The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship

Groups (Archived)

Here is a full list of FORCE11 groups that are now closed

Open Climate Knowledge Working Group

100% open collaborative research for climate change knowledge—using data mining & open science publishing | #OCK @OCKProject The group does much of its work via GitHub: https://github.com/OCKProject/Force11-OCKWG Description The climate crisis of the predicted atmosphere temperatures rising to 1.5C + makes it imperative that research related to climate change be put to better use by being open and digitally connected.

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WG4:Enabling technologies and infrastructures

Description The culture we envision for the Scholarly Commons will not just happen. We need supportive technologies and infrastructures that will enable the culture of the commons to flourish. We need to have discussions about needed technologies in a community fashion so that we can have the unity in approach and the help and support that will be needed to

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Reports Ideas and Projects (RIAP)

GROUP IS NO LONGER ACTIVE. FOR QUERIES, PLEASE WRITE TO ‘INFO@FORCE11.ORG’ Description The benefits of early publishing have been demonstrated by the emergence of several preprint servers. These are usually domain specific and make it easier for researchers to present their work before it is peer reviewed and published in a traditional journal. There is, however, a set of key documents for

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Software Citation Implementation Working Group

This group builds on the previous Software Citation Working Group, which developed and publicized an initial set of software citation principles (https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.86). The activities of the Software Citation Implementation Working Group are: work with relevant stakeholders (publishers, librarians, archivists, funders, repository developers, other community forums with related working groups, etc.) to: endorse the principles develop sets of guidelines for implementing

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WP3:Decision Trees

A subgroup of the Scholarly Commons Working Group A process for developing decision trees for selected research objects and processes [Helmsley goal:  (landscape) visualization, dissemination] Please see the Scholarly Commons website for our latest activities. The first version of a paper describing the Scholarly Commons has been released!  All feedback welcome. For this work, we have created a matrix of scholarly

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WP1: Self Critique

Please join us on March 27 at 17:00 UTC for our first open community call!   Únete a nosotros el 27 de marzo a las 17:00 UTC (2:00 PM Santiago, 2:00 PM Buenos Aires, 7:00 PM Madrid) for our first open community call!en nuestra primera reunión abierta a la comunidad! The Force11 Scholarly Commons working group has been collaborating since

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FSCI Steering Committee

The FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute Steering Committee was established to oversee the development and implementation of the Summer School.   Membership of the Steering Committee is by invitation.   Steering Committee Member List   Committee Email Address: fscisteering@force11.org (Private for group members only) Archive: https://archive.force11.net/node/7688

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The Future Commons Partnership

Transforming Scholarly Communication through Collective Action Description The purpose of Future Commons is to develop an interdisciplinary, cross-sector, and global collaborative partnership that promote transformation in Scholarly and Scientific Communication (SSC) by encouraging cross-silo innovation, dissemination, and mobilization. As such is an extension and development from the "Scholarly Commons" and "Commons" Working Groups. Goals The ultimate target/outcome of this Future Commons is a

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2017 FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI)

GROUP HAS COMPLETED THEIR WORK AND IS NO LONGER ACTIVE. FOR QUERIES, PLEASE WRITE TO ‘INFO@FORCE11.ORG’   Description This group will work on establishing and overseeing a FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute, focussing on contemporary trends in scholarly and scientific communication.  The goal of this institute will be to provide courses and workshops in contemporary topics in scholarly and scientific communication, ranging from

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FAIR DMP

Description With requirements from funders for data management plans in grant applications, FORCE11 has an opportunity to help coordinate the many efforts underway around the globe to provide tools and recommendations for creating these data management plans. In alignment with FORCE11's efforts to distill commons principles and best practices governing the production of research objects so that they are FAIR

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FORCE-Protocols

GROUP IS NO LONGER ACTIVE. FOR QUERIES, PLEASE WRITE TO ‘INFO@FORCE11.ORG’   Description The purpose of this working group is to create a practical, shared formalism using semantic web standards for scientific experimental protocols and data generated by these protocols. Our work is centered on the following competency questions: The formulation should be able to describe the workflow of a protocols at multiple levels:

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WP2:Principles

Aim: next draft of principles, representing both aspirational standards and specifications towards achieving those. This will be a working version that can be used but is also open to debate, refinement and change. [Helmsley goal: principles] Format: 2-3 page document, containing Mertonian framing, structured set of principles and suggestions on how to use/proceed Content: Mertonian framing: preamble, framing the principles

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