Demos for Democracy, featuring the Open Science Framework

The GovLab presents Demos for Democracy, an ongoing series of live, interactive online demos featuring designers and builders of the latest innovative governance platforms, tools or methods to foster greater openness and collaboration to how we govern.

Open Science Framework: increasing openness, integrity and reproducibility of scientific research

On December 12, 2014, we had a conversation with Courtney Soderberg about the Open Science Framework a free, open-source web application developed by the Center for Open Science to help researchers manage every part of the research workflow and easily implement open and reproducible practices. The OSF provides automatic logging and versioning, altmetrics for measuring impact, and personalizable privacy options so researchers can easily share an entire research project or parts of a project.

Their main objective is to create a platform to connect and document the entire research workflow from a project’s inception to its publication and open sharing. This will help to move away from the existing model of scientific communication to improve the efficiency in meeting the purpose of public science—knowledge accumulation.

What: Watch our video to find out what Open Science Framework is, how it works, the process of its design and how can the platform be used for social good.

About Courtney:  Courtney Soderberg is the Statistical and Methodological Consultant at the Center for Open Science. As part of her work she heads up the Center’s teaching and training initiatives to help scientists integrate more open and reproducible statistical and methodological practices into their workflows. Her background is in experimental social psychology and quantitative psychology.