Program Outline

Logistics:

The cohort meets once a week for discussion and shared learning. The fourth week will be dedicated to individual project sprints (up to 2 hours) with the incubator team and/or other experts.

Potential Topics:

Open Workflows
Tools for Open and Reproducible Research
Collaboration from Authorship to Contributorship
Open Infrastructure
Communicating Research and Scholarship to Peers and Public
Documentation Practices for Evaluation
Transparency
Metrics and Impact
Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR)
Intellectual Property, Author's Rights, and Fair Use
Publishing and/or Scholarly Sharing

Program Goals:

Identify one shift in practice toward open ("open intervention")
Develop a research, teaching, or publishing project infused with open principles, and ultimately findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable
Foster an environment where participants can refine their projects through discussion, development, and informal peer review within the cohort
To provide participants with tools and strategies to
1. communicate to a public audience;
2. sustain projects beyond completion; and
3. get credit for new forms of research

Learning Objectives:

Describe the purpose of your project, defining the need that it meets and why the university, discipline, and/or public should care
Understand what resources are available to you on NCSU’s campus, including identifying potential collaborators and which offices or individuals provide support
Determine which tools and methods are best suited for your project, and further understand the role of tools and methods in the outcome of your project
Understand and address the public benefit of your work
Articulate what happens with your project once you are done working on it, especially how the project may be preserved or maintained
Explore best practices for documentation of research processes, collaborations, and outputs