Building Open Science Skills and Cultural Competency in the Community: Knowing the Sky

Extended slidedeck for Knowing the Sky presentation in NASA's 2024 Software Workshop.

Knowing the Sky is a narrative-driven, interactive, self-paced course in open science data, tools, and techniques targeted to learners ranging from interested laypeople to experienced scientists. It centers on skills, data, and workflows that are highly relevant to research in planetary science and astronomy, and helps users gain multiple competencies necessary to build the open science ecosystem and facilitate scientific research. These include: (1) accessing and analyzing publicly-available NASA data, (2) using both general and discipline-specific Python open-source software libraries for data access, manipulation, analysis, and visualization, (3) creating, managing, and sharing open science workflows. The narrative components of the course are being developed by and in partnership with Native people; they will lead learners through engaging hands-on investigations of Native knowledge concepts relating to astronomy and planetary science.