Synthetic Daisies: Open Data Day Activities

"1) You can host some of your unpublished data (whether they are linked to publications or not) at an open data repository. You can do this through a general repository such as Dryad or Figshare, or a specialized repository such as Open fMRI [1].

 

* another part of publishing data is the need for annotation and other metadata. This is a barrier to opening up datasets, but the benefits of doing so may outweigh the initial investments [2].

2) You can join a open access communities such as data.world, a new social media network that allows people to share datasets of all types and sizes. 3) You can commit to creating more systematic descriptions of your research methods (e.g. the things you do to create data). This can be done by creating a set of digital notes or protocol descriptions [3], and making them open through Jupyterhub and protocols.io [4], respectively. 4) You can host your own virtual Hackathon. Unsure as to how you might do this? Then you can earn any (or all) in a series of three badges (Hackathon I, Hackathon II, Hackathon III) created in conjunction with the Open Worm Foundation. 5) You can petition or get involved with municipal and state/provincial governments to ensure their committment to open public data. Of course, there are other things you can do, and more innovation is needed in this area. Have some ideas or planning an event of your own. Let me know, and I will invite you to the Orthogonal Lab's new Slack channel on Open Science."