Making SOS-TIPS happen

Open Science & Sustainability (WP4)

This WP is close to my heart, as I am a proponent of Open Science (OS). I want to make this entire project, the whole process from beginning to end, transparent. To make this happen, this website is very important, as is the Open Science Framework (OSF) project and the Gitlab repository. I've set up the main deliverables already: Git repo and Website.

Aside from the website, Git repo, and OSF, I also promised workshops on OS and the Reproducible Open Coding Kit (ROCK) (D31-32). We've already held an OS/ROCK workshop at the EHPS at the end of August, and will hold another one at ICQE21 in early November; I need to write a report for these! They were originally planned for month 10 and 30 but opportunities presented themselves and we took it. I imagine we will have more than the planned two occasions, anyway. Another OS deliverable is our standard/convention & open data management system streamlined for future research (D14).

These are both basically repositories for your scientific work. They enable you to make your entire process (or any specific part of it) publicly accessible. This enhances transparency, reproducibility, reusability, interoperability, and confirmability. It doesn't necessarily indicate a more reliable process and results, but because your venture is open to scrutiny this way, it does present many opportunities for project stakeholders, auditors, and visitors to inspect what you are doing, provide feedback, and thus enables the optimization of all accessible aspects of the project.
Gitlab is most frequently used by software developers; if you are e.g. working in R programming language, it operates most effectively together with R Studio...this is what I am familiar with to some extent. But I'm sure there are other ways to easily interface with Git. This system also enables several team members to work on a project, while taking advantage of "version control", that is, being able to keep track of multiple versions of the same project, trace steps back if necessary, and have a structured way of approaching information production and exchange. It also provides space for issue tracking, commenting, and assigning tasks (with deadlines).
OSF is a repository as well, where you can upload files pertaining to your project; it also allows for version control, provided the file you wish to replace is named in the same exact way as its previous version. OSF is useful because its a more user-friendly interface than Git, it has a searchable database of projects, and it is integrated with other Open Science platforms, such as Registries and Preprints.

More on Open Science here

How to choose the appropriate license for your work, resources here and here!