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Office Hours for Code as a Research Object

Tue, 22 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Looking to learn more about how to get a DOI for your code? Interested in the underlying technology used to hook up GitHub (a code hosting service) and figshare (an open data repository)? Join us for our online office hours on Thursday, April 24. We'll be shedding light on the technical build done as part of our "code as a research object" project.

We'll be holding two sessions, one at 11 am ET for those in North America, Europe, and Africa, and another at 4 pm ET for our Australasian colleagues. These sessions are open to all, and are your chance to ask your implementation questions, gain a better understanding of how the prototype works, and peek under the hood at the codebase.

Have a question? Add it to the etherpad, where you can also find useful background on the project as well as dial-in information. We hope you'll join us.

Code as a Research Object

Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The Mozilla Science Lab's newest project extends our existing work around code as a research object, exploring how we can better integrate code and scientific software into the scholarly workflow. The project will build and test a bridge to allow users to push code from their GitHub repository to figshare, providing a Digital Object Identifier for the code. We will also be working on a best practice standard (like MIAME for code) so that each research object has sufficient documentation to make it possible to meaningfully use.

For more information, please see the full post on the MSL website. And please join us for our December 12 community call, where we'll be talking with Ed Lazowska about the newly-announced data science centers, and with Arfon Smith and Mark Hahnel about this project.

Mozilla Science Lab Community Call for December 2013

Mon, 09 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The last community call of the season for the Mozilla Science Lab will take place this Thursday, December 12. The call is open to the public and will start at 11 am ET. Call in details can be found on the call etherpad and on the wiki.