Creating a Culture of Collaboration at George Washington University (C3@GWU) Utilizing the Open Science Framework (OSF)
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Lotrecchiano G, Potterbusch M. Creating a Culture of Collaboration at George Washington University (C3@GWU) Utilizing the Open Science Framework (OSF). Oral presentation at 2017 SciTS Conference. Clearwater Beach, FL. Jun 14, 2017. Creating an Institutional Culture for Team Science. Online at: http://www.scienceofteamscience.org/2017-agenda.
Problem. In an effort to promote collaboration in
research teams tackling complex problems, many
new initiatives exist on local, regional, and national
levels. Many of these stem from responses to executive
and federal recommendations from agencies like the
National Academies of Science (NAS), the National
Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science
Foundation (NSF), and executive orders that encourage
greater collaboration within and across disciplines
requiring more team-oriented scientific approaches
(Bennet, Gadlin, & Levine-Finley, 2010; National
Academy of Science, 2015; Obama, 2015). Our response
to this charge was to develop the Creating a Culture
of Collaboration at George Washington University
(C3@GWU) University Seminar that convenes a crossdisciplinary
community of expert faculty interested in
issues related to scientific collaboration and connects
them with regional and national partners and experts to explore and address topics that foster collaborative
science. Its main goal is to raise awareness and
scholarship around key topical areas important to
collaboration and team science.
In addition to encouraging individuals to interface in
scholarly conversation across disciplines, schools, and
institutions, which this seminar ensures, the seminar
addresses a variety of organizational issues about
needed mechanisms, which in the absence of informed
knowledge, policies, and common understanding, can
serve as barriers to achieving team scholarship goals.
This university seminar addresses and builds a GW
agenda of scholarly conversation around a few of these
critical mechanisms:
• Being a Team Scientist: Being Prepared, Knowing Your
Resources, and Using Available Tools.
• The-Science-of-Team-Science: Measuring Team
Effectiveness
• Collaborative Technologies and Informetrics
• Educating Team and Interprofessional Scientists
• Trust, Vision, Recognition and Scholarly Credit
• Crossing Gender, Ethnic, and Cultural Boundaries in
Science and Research
This university seminar compiles, disseminates, and
archives, through university events and products,
key “think tank” outcomes, which will bring together
thinkers and practitioners in these areas. Ultimately,
this project will allow faculty and staff to contribute to
developing activities and products that are delivered to
the university community. To manage this undertaking,
we explored the Open Science Framework (OSF)
as a platform for engaging disparate and diverse
stakeholders with different levels of engagement. By
leveraging the OSF’s flexible structure and features,
each think tank team can organize their OSF project to
best suit their needs while also facilitating future public
access to some or all of their work. This in turn will
allow others to build on this work and thereby further
develop scholarship in the field of collaborative science
by making the process as well as the products public.
Method. The presenters plan to provide an overview
of the C3@GWU program and its three year strategic
plan as an example of how to promote team science
awareness and values, and its potential impact in a
university setting. In addition, we will demonstrate
how the technologies such as the Open Science
Framework were introduced, incorporated, and served
as infrastructure for the successful execution of the
seminar’s multiple phases.
SciTS Advancement. The C3@GWU university
seminar provides a low cost, high impact model for
expanding discourse, scholarship, and service in a
university setting. Through sharing of the program and
resources, we hope to encourage others to fashion
similar programs as a means to increase awareness
and scholarship in the area of team and collaborative
science.
Language(s):
English
Type of Publication:
Oral presentation
Keywords:
scits 2017 conference, presentation, culture, collaboration, GWU, open science framework, OSF
Addresses these goal(s):
- Provide institutional support for team science
Resource created by Jane Hwang on 10/5/2017 3:19:20 PM.