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This isn't really a psData topic, but I was wondering if anyone is interested in putting together a proposal for the CPS special issue on transparency in the social sciences.

I'm thinking that maybe a project on how social scientists use version control and (primarily) GitHub to make their research more transparent.

Anyone interested?

Did you read the full call? My impression was they were only accepting preregistered empirical studies.

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Christopher Gandrud < [email protected]> wrote:

This isn't really a psData topic, but I was wondering if anyone is interested in putting together a proposal for the CPS special issue on transparency in the social sciences http://www.ipdutexas.org/cps-transparency-special-issue.html.

I'm thinking that maybe a project on how social scientists use version control and (primarily) GitHub to make their research more transparent.

Anyone interested?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/rOpenGov/psData/issues/15.

I'm interested in the proposal because I have some experience with legislative data projects like Parltrack (EU), The Public Whip (UK) and Nos Députés (FR). These are examples of transparency-oriented projects that are at the juncture of academic and policy interests, and the last conference I attended was a collaboration between programmers and academics over French legislative data. Furthermore, when it comes to legislative (and especially amendments) data, preoccupations with the archival of replication data overlap with activist concerns.

I'm not sure, though, that I understand exactly what CPS is calling for (re: above).

I could also be interested to contributing if this goes forward and there are good matches.