List of resources for the hackathon

What follows is a short list of resources that might come in handy during the hackathon. It includes:

1. Version control and code backup options;
2. Services to organize, document, and add metadata to research data to optimize the visibility of your projects;
3. Tools for data archiving, access, sharing and re-use;
4. Different copyright licenses for open data and software.

For an extensive list of resources for Open Science see the list OpenScience MOOC.

ShareYourCode

Distributed version control systems (DVCS)

Tools

• Git
• Mercurial

Hosting services

• GitLab
• GitHub
• Bitbucket

Web-based executable capsules

• Binder: Turn a Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooks
• CodeOcean: Share code and data alongside published articles. Users can view, edit, and run the article’s code using a web browser.
• CodePen: Share simple HTML / CSS / Javascript code quips.
• Heroku: Cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages. Free options available.

ShareYourData

• Registry of research data repository: Tool to search for the data repository that best fit your data.
• Zenodo: Publish research in any file format and assign an institutionally-branded DOI (total files size limit per record is 50GB).
• Figshare: Publish research in any file format and assign an institutionally-branded DO (5GB default single file limit. The limit can be increased up to 5TB in size).
• Dryad: Curated resource that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable.

ShareYourFramework

Keep all your files, data, and protocols in one centralized location.

• Open Science Framework: Cloud-based management for projects.
• Synapse: Organizes your digital research assets, and mints. DOI.
• ReproZip: ReproZip can automatically pack your research along with all necessary data files, libraries, environment variables and options into a self-contained bundle.

Licenses

Open source licenses grant permission to everyone to use, modify, and share licensed software for any purpose, subject to conditions preserving the provenance and openness of the software.

For Code

• List of open software licences
• Creative Commons

For Data

• Open Data Commons
• Creative Commons

Useful links

• Orion-OpenScience Project: FactSheets
• Research Preprints:server list
• Data Sharing and the future of science Nature Communications volume 9, Article number: 2817 (2018)