Open Source and Open Science

Overview

Questions

• What is open science?
• What is open source development?
• How are open science and open source development valuable?

Objectives

• Define open science and open source development
• Explain pros and cons
• List attributes that make a research project open
• Explain how you could publish at the end or beginning

Here’s some example text for the lesson.

Challenge 1: Does USGS support open development?

TRUE or FALSE

USGS allows open development practices which do not violate peer review requirements.

Show me the solution

TRUE. You can start a provisional release and follow open development practices. We’ll talk more about that in later episodes.

Key Points

• Publishing code is a critical part of making science reproducible
• Code that is published is less likely to contain mistakes or errors
• Open development makes it easier to make small changes and updates available to an audience, and allows for checks in real-time