The-turing-way: Write 1 paragraph description of the project for announcement

[KirstieJane]

From @jamespjh's email to @KirstieJane:

Please write short external-audience summaries of your projects for announcement info for the programme. Of course, you have the option to just take this from your original proposal if you wish.

Note that we don't actually know when this announcement will be. Probably not 12 Nov as I'd originally suggested 🤷‍♀️. Good to be ready for it though ;)

Deadline Friday 9 Nov

[pherterich]

Assuming that the deadline is the 7th, I've made an attempt at summarizing bits and pieces from the project proposal into a coherent paragraph. All feedback is welcome, especially as I'm not entirely sure about the length/style appropriate for the announcement.

"With more reports about the reproducibility crisis and more and more funders recognizing that researchers are not sharing evidence of their work, reproducible research becomes increasingly important. In practice, this means sharing the data and the code that were used to generate research results so that the work can be independently verified. Enabling the sharing of these research outputs requires much greater understanding of data management, library sciences, and sofware development than is currently taught or expected of academic researchers and data scientists. Based on Turing institute case studies and workshops, the project will develop _The Turing Way_, a handbook on reproducible research including training material for researchers, case studies, and checklists for funders and journal editors."

[r-j-arnold]

With reference to reproducability, I just came from a meeting of the Sheffield reproducability network, a recent ofshoot of the new UK wide repoducability network. Is anyone already familiiar/involved with this? It could be useful to involve them in the project in some way.

[pherterich]

I think both @KirstieJane and me at least signed up to this for information. I understood that the key part is to get individual local groups going (following this model https://osf.io/vgt3x/ ; still waiting for the Birmingham one to kick off) and the nation wide one will just be an umbrella for those.
I guess they are happy to promote our events and resources, I'm sure an email to Marcus will be a good idea.

[KirstieJane]

Thank you @pherterich!! I had made a typo with the date - I'm sorry - the deadline is Friday 9 🤦‍♀️

I've made a couple of edits to your paragraph - thank you SO MUCH for getting it started - it's so much easier to edit than to write in the first place 💖

Reproducible research is necessary to ensure that scientific work can be trusted. Funders and publishers are beginning to require that publications include access to the underlying data and the analysis code. The goal is to ensure that all results can be independently verified and built upon in future work. This is sometimes easier said than done. Sharing these research outputs means understanding data management, library sciences, sofware development, and continuous integration techniques: skills that are not widely taught or expected of academic researchers and data scientists. The Turing Way is a handbook to support students, their supervisors, funders and journal editors in ensuring that reproducible data science is "too easy not to do". It will include training material on version control, analysis testing, and open and transparent communication with future users, and build on Turing Institute case studies and workshops. This project is openly developed and any and all questions, comments and recommendations are welcome at our github repository: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way.

All edits welcome too!

[KirstieJane]

With reference to reproducability, I just came from a meeting of the Sheffield reproducability network, a recent ofshoot of the new UK wide repoducability network. Is anyone already familiiar/involved with this? It could be useful to involve them in the project in some way.

I think this is a great new issue - something about mapping stakeholders and building a list of people we should link up with! @r-j-arnold or @pherterich - if you can open it that would be super helpful!