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Tracking Community Building in Open ScienceOpen Science is enabled by a vibrant community of researchers who regularly engage with the data, from its production to its organization, curation, archiving, dissemination, analysis, and publication. This presentation will examine community building in open science. The NASA Open Science Data Repository (OSDR) makes data available to the public following the FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability) principles. OSDR takes open science further with the OS Analysis Working Groups (AWGs) that facilitate community development and promotion. The primary activity of each AWG is to establish and validate analytical processes to generate higher-order data from data housed in OSDR. There are a number of these groups on various topics, including the Animal AWG, Plant AWG, Microbial AWG, Multi-Omics AWG, AI/ML AWG, and the Ames Life Sciences Data Archive (ALSDA) AWG. The international volunteers participating in these AWGs come from academia, citizen science initiatives, industry, and government. They include researchers, principal investigators, professors, trained hobbyists, and students from various domains and disciplines. Anyone may request to join the AWGs, and membership requests are vetted monthly by the group organizers before granting admission. Core to membership is demonstrated expertise through records of training, integrity, work in the professed domain(s), and good community standing. Regular virtual meetings are held for each AWG, with a varying cadence depending on the group's needs and goals. AWG communities share their expertise in research including cutting edge tools, software, frameworks, data formats, and libraries accelerating research collectively. This collaborative approach helps community members cross technology gaps and identify emerging challenges. These diverse communities encompass a wide range of individuals hailing from various sectors within the Science Mission Directorate and beyond. They serve as a means to promote and enhance transparency, accessibility, and inclusion. An annual AWG Symposium brings contributors together in person. Participation in AWGs can be synchronous or asynchronous, with some groups performing most of their work in off hours. Participants gain valuable skills and connections that allow them to add value to their communities and new organizations that they join, resulting in an expanded return on investment for the space life science community. Open science is increasingly a federal mandate and initiatives like NASA's Transform to Open Science and instruments like the Decadal Survey of Biological and Physical Sciences in Space demonstrate the need to carefully consider best practices in this domain. Here, we present greater detail about the makeup and participation metrics of the various AWGs affiliated with OSDR and details of successful peer-reviewed publication campaigns.
Document ID
20230014302
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Christina M Johnson
(KBR (United States) Houston, Texas, United States)
Paola Castaño ORCID
(University of Exeter Exeter, United Kingdom)
Kristen Peach ORCID
(KBR (United States) Houston, Texas, United States)
Xavier-Lewis Palmer
(KBR (United States) Houston, Texas, United States)
Ryan T Scott
(KBR (United States) Houston, Texas, United States)
Daniela Bezdan
(University of Tübingen Tübingen, Germany)
Rachel Gilbert ORCID
(KBR (United States) Houston, Texas, United States)
Danielle K Lopez
(KBR (United States) Houston, Texas, United States)
Stephen Lantin ORCID
(University of Florida Gainesville, Florida, United States)
Lauren M Sanders
(Blue Marble Space Institute of Science Seattle, Washington, United States)
Afshin Beheshti ORCID
(Blue Marble Space Institute of Science Seattle, Washington, United States)
Richard Barker
(Blue Marble Space Institute of Science Seattle, Washington, United States)
Sigrid Reinsch ORCID
(Ames Research Center Mountain View, California, United States)
Nitin K Singh
(Jet Propulsion Lab La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States)
Melanie J Correll ORCID
(University of Florida Gainesville, Florida, United States)
Nathaniel Szewczyk ORCID
(Ohio University Athens, Ohio, United States)
Sarah Wyatt ORCID
(Ohio University Athens, Ohio, United States)
Gbolaga O Olanrewaju ORCID
(Ohio University Athens, Ohio, United States)
Rafael Loureiro ORCID
(Winston-Salem State University Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States)
Chad Vanden Bosch
(Winston-Salem State University Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States)
Gilbert Cauthorn
(University of North Dakota Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States)
Sylvain V Costes ORCID
(Ames Research Center Mountain View, California, United States)
Date Acquired
September 30, 2023
Publication Date
February 13, 2024
Publication Information
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Subject Category
Social and Information Sciences (General)
Meeting Information
Meeting: NASA Human Research Program Investigator's Workshop (IWS)
Location: Galveston, TX
Country: US
Start Date: February 13, 2024
End Date: February 16, 2024
Sponsors: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNA14AB82C
Distribution Limits
Public
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