Skills for Science in a Digital World: Discovering, Managing, and Connecting your Research, Data, and Software

This workshop was given during the SRI 2024 conference in Helsinki, Finland. 

In this workshop, we introduced students and early-career researchers to the principles of open science, data, and software, as well as the benefits open practices can have for their own research careers, for science, and for society. The workshop will teach skills for boosting your research and career and introduce useful tools for your digital presence and for working with data and software.You will learn how to connect your publications, data, software, and other research outputs to your digital CV and best practices for working with data and software, sharing these and other research outputs to get credit for your work, and connecting them to your publications. We’ll discuss how these practical impacts of working openly can boost participants’ work and make research more efficient and practice hands-on skills to advance participants’ careers through open science practices. Participants in this workshop will be able to define open science, discuss the benefits and challenges of open science, and identify practices that enable open science. Participants will learn strategies for sharing research outputs, data, and software as openly as possible. This course is designed for students or other researchers new to open science; no previous experience with publishing research is required.