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Schloss Dagstuhl is an informatics retreat supported by the Liebniz-Centrum for Informatik and located just outside Wadern Germany in the German state of Saarland.  Each week, an invited computer science seminar is hosted based on applications made by organizers.  Organizers in turn invite participants.  The seminar I attened attended was 1350215302, Open Science in Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences. (insert link).  The attendees were Xavier Aime, France, Dietrich Albert, Germany, Bjorn Brembs, Germany, Mike Conlon, US, Oscar Corcho, Spain, Alex Garcia Castro, Paul Groth, Netherlands, William Gunn, US, Susann Fiedler, Germany, Janna Hastings, UK, Carline Jay, UK, Iris-Tatjiana Kolasssa, Germany, Silvia Koller, Brazil, Christoph Lange, Maryann Maertone, US, Russell Poldrack, US, Alec ScecherSchmecher, Canada, Daniel Staemmler, Germany, Robert Stevens, UK, Gary vandenBos, US, Hal Warren, US, Eric Weichselgarter, Germany.

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Invitees presented on their projects and background – see (Background) and (VIVO) presentations my intro and VIVO intro presentations.  The presentations were onpresentation topics and presenters were:

1. Psychology.  Aime, Albert, Jay, Kolassa, Koller, Poldrack, Weichselgartner
2. Data practices and projects.  Alter, Brembs, Conlon, Fiedler, Garcia Castro, Martone
3. Publishing.  Groth, Gunn, Schmecher, Warren, Staemmler, vandenBos
4. Ontology and information representation.  Hastings, Stevens
5. Computer Science.  Lange, Corcho

Many of the presentations were multi-disciplinary and covered a number of these areas.  Most presentations were 20-30 minutes long and grouped into clusters for of 5 or 6. 

Mid morning and mid-afternoon breaks created approximately two-hour sessions.  Some sessions consisted of presentations, some of joint discussion, some of workgroup breakouts and some of breakout read backs. 

Meals with assigned seating, randomly determined by algorithm facilitated workshop attendees meeting and discussing topics of common interest at lunch and dinner.  All meals and accommodations were held at Schloss Dagstuhl. 

Wednesday afternoon, the seminar attendees visited Trier, and an ancient Roman city on the Luxembourg border.  The Roman emporer Constantine built a spectacular amphtheature amphitheater in Trier that was partially drstroyed destroyed in the second world war and then restored.

Evenings were an opportunity for additional conversation regarding the topics of the day.  The surrounding forests and many rooms of the castle and new additions provided ample space.  The seminar ended mid-day Friday.  Friday evening, remaining guests biked to nearby Wadern for dinner.

Themes

Over the course of the week, the participants sketched out a vision for the future of eScience consistent with the Previous Dagsthul a previous Dagstuhl seminar in 2011, which led to the formation of Force11 (link to home page).  Force11 advocates for open science according to a set of principles known as “FAIR” (insert reference) – (First initial is?)  – Findable, Interoperable, Accessible, and Reproducible.  Two large issues in the conduct of psychology and the behavorial sciences were identified:

1. Legitimacy – is the science good science?  Publication bias, misuse of statistical reasoning, sampling bias, poor technique, inappropriate measures and other issues lead to a crisis in reproducibility and cast doubt on the field.
2. Agility .– are investigators able to get work done?  The growing regulatory burdens, grant and financial issues, training gaps, inability to assemble teams, recruiting limitations and  other barriers create concern for the productivity of investigators in the disciplines.

FAIR principles, Research Objects (insert reference), ontologies, persistent identifiers (including ORCID), credit systems, and repositories (such as Dspace and VIVO), were seen as potential elements of remedies.

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1. VIVO at home institutions.  Several participants expressed interest in having VIVO at their home institutions and sent emails beginning inquiry.  In particular, Lange one received feedback from the on-going evaluation at his university.
2. VIVO and OJS.  Conlon and Schmecher discussed a joint pilot project that would enable representation of OJS journal contents in VIVO data format as RDF for indexing.  Schmecher will add an “issue hook” that will allow a remote service to be notified when a new issue appears.  Conlon will develop the remote service, which then calls existing OJS services to get the issue contents
3. VIVO and proofing.  Conlon and Martone discussed opportunities for identity management in eScience – identifying people (beyond the self-identification of ORCID), datasets (including FAIR certification), and repositories, including FAIR certification.
4. VIVO and German repository of science.  Conlon and Weichselgartner discussed the German national science repositories and opportunities for the creation of VIVO data at the national level in Germany.
5. VIVO and SciELO.  Conlon, Garcia Castro and Koller discussed SciELO and the opportunities to represent scholarship in South America using VIVO at the continental level.
6. Dspace and Research Objects.  Several participants expressed interest in the ability to store research objects (bundles of RDF statements) in open source repositiory software such as Dspace.  Conlon will follow up with Donahue regarding opportunities.
7. Dspace and Psychology.  Weichselgartner asked about discipline groups such as Pyschology surrounding Dspace.  Conlon will follow up to learn more.