A group of organisations building non-profit, open-source tools for scholarship and publication has joined with open-science researchers in a new collaboration to develop a Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools (JROST).
While open technologies and services are becoming essential in science practices, so far, there has been no holistic effort to align these tools into a coherent ecosystem that can support the scientific experience of the future. To draw this missing map, the Joint Roadmap has been formed as an informal group of like-minded people and organisations with shared goals. To date, participating organisations include: Berkeley Institute of Data Science (BIDS), bioRxiv, Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko), Crossref, Dat Project, Earth and Space Science Open Archive (EESOAr), eLife, Hypothesis, Jupyter Project, Mozilla, Open Science Framework (OSF), ORCID, Public Knowledge Project, Public Library of Science (PLOS), Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), Wikimedia, and Zotero, joined by researchers: Samantha Hindle and Daniel Mietchen.
The common purpose is to deliver a vision for the tool chain or dashboard of the scientist of the future; a mission for what we hope to achieve and how we can work together; a set of user stories that together describe the problems to solve; and a preliminary roadmap for how projects and services can work together.
Through workshops and other coordinated activities, the Joint Roadmap will bring together technology organisations and researchers who are actively involved in the design and production of open scholarly infrastructure. Their objectives will be to explore shared goals and outcomes, develop cross-platform user stories, and identify obvious areas of mutual collaboration.
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