openmodelingfoundation
Adding WG Meeting Minutes to Website
Would it be possible to create a tab so people can know what's going on with the WG? We came to this idea because we have collaborators from countries (i.e., China) without access to open document platforms (i.e., Google Docs). This would allow them (and anyone interested) in getting an idea of what the WG have been workig on. I don't think this should be mandatory, but open to groups who would like to have their meetings' minutes open. Although I don't think I can directly contribute to redesigning the website, we might have collaborators in our WG that may be interested. :) Please let me know what we can do to help with this! Thanks a lot in advance!
Hi Tati,
Posting the WG minutes is a good idea. That is why we added a page to the website for each WG to manage, and where it could report activities. Documents can also be posted to the OSF OMF project, with a link to the web site. We could also add a category to the GitHub discussion forum.
Hi Tati! As Michael and Charlotte already mentioned we are definitely happy to support this but there's a few options to consider for posting meeting minutes (and probably other documents, working papers, etc?). Common to all three would be some consistent protocol for organizing the documents + metadata.
- use OMF's Open Science Framework project - we would need to have you all register with OSF and then establish consistent protocols for organizing the documents + metadata. Possible cons are the fact that OSF is a US-based startup that may experience challenging fiscal times with precipitous drops in public science investment
- Zenodo, with custom community tags - benefits are DOIs and the persistence guarantees of CERN / EU - https://zenodo.org/communities
- figshare (?) - don't have much experience with figshare but it seems like it would also support it
- any others?
Thanks a lot for the answers! I will add @vitorhirata to the conversation. He offered to take the lead on this (thanks again, Vitor!). I actually liked the idea of it being attached somehow to the Website very much (i.e., the "all in one place" approach). What would be the drawbacks of it?