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Introduction to Openscapes

Introduction to Openscapes

GOM IEA Meeting
New Orleans, LA
Jan 2023

What is Openscapes?

Openscapes goal: champion open practices in environmental science to help uncover data-driven solutions faster

How does it work?

Some tools that aid in open science efforts

Github: collaborative version control, project management, publishing
Quarto / RMarkdown: Analyses, figures, & text all together, can render to reporting output of choice

How is GOM IEA using Openscapes?

Problem: Ecosystem Status Reports are complex and difficult to update

Solution: Use the Openscapes mindset and tools to build more collaborative, streamlined, and easily updated ESRs

How ESRs are currently made…

Data: numerous sources, CSVs everywhere
Metadata: each researcher’s responsibility
Analysis: excel and R
Version control: Final_Final_REALLY FINAL.pdf
Storage: individual computers, google drive
Communication: periodic meetings and emails
Writing: Google docs, RMarkdown sometimes

How we want to improve…

Data: structured, relational databases
Metadata: uniform format, stored on github
Analysis: scripts stored in one github repo
Version control: Pushes to github from R
Storage: document on Github where data are
Communication: meetings, issues on Github
Writing: Live Quarto document

Challenges to overcome…

Fostering online collaborative culture (getting people to use Github)
Explicit best practices on collaboration and Github
Transerring old methods and code to Github