New Charlottesville Nonprofit Helps Scientists Collaborate Aroun - NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and Weather

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Summary:

"A new Charlottesville nonprofit is starting to have an effect on science on a global scale. It's helping researchers collaborate from around the world. The Center for Open Science has come up with an online tool for researchers to organize and share their work. 'Our mission is to improve openness, integrity, and reproduce-ability in science,' said software developer Josh Carpe. They're calling it the Open Science Framework, or OSF. The OSF is a tool researchers can use to collaborate with each other, to make each other more efficient, and to organize their materials. 'It's a web platform which is meant to take every stage in the scientific method and make it easier to do, more efficient and more open,' Carpe said. The OSF allows researchers to share data and code, and do analysis. If a scientist wanted to reproduce someone's work, collaborate on a project, or simply organize their own work, they could do so publicly or privately on this web platform ..."

Link:

http://www.nbc29.com/story/24468145/new-charlottesville-nonprofit-helps-scientists-collaborate-around-the-world

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Date tagged:

01/17/2014, 09:59

Date published:

01/17/2014, 04:59