[Data-Mongers] special seminar on scientific software and unique training opportunity for reproducible papers

[Stace Beaulieu]

Dear WHOI Software folks, WHOI Bioinformatics folks, and Woods Hole Data 
Mongers,

You may be interested in the two events next *Monday, August 17*, 
sponsored by the WHOI Ocean Informatics initiative:
1.) *Special Seminar, noon – 1:00 p.m.*, 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.
2.) *Workshop, 1:45 – 5:00 p.m.*, 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.”

I (Stace) wanted to add a personal note and recommendation for these events.
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."
Here are some of the use cases from another talk that Gil gave earlier 
this year:
"I just finished my thesis, where do I put my software so it does not 
get lost?"
"I found code for a model, does it work as advertised? Is it the best 
model/code I can use?"

Importantly, Dr. Wally Fulweiler, recipient of the first Sloan 
Fellowship in ocean sciences, will join the workshop to describe her 
experience in preparing reproducible Geoscience Papers of the Future 
<http://www.ontosoft.org/gpf/>.
(For the workshop, please RSVP to stace at whoi.edu.)

Best regards,
Stace Beaulieu, coordinator, WHOI Ocean Informatics initiative
Danie Kinkade, At-Large Member for Oceanography, EarthCube Leadership 
Council

http://www.whoi.edu/DoR/special-projects/ocean-informatics-working-group

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Stace E. Beaulieu, Ph.D.
MS #34, Redfield 104
Research Specialist, Biology
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
   
Email stace at whoi.edu
Tel +1 508 289 3536, Skype stace.beaulieu
http://www.whoi.edu/website/sbeaulieu

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