Facilitated Collaboration & Communication

True collaboration among grantees from multiple global institutions and diverse disciplines produces innovative and reproducible outcomes. A critical component of successful team research is skilled facilitation by subject experts, who can promote contextual verbal and written communication of early, shared outputs within the teams and the wider community.

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Goals

Identify open source workspace(s) for conducting and archiving discussions and co-authoring outputs.
Investigate costs, levels of expertise and roles of existing research facilitators, and evaluations of team success as defined by outputs and researcher opinions.
Partner with a funded research project amenable to (or conducting) facilitated collaboration and establish an experimental design for collecting evidence.
Collect best practices for communicating early outputs and encouraging reviews/revisioning.
Determine how collaborative behaviors in the workspace can be measured and incentivized.

Community Projects

Birdaro

Launched

| Updated: 9 Jul 2024

Solution: Facilitated Collaboration & Communication

Birdaro is a project to support leaders of open source software (OSS) projects as they consider scaling and plans for long term sustainability. It is funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and hosted by the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE).

Organization:

Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE)

Home page | Project page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Science of Team Science, Training

CURIOSS: Community for University and Research Institution OSPOs

Launched

| Updated: 23 Aug 2024

Solution: Facilitated Collaboration & Communication

CURIOSS is a community that facilitates networking and collaboration between university-based and research institution Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs).

Organization:

CURIOSS

Project page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Communication

Digital Research Academy

Launched

| Updated: 23 Aug 2024

Solution: Facilitated Collaboration & Communication

The Digital Research Academy is a grassroots trainer network offering training with the goal of improving the quality of research.

Organization:

The Digital Research Academy

Project Page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Training

Editorial Facilitation & Communication of Team Research

Planning

| Updated: 9 Dec 2022

Solution: Facilitated Collaboration & Communication

An Editorial Facilitator who is a subject specialist convenes discussions with team members to review and interpret their findings in light of the latest published evidence; (s)he writes and continually updates a Living Narrative based on these discussions, citing team-reviewed incremental findings and posting openly for community review.

Organization:

Rapid Science

Keywords:
Collaboration, Early Sharing, Editorial, Rewards

Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT)

Mature

| Updated: 24 Jun 2024

Solution: Facilitated Collaboration & Communication

FORRT is a Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training advancing research transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics through pedagogical reform and meta-scientific research.

Organization:

FORRT

Project page

Keywords:
Facilitation, Research on Research, Templates, Training

Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI)

Launched

| Updated: 13 May 2024

Solution: Facilitated Collaboration & Communication

The Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) is a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative which has brought seven generalist repositories together into a collaborative working group focused on establishing “a common set of cohesive and consistent capabilities, services, metrics, and social infrastructure” and increasing awareness and adoption of the FAIR principles.

Organization:

National Institutes of Health: Office of Data Science Strategy
Home page | Project page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Facilitation, Policy, Templates

Global Open Research Commons

In progress

| Updated: 16 May 2024

Solution: Facilitated Collaboration & Communication

The need for coordination of data infrastructure on various levels (country, continent, discipline, sector) arises from the emergence of so called “Open Science Commons” or “Data commons”, which provide a shared virtual space or platform that presents the researcher with a marketplace for data and services. the RDA is coordinating the work needed to realise a Global Open Research Commons (GORC) to enable a global network of interoperable data commons.

Organization:

Research Data Alliance
Home page | Project page

Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Communication, Facilitation

Infra Finder

Launched

| Updated: 20 May 2024

Solution: Facilitated Collaboration & Communication

Infra Finder is an online tool designed to be the go-to resource for anyone navigating the complex landscape of infrastructure services and standards enabling open research and scholarship.

Organization:

Invest in Open Infrastructure

Home page | Project page

Keywords:
Collaboration, Facilitation, Technology

Openscapes

Launched

| Updated: 24 Aug 2024

Solution: Facilitated Collaboration & Communication

Openscapes is a movement and approach that promotes open, inclusive practices in research, particularly in the fields of environmental and earth sciences. We provide structures for technical skill-building, collaborative teamwork, and inclusive community development.

Organization:

Openscapes

Project Page

Keywords:
Collaboration, Facilitation, Technology, Training

RoamResearch Discourse Graphs

Launched

| Updated: 27 Jul 2023

Solution: Facilitated Collaboration & Communication

The Discourse Graph extension enables Roam users to seamlessly add additional semantic structure to their notes, including specified page types and link types that model scientific discourse, to enable more complex and structured knowledge synthesis work, such as a complex interdisciplinary literature review, and enhanced collaboration with others on this work.

Organization:

University of Washington
Home Page | Project Page

Keywords:
Collaboration, Communication, Technology

Toolbox Dialogue Initiative

Launched

| Updated: 23 Aug 2024

Solution: Facilitated Collaboration & Communication

The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative facilitates collaborative capacity building and investigates the practice of collaborative research, including team science, with an emphasis on understanding cross-disciplinarity and knowledge production.

Organization:

Toolbox Dialogue Initiative

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Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Communication, Facilitation, Science of Team Science