<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
Dear WHOI Software folks, WHOI Bioinformatics folks, and Woods Hole
Data Mongers,<br>
<br>
You may be interested in the two events next <b>Monday, August 17</b>,
sponsored by the WHOI Ocean Informatics initiative:<br>
1.) <b>Special Seminar, noon – 1:00 p.m.</b>, Redfield Auditorium:
"Software Matters: Shedding Light on the Dark Software of Science"
by Dr. Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California, PI for the
OntoSoft project funded by NSF EarthCube.<br>
2.) <b>Workshop, 1:45 – 5:00 p.m.</b>, Smith Conference Room:
"Geoscience Papers of the Future" by Dr. Gil and Dr. Robinson W.
(“Wally”) Fulweiler, Boston University. A training session to learn
how to put together a scientific paper for peer review that “also
fully documents how the data were processed, organized, and
analyzed, ... in enough detail that others can completely reproduce
the science.”<br>
<br>
I (Stace) wanted to add a personal note and recommendation for these
events.<br>
When I saw Yolanda Gil's talk on "dark software" last year, I
thought it was so important that I urged for Ocean Informatics to
take on a new goal this year, "Promote best practices for
sustainability and attribution for scientific software."<br>
Here are some of the use cases from another talk that Gil gave
earlier this year:<br>
"I just finished my thesis, where do I put my software so it does
not get lost?"<br>
"I found code for a model, does it work as advertised? Is it the
best model/code I can use?"<br>
<br>
Importantly, Dr. Wally Fulweiler, recipient of the first Sloan
Fellowship in ocean sciences, will join the workshop to describe her
experience in preparing reproducible <a
href="http://www.ontosoft.org/gpf/">Geoscience Papers of the
Future</a>.<br>
(For the workshop, please RSVP to <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:stace@whoi.edu">stace@whoi.edu</a>.)<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Stace Beaulieu, coordinator, WHOI Ocean Informatics initiative<br>
Danie Kinkade, At-Large Member for Oceanography, EarthCube
Leadership Council<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.whoi.edu/DoR/special-projects/ocean-informatics-working-group">http://www.whoi.edu/DoR/special-projects/ocean-informatics-working-group</a><br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
=====================================
Stace E. Beaulieu, Ph.D.
MS #34, Redfield 104
Research Specialist, Biology
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
Email <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:stace@whoi.edu">stace@whoi.edu</a>
Tel +1 508 289 3536, Skype stace.beaulieu
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.whoi.edu/website/sbeaulieu">http://www.whoi.edu/website/sbeaulieu</a>
</pre>
</body>
</html>