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Dagstuhl Trip Report

July 20-24, 2015

Background

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 was 13502, 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 Scecher, Canada, Daniel Staemmler, Germany, Robert Stevens, UK, Gary vandenBos, US, Hal Warren, US, Eric Weichselgarter, Germany.

Purpose

The purpose of the seminar was to bring together a diverse group of scientists and practitioners to understand the current conduct of Pyschology and the Behavioral Sciences, and to make recommendations regarding the application of computer science to the betterment of the displines.

Format

Invitees presented on their projects and background – see (Background) and (VIVO) presentations.  The presentations were on

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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.

Themes

Over the course of the week, the participants sketched out a vision for the future of eScience consistent with the Previous Dagsthul 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?) Interoperable, Accessible, Reproducible.  Two large issues in the conduct of psychology and the behavorial sciences were identified:

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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.

Outcomes

The group will joint write and edit a manifesto regarding the current state of eScience in Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences, including strategies for creating new opportunities for scholarship.  Pilot projects will be proposed.  The manifesto will appear as a publication of the Dagstuhl series and will be completed in January 2016.

Follow Up

  1. VIVO at home institutions.  Several participants expressed interest in having VIVO at their home institutions and sent emails beginning inquiry.  In particular, Lange 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.