Upcoming Open Science Events

[nasacrawford]

I thought it might be useful to create a discussion topic to list upcoming open science events. To start things off, we have the upcoming event:

Event: Open Source Science for Data Processing and Archives Workshop
When: Oct 14, 12-3 pm ET

[nasacrawford]

Event: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science will host a public release of Developing a Toolkit for Fostering Open Science Practices: Proceedings of a Workshop

When: Thursday, September 30, 2021 from 3:30-4:30 pm EDT.
Registration: Please register in advance to receive information on how to participate in the event.

[libcce]

Event: Open Science FAIR
When: September 20-23, 2021
http://opensciencefair.eu/

Also see Open Research Calendar https://twitter.com/OpenResearchCal

[nasacrawford]

Citizen science Open Science Meeting:
Announcing the Autumn 2021 Series: Co-creating a NASA Citizen Science Data Primer
https://nasacitsci.gmri.org

Lecture series occurring throughout the Autumn

[rmcgranaghan]

During the Earth Science Informatics Partners (ESIP) Summer Meeting 2021, a cross-cutting group of us were awarded a micro-grant to explore harmonizing Space Weather glossaries as a means to bring the space-based perspective to the Earth Sciences.

In the ethos of Open Science, we will be conducting this project in an inclusive, participatory, and educational manner, hoping to bring together the pockets of wonderful progress that are occurring across our community.

The first phase of the project is a tutorial workshop on the how and why of glossary harmonization (see a description of the why below).

We would like to invite you to a 90-minute virtual gathering on October 15 from 2-3:30 PM EDT to be a part of the community that understands how to achieve glossary harmonization and to discuss approaches for the Space Weather use case. Please indicate your interest here.

You can find full details in the notes for the workshop and help shape their evolution here.

A few suggested groups that will benefit and be interested in the event:

• Semantic Technology developers
  

• Knowledge engineers
  

• Systems scientists
  

• Space physicists
  

• Natural Language Processing practitioners
  

• Risk/Resilience analysts
  

Looking forward to a generative discussion!

Kind Regards,
Ryan McGranaghan (NASA; ASTRA LLC)
Ruth Duerr (Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship)
Brandon Whitehead (Manaaki Whenua -- Landcare Research in New Zealand)

Why Glossary Harmonization?

“In the modern era of ubiquitous computing, metadata has become infrastructural, like the electrical grid or the highway system.”

Metadata and information models are the structure to the information in our world. They give us a way to navigate the deluge of 21st century digital life and permit discovery. All scientists, engineers, researchers require an understanding of metadata and information models.

A harmonized glossary is a first step to more robust metadata and information models (i.e., ontologies). We all know the challenge of understanding one another’s particular language (whether that is the language of another domain or the lexical nuances from one person to the next). The harmonization process attempts to identify the different definitions for terms in a given domain and across related domains and to harmonize them by understanding similarities and differences.

A harmonized glossary is the bedrock of information search, integration, and automated analyses (e.g., Natural Language Processing). This tutorial session will be a lasting benefit to all in the business of discovery.

[rmcgranaghan]

Uncommon opportunity to advance Open Science!

If you enjoyed the fantastic AGU session on Open Science, then you will enjoy a new NASA Conference called the Jack Eddy Symposium, which will center on Open Science as a theme ("Why our grand challenges in Solar Terrestrial Science require open science").

We would be delighted if you would join us (June 6-10, 2022 in Vail, CO) and help bring open science ideas and practices to an uncommon community that spans the Earth and space sciences. Register here!

[rmcgranaghan]

Quick exciting update on this conference - we expect participation by 2i2c.org, NASA Center for HelioAnalytics, Pangeo, and numerous institutions helping imagine and realize a future of open science.

We are designing the event to be centered around open collaboration periods and generative of open science curriculum artifacts. Teams will emerge from this event that align seamlessly with the NASA TOPS community

[mgrover1]

We are hosting a virtual Open Science workshop through the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Facility / DOE on May 10-13!

From the information page:

"There is a growing effort in the Atmospheric Radiation (ARM) user facility, Atmospheric System Research (ASR), and other communities to make scientific research, data, and software more open and accessible to the larger atmospheric science community. The ARM/ASR Open Science Virtual Workshop 2022 will serve as a mechanism to bring this larger community together to discuss and collaborate on open science topics, which include but are not limited to software, hardware, and data."

If you are interested in submitting a talk/attending, check out the announcement from ARM!

[msouff]

Was there not a community forum today?

[nasacrawford]

It is currently happening and more information is available here: https://github.com/nasa/Transform-to-Open-Science/blob/main/docs/Area1_Engagement/Community_Forums/05122022_forum_info.md

[rkbarry]

Thank link is broken

[chall-nasa]

Thank you @rkbarry we moved some things around and the new link is at https://github.com/nasa/Transform-to-Open-Science/blob/main/docs/Area1_Engagement/Community_Forums/2022_Forums/20220512_community_forum.md.