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Mapping the Landscape of Digital Research Tools Working Meeting

12th WG meeting: Creating a visual map of the categorisation schema of digital research tools

Thursday, 22 February 2024

12:00-13:30 UTC

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A few logistics

  • Background: About the Working Group
  • Shared Google folder for the WG meetings & outputs
  • Documentation on shared wiki page
  • How to participate during this meeting:
    • 📝 Sign in & take notes in our collaborative Google doc
    • 📹 Discussions recorded for internal use
    • 🖐 Raise hand & unmute
    • 💬 Add to the chat
  • Take a moment to read our guiding principles and how to report a breach at the top of the Google doc.
  • RECORD!

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Today’s meeting agenda

Aims:

  • To continue describing the categories of research tools found in the different research data lifecycle stages.
  • To discuss and provide feedback on wireframes and mockups of the visual map of digital research tools (created by Adam Vials Moore)

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Time (UTC)

Meeting agenda item

Lead

12:00 - 12:05

Welcome and housekeeping (5 min)

Facilitator: Connie

12:05 - 12:30

Status update from outstanding task groups

(Conceptualise, Plan, Fund, Collect, Analyse and Store)

Task group leads & members

12:30 - 13:00

Deliverable 3: Visual Map of Digital Research Tools

Adam Vials Moore / All

13:00 - 13:25

Deliverable 2: Categorisation Schema of Research Tools

Start Breakout Exercise

All groups

13:25 - 13:30

Concluding remarks and next steps: �VP22 Session submission

Connie

All

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An update from the task groups

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Deliverable 2: Categorisation Schema of Research Tools

  • Complete the exercise in task groups
  • Do not delete any information in the tabs (use Process) as an example
  • Where possible try to identify tool category
  • Provide your rationale for selection of the top 3 tools

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Steps agreed to finalising Deliverable 2

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Deliverable 2: Categorisation Schema of Research Tools

�Conceptualise (Richard Pitts)

Plan (Rory Macneil)

Fund (Richard Pitts)

Collect (Marcelo Garcia)

Analyse (Jon Starr)

Store (Jon Starr)

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Visual Map of Digital Research Tools

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https://adamvialsmoore-jisc.shinyapps.io/r-proto/

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  • Ensure underlying data at heart
  • Maps / visualisations built on top

  • Living information
  • Opportunities for others

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Breakout exercise

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Provide a 1-sentence description for each tool category type identified.

  • In your groups, go to the first tab of the Landscape Review Google Sheet
  • Provide a 2-3 sentence description of the tool category type.

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VP22 Session Submission

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Next WG Meeting: Thursday 21 March, 12:00 UTC

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  • Meeting next week to draft deliverables - who wants to join?
  • We have two more WGs until we submit deliverables to the Secretariat
    • 21 March - Draft version of deliverables
    • 18 April - Complete version of deliverables