MEASURING OPEN SCIENCE

A Metric Where Assessment Meets Excitement

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TITLE: KIPIMO, A NEW USABLE METRIC

TEAM: SPACE GRABBERS, MAKERERE UNIVERSITY-UGANDA

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The Challenge.CHAL

• We chose Measuring Open science as our challenge.
• Inspiration: Uganda and other developing countries are still in the infant stages of participation in the global space community. We believe that a New metric will be helpful in gauging how impactful and effective the Open science activities will be.

• Kipimo is the solution that can solve the challenge by displaying a percentile as a metric while making the feedback acquisition process, from the researchers on open science activities fun and exciting.

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• It accelerates the impact and effectiveness of Open Science activities through awarding exclusive documents and recommending related useful data and results to the researcher.

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Kipimo The Solution:

We have developed a metric system that calculates the averages from feedback given by researchers in form of numbers that show:

• the extent to which they have understood the science in NASA’s shared resources.
• and the extent to which they hope to use it in future scientific work and research following on a scale of 1-5.

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Metric Description Continued

• This feedback is given in a Chat bot by the researcher in anticipation of a promised reward of recommended related data from NASA and some exclusive documents.
• These averages are fed as inputs into a formula which displays the effects and impact of open science as percentages..

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�In-Depth Explanation Of The Metric�

• Say the first, second and third person answer the first question in the chat bot ,which is:

To what extent do you think you have understood the content shared in the NASA data or results on a scale of 1-5?

• If the answers are 3, 4 and 5 respectively, the system calculates the average which is 4 in this case. The system also calculates the percentage from the formular:

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• This percentage is displayed on different cards that classify all the documents basing on the main key words in them.

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Kiplimo dashboard Link: http://kipimo.s3-website.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/

Kiplimo code link: https://github.com/Space-Grabbers/nasa-earth

Tutorial

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A look into the future

• We hope to achieve a system that is very user friendly.
• An extension that is not destructive to the researcher.
• A system that uniquely identifies feedback from different researchers and ensures privacy of the captured feedback.
• Implementation of a globe for visualization of the metrics.

This metric is quite straightforward but really accurate. The system is captivating to users in terms of giving feedback in return for a reward.

The system has a great future in terms of delivering the intended purpose of the metric and effectiveness. The system will be easily adopted because it has a social media aspect to it (A chat bot) which is really interactive.

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Link to the unfinished globe:

http://spacegrabbersnasa.s3-website.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/

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