as well as data sharing and reuse. In this workshop, participants will gain skills to implement reproducible research practices using OSF and other tools, and then curate and preserve research artifacts on Internet Archive. We will further demonstrate the possibilities to preserve such content in local institutional repositories or other distributed networks, uses community-developed standards and protocols.

Materials for CDABS R Workshop Series.