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The Xpert Network and the Best Practices for Computational and Data-Intensive Research
<p>This video provides a brief overview of the Xpert Network and presents the best practices for professionals who support computational and data-intensive (CDI) research projects. The practices resulted from the Xpert Network activities, an initiative that brings together major NSF-funded projects for advanced cyberinfrastructure, national projects, and university teams that include individuals or groups of such professionals. Additionally, our recommendations are based on years of experience building multidisciplinary applications and teaching computing to scientists. These practices have proven effective in various CDI research settings and are easy to adopt by both research software engineers (RSEs) and domain scientists. You can find these best practices described on the following website: <a href="https://sites.udel.edu/xpert-cdi/resources/best-practices/">https://sites.udel.edu/xpert-cdi/resources/best-practices/</a>. We value your feedback on these practices and encourage you to read our paper for further insights: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3491418.3530293">https://doi.org/10.1145/3491418.3530293</a>.</p>
"I made the recording because Iam an amateur recording engineer and also work for a radio station. At the time, Iwas researching for a religious programme, for the radio and by pure chance and good luck, Iwas in the centre of York at the time the street preacher was there. Iam building up a personal library of 'ambient sounds' to use on various radio shows as 'sound effects'. The recording was taken outside St Helen's Church in St Helen's Square, in the centre of York. There was a fairly large crowd walking about, shopping. It was a Saturday. Some people were standing and listening to the man, some were mocking him, others didn't even notice. It was a sunny day, with a slight wind. St Helen's square is a large 'meeting place' for people with seats, flowers and usually musicians. I live in the centre of York and hear a lot of very interesting sounds there, everything from busking musicians, to many foreign languages, church bells, animals and much more. Ireally liked the recording of the preacher as it is quite clear that he passionately believes what he is saying. He was unaware that Iwas recording him. Iwish Ihad captured his whole sermon. He, and other members of his church visit the centre of York quite often, and preach there. Idon't know the name of his church." [Jools/vedas]19 in Collecting Sounds. Online Sharing of Field Recordings as Cultural Practice
"I made the recording because Iam an amateur recording engineer and also work for a radio station. At the time, Iwas researching for a religious programme, for the radio and by pure chance and good luck, Iwas in the centre of York at the time the street preacher was there. Iam building up a personal library of 'ambient sounds' to use on various radio shows as 'sound effects'. The recording was taken outside St Helen's Church in St Helen's Square, in the centre of York. There was a fairly large crowd walking about, shopping. It was a Saturday. Some people were standing and listening to the man, some were mocking him, others didn't even notice. It was a sunny day, with a slight wind. St Helen's square is a large 'meeting place' for people with seats, flowers and usually musicians. I live in the centre of York and hear a lot of very interesting sounds there, everything from busking musicians, to many foreign languages, church bells, animals and much more. Ireally liked the recording of the preacher as it is quite clear that he passionately believes what he is saying. He was unaware that Iwas recording him. Iwish Ihad captured his whole sermon. He, and other members of his church visit the centre of York quite often, and preach there. Idon't know the name of his church." [Jools/vedas]19
Extended data for Manuscript: Precision medicine implementation and research-practice partnerships: implications of measurement scale differential item functioning (DIF)
<p>This is the extended data for the manuscript submitted to F1000 Research titled:</p> <p>Precision medicine implementation and research-practice partnerships: implications of measurement scale differential item functioning (DIF).</p> <p>File 1 is the redacted survey responses from a card sort exercise carried out to find out how the study participants sorted and ranked various measures of factors thought to influence precision medicine implementation at health systems level.</p> <p>File 2 consists of the study package as described in the article</p>
Data Management and Sharing: Practices and Perceptions of Psychology Researchers
<p class="CxSpFirst">Research data is increasingly viewed as an important scholarly output. While a growing body of studies have investigated researcher practices and perceptions related to data sharing, information about data-related practices throughout the research process (including data collection and analysis) remains largely anecdotal. Building on our previous study of data practices in neuroimaging research, we conducted a survey of data management practices in the field of psychology. Our survey included questions about the type(s) of data collected, the tools used for data analysis, practices related to data organization, maintaining documentation, backup procedures, and long-term archiving of research materials. Our results demonstrate the complexity of managing and sharing data in psychology. Data is collected in multifarious forms from human participants, analyzed using a range of software tools, and archived in formats that may become obsolete. As individuals, our participants demonstrated relatively good data management practices, however they also indicated that there was little standardization within their research group. Participants generally indicated that they were willing to change their current practices in light of new technologies, opportunities, or requirements. </p>
Data of "Using current research information systems to investigate data acquisition and data sharing practices of computer scientists"
<p>This study describes a methodology where departmental academic publications are used to analyse the ways in which computer scientists share research data.</p> <p>Without sufficient information about researchers’ data sharing, there is a risk of mismatching FAIR data service efforts with the needs of researchers. This study describes a methodology where departmental academic publications are used to analyse the ways in which computer scientists share research data. The advancement of FAIR data would benefit from novel methodologies that reliably examine data sharing at the level of multidisciplinary research organisations. Studies that use CRIS publication data to elicit insight into researchers’ data sharing may therefore be a valuable addition to the current interview and questionnaire methodologies.</p> <p><strong>Data was collected from the following sources:</strong></p> <p>All journal articles published by researchers in the computer science department of the case study’s university during 2019 were extracted for scrutiny from the current research information system. For these 193 articles, a coding framework was developed to capture the key elements of acquiring and sharing research data. Article DOIs are included in the research data.</p> <p>The scientific journal articles and theirs DOIs are used in this study for the purpose of academic expression.</p> <p>The raw data is compiled into a single CSV file. Rows represent specific articles and columns are the values of the data points described below. Author names and affiliations were not collected and are not included in the data set. </p> <p> </p> <p>The following data points were used in the analysis:</p> <p><strong>Data points</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Main study types</strong></li> <li>Literature-based study (e.g. literature reviews, archive studies, studies of social media)</li> <li>yes/no</li> <li>Novel computational methods (e.g. algorithms, simulations, software)</li> <li>yes/no</li> <li>Interaction studies (e.g, interviews, surveys, tasks, ethnography)</li> <li>yes/no</li> <li>Intervention studies (e.g., EEG, MRI, clinical trials)</li> <li>yes/no</li> <li>Measurement studies (e.g. astronomy, weather, acoustics, chemistry)</li> <li>yes/no</li> <li>Life sciences (e.g. “omics”, ecology)</li> <li>yes/no</li> <li><strong>Data acquisition</strong></li> <li>Article presents a data availability statement</li> <li>yes/no</li> <li>Article does not utilise data</li> <li>yes/no</li> <li>Original data was collected</li> <li>yes/no</li> <li>Open data from prior studies were used</li> <li>yes/no</li> <li>Open data from public authorities, companies, universities and associations</li> <li>yes/no</li> <li><strong>Data sharing</strong></li> <li>Article does not use original data</li> <li>yes/no</li> <li>Data of the article is not available for reuse</li> <li>yes/no</li> <li>Article used openly available data</li> <li>yes/no</li> <li>Authors agree to share their data to interested readers</li> <li>yes/no</li> <li>Article shared data (or part of) as supplementary material</li> <li>yes/no</li> <li>Article shared data (or part of) via open deposition</li> <li>yes/no</li> <li>Article deposited code or used open code</li> <li>yes/no</li> </ul>
Enhancing research informatics core user satisfaction through agile practices
<p><strong>Objective:</strong> The Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) Research Informatics Shared Resource (RISR), a software and database development core facility, sought to address a lack of published operational best practices for research informatics cores. It aimed to use those insights to enhance effectiveness after an increase in team size from 20 to 31 full-time equivalents coincided with a reduction in user satisfaction.</p> <p><strong>Materials and Methods:</strong> RISR migrated from a water-scrum-fall model of software development to agile software development practices, which emphasize iteration and collaboration. RISR's agile implementation emphasizes the product owner role, which is responsible for user engagement and may be particularly valuable in software development that requires close engagement with users like in science.</p> <p><strong>Results: </strong>All RISR's software development teams implemented agile practices in early 2020. All project teams are led by a product owner who serves as the voice of the user on the development team. Annual user survey scores for service quality and turnaround time recorded nine months after implementation increased by 17% and 11%, respectively.</p> <p><strong>Discussion:</strong> RISR is illustrative of the increasing size of research informatics cores and the need to identify best practices for maintaining high effectiveness. Agile practices may address concerns about the fit of software engineering practices in science. The study had one time point after implementing agile practices and one site, limiting its generalizability.</p> <p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> Agile software development may substantially increase a research informatics core facility's effectiveness and should be studied further as a potential best practice for how such cores are operated.</p>
Research compendium for 'Practical and technical aspects for the 3D scanning of lithic artefacts using micro-computed tomography techniques and laser light scanners for subsequent geometric morphometric analysis. Introducing the StyroStone protocol'
<p><strong>Abstract:</strong></p> <p>Here, we present a new method to scan a large number of lithic artefacts using three-dimensional (3D) scanning technology. Despite the rising use of high-resolution 3D surface scanners in archaeological sciences, no virtual studies have focused on the 3D digitization and analysis of small lithic implements such as bladelets, microblades, and microflakes. This is mostly due to difficulties in creating reliable 3D meshes of these artefacts resulting from several inherent features (i.e., size, translucency, and acute edge angles), which compromise the efficiency of structured light or laser scanners and photogrammetry. Our new protocol <em>StyroStone</em> addresses this problem by proposing a step-by-step procedure relying on the use of micro-computed tomographic technology, which is able to capture the 3D shape of small lithic implements in high detail. We tested a system that enables us to scan hundreds of artefacts together at once within a single scanning session lasting a few hours. As also bigger lithic artefacts (i.e., blades) are present in our sample, this protocol is complemented by a short guide on how to effectively scan such artefacts using a structured light scanner (Artec Space Spider). Furthermore, we estimate the accuracy of our scanning protocol using principal component analysis of 3D Procrustes shape coordinates on a sample of meshes of bladelets obtained with both micro-computed tomography and another scanning device (i.e., Artec Micro). A comprehensive review on the use of 3D geometric morphometrics in lithic analysis and other computer-based approaches is provided in the introductory chapter to show the advantages of improving 3D scanning protocols and increasing the digitization of our prehistoric human heritage.</p> <p><strong>Content List:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>S1. </strong>Step-by-step protocol entitled ‘StyroStone: A protocol for scanning and extracting three-dimensional meshes of stone artefacts using Micro-CT scanners’. Also available on protocols.io (dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.bzbfp2jn);</li> <li><strong>S2. </strong>Dataset with all raw semilandmark coordinate data (in .xlsx format) used in the validation study;</li> <li><strong>S3. </strong>AGMT3D project. The file “Validation Protocol-MorphoProject.mat” can be used to open the project in the software AGMT3D;</li> <li><strong>S4. </strong>Dataset in .csv format of the principal component score data of the validation study;</li> <li><strong>S5.</strong> R script used to create Figure 2 using the R package ggplot2;</li> <li><strong>S6. </strong>3D models of the experimental bladelets obtained with the Micro-CT scanner used in the validation study. Both .ply and .wrl formats are provided;</li> <li><strong>S7. </strong>3D models of the experimental bladelets obtained with the Artec Micro scanner used in the validation study. Both .ply and .wrl formats are provided.</li> </ul>
DATASET associated with the research of students' intrinsic motivation during practical work in physics
<p>This dataset is associated with the research of students' intrinsic motivation during practical work in physics.</p> <p><strong>Legend for specific columns</strong>:</p> <ul> <li><em>gender</em>: 1 = men; 2 = women</li> <li><em>intention to study STEM</em>: 1 = the highest intention; 7 = the lowest intention</li> <li><em>self-reported diligence</em>: 1 = the highest diligence; 7 = the lowest diligence</li> <li><em>the remaining columns (items 1-23)</em>: 1 = the highest feeling of the measured quality; 7 = the lowest feeling of the measured quality*</li> </ul> <p>* By measured quality we mean one of the following dimensions: interest/enjoyment (abbr. <strong>int</strong>), effort/impotance (<strong>eff</strong>), pressire/tension (<strong>ten</strong>), value/usefulness (<strong>val</strong>) and perceived competence (<strong>pc</strong>).</p> <p><strong>Note</strong>: Reverse-worded items have been already taken into account, the score in these tems has been calculated.</p>
How have views on Software Quality differed over time? Research and practice viewpoints (Replication package)
<p>Theoretical and practical viewpoints on the quality of code snippets.</p>
Architecture Decision Records in Practice: An Action Research Study
<p>To establish good architectural practice and knowledge sharing during software development and maintenance, architectural design decisions need to be documented.</p> <p>While a lot of research has been done on documenting architectural decisions, there exist few approaches with empirical evidence on their applicability and usefulness in practice. Architecture Decision Records are a popular documentation approach in industry, but there is a lack of research focusing on how Architecture Decision Records can be introduced in different company contexts.</p> <p>To tackle this shortcoming, we performed an action research study in cooperation with a company that develops a microservice-based system without proper architecture design decision documentation.</p> <p>This dataset encompasses our study material consisting of two questionnaires, our interview guides, and information on the codes used during our analysis.</p> <p> </p> <p>This work was partially supported by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.</p>
Is there a social life in Open Data? Open datasets exploring practices in Educational Technology Research
<p>In the landscape of Open Science, Open Data [OD] plays a crucial role as data are one of the most basic components of research despite their diverse formats across scientific disciplines. Opening up data is a recent concern for policy makers and researchers as the basis for good open science practices. The common factor underlying these new practices – the relevance of promoting open data circulation and reuse – is mostly a social form of knowledge sharing and construction. However, while data sharing is being strongly promoted by policy making and is becoming a frequent practice in some disciplinary fields, open data sharing is much less developed in social sciences and in educational research.</p> <p>The Open Data hereby introduced is composed of two integrated datasets which collect data relating practices of Open Data publication and sharing in the field of Educational Thecnologies. This data was collected to suport the aim of investigating open data sharing in a selection of open data repositories as well as in the academic social network site ResearchGate.</p> <p>The research questions addressing this study are:</p> <ol> <li>Do researchers in the field of Educational Technology publish Open Datasets [ODs]?</li> <li>To which extent are ODs compliant with the FAIR data principles?</li> <li>What is the social life relating to the ODs in terms of the metrics provided by the OD portals? As a subsidiary question: 3.a- To what extent do open data portals allow researchers to cultivate social practices around OD?</li> </ol> <p> </p> <p>In order to investigate OD presence in ResearchGate, the following research aim guided the second part of the study: Analysis of the presence of the same selected OD in ResearchGate and of the type of social activity OD exhibited by OD according to ResearchGate mètrics.</p> <p>The Open Data here presented is composed by two datasets.</p> <ol> <li>23 datasets extracted out from 82 randomly selected datasets, from an inital total of 633. The data set presents a Codebook explaining the several categories of analysis or variables and the values assigned to the same. Since the analysis was performed in two phases (first selection and screening, second selection and classification) the codebook is divided in two tables. Moreover, the data set contains 6 Worksheets, ordered taking the workflow as reference: Codebook, Dataset_Extraction, Analysis_Workflow, Selected_Analysis. This dataset has been produced and curated by J.E.Raffaghelli</li> <li>The analysis of correspondance for the 23 datasets in ResearchGate. The data set presents a Codebook, and is divided into two worksheets: Codebook, ODT&RG. The last worksheet introduces the comparison between the social mètrics within RG of the found datasets and the relating papers. This dataset has been produced and curated by S. Manca and J.E. Raffaghelli.</li> </ol>
Research data sharing in Spain: exploring determinants, practices and perceptions
<p>Responses of the Spanish survey for research data, which was carried out within the framework of the project Datasea at the beginning of 2015. The purpose was to identify the habits and current experiences of Spanish researchers in health sciences in relation to the management and sharing of raw research data. The electronic questionnaire composed of 40 questions divided into three blocks that contained questions on the following aspects: A) Personal information; B) Creation and reuse of data; C) Preservation of data.</p>
D1.4 - Consolidated OA data set for responsible research practices and trust in science: POIESIS National and Regional Database
<p>Deliverable 1.4 of the POIESIS project is a consolidated open access data set for responsible research practices and trust in science. D1.4 consists of two databases: the POIESIS National Database and the POEISIS Regional Database. The method and rationale behind the construction of all indicators in both databases are laid out in Work Package 1’s previous deliverable, D1.3 (Bauer et al., 2024). The two database are accompanied by a Guidance Sheet which provides details and relevant notes regarding the structure of the two databases. </p> <p> </p>
Survey on how do Brazilian Software Engineering Researchers Perceive and Practice Open Science
<p>This document provides our survey questionnaire and the responses of 31 researchers.</p>
Replication Package - From Research to Practice: A Survey of XAI Process Frameworks
<p>Replication package for the ICSE NIER Submission "From Research to Practice: A Survey of XAI Process Frameworks." Provides details about the methods and data used in our analysis. For more information, please take a look at the README.</p>
Dataset for: Fifty years of research on questionable research practices in science: Quantitative analysis of co-citation patterns
<p>Questionable research practices (QRPs) have been the focus of the scientific community amid greater scrutiny and evidence highlighting issues with replicability across many fields of science. To capture the most impactful publications and the main thematic domains in the literature on QRPs, this study uses a document co-citation analysis. The analysis was conducted on a sample of 341 documents that covered the past 50 years of research in QRPs. Nine major thematic clusters emerged. Statistical reporting and statistical power emerged as key areas of research, where systemic-level factors in how research is conducted are consistently raised as the precipitating factors for QRPs. There is also an encouraging shift in the focus of research into open science practices designed to address engagement in QRPs. Such a shift is indicative of the growing momentum of the open science movement, and more research can be conducted on how these practices are employed on the ground and how their uptake by researchers can be further promoted. However, the results suggest that, while pre-registration and registered reports receive the most research interest, less attention has been paid to other open science practices (e.g., data and methods sharing).</p>
Translating Research Into Practice: Patient Navigation for Breast Cancer
ClinicalTrials.gov study NCT03514433. IPD Sharing: NO. Countries: 1. Publications: 3.
Team-based Versus Primary Care Clinician-led Advance Care Planning in Practice-based Research Networks
ClinicalTrials.gov study NCT03577002. IPD Sharing: YES. Countries: 2. Publications: 6.
SPIDER: A Research & QI Collaboration Supporting Practices in Improving Care for Complex Elderly Patients
ClinicalTrials.gov study NCT03689049. IPD Sharing: YES. Countries: 1. Publications: 72.
Enhancing research informatics core user satisfaction through agile practices
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