We invite scientists, research investigators, reproducibility initiatives and professionals to our Reproducibility Café focused on developing a prototype plan for managing reproducibility activities in research projects. This time, we will focus on the reproducibility questions that are missing from the DMP landscape.
The event is organised by OpenAIRE in the context of TIER2, a Horizon Europe project that aims to boost knowledge on reproducibility to enhance trust, integrity, and overall efficiency in research. To achieve that, the project will develop tools, foster community engagement, implement interventions and policies across the epistemic contexts of social, life, and computer sciences and cross-disciplinary stakeholder groups of research publishers and funders.
OpenAIRE contributes to TIER2 through the ARGOS service with a pilot on Reproducibility Management Plans - RMPs. The RMPs extend the Data Management Plan concept to accommodate more elements that are vital to effectively plan and follow research so that it’s reproducible. The pilot will create a generic prototype based on the successful paradigm of Science Europe for DMPs (Practical Guide to the International Alignment of Research Data Management - Extended Edition) and for Domain Data Protocols - DDPs (Guidance Document Presenting a Framework for Discipline-specific Research Data Management) adapted to thematic pilot intricacies.
The event is a great opportunity for scientists and professionals working on reproducibility to come together and engage in breakout sessions deliberating on existing prototypes and proposing ways to overcome current landscape limitations while incentivising the reproducibility practices at the planning stage of research. It is organised as a follow up of the RMP workshop run as part of the CERN/NASA Open Science Summit in Geneva last Summer.
The meeting adopts the World Café concept to organise an interactive session on reproducibility in a relaxed atmosphere. It will start with an introductory presentation to inform about the project activities, the methodology of the RMP pilot and the efforts made so far. It will, then, set up breakout sessions and provide participants with the tools and guidance needed to engage in discussions. At the end of the breakout sessions, participants will reconvene in the main room and representatives will report back on the main points raised in their group.
Participants will be divided into groups. Each group will be assigned 1-2 sections of existing prototypes to review what already exists, assess if it fits the investigated reproducibility context, and propose ways to enhance those practices and supplemented guidance.
You can find the agenda for the event here.
Science Europe Practical Guide to the International Alignment of Research Data Management - Extended Edition
Elli Papadopoulou – Athena RC – elli.p@athenarc.gr
Stefania Amodeo – OpenAIRE – stefania.amodeo@openaire.eu