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CW20 - 2020-03-31 to 2020-04-02 Idea 1 - CI1-CW20 - ‘State-of-the-Art’ Participants Dan Hobley Paddy McCann Emily Bell (chair) Jonathan Frawley (scribe) Reka Solymosi Iain Barrass Context / Research Domain Meta-research: the context is a user doing a literature review for any research software project (‘scientometrics’). We’re going to focus our proof-of-concept on speech to text research. Problem When starting a project on a topic outside current expertise, it can be difficult and time-consuming to ascertain the current state-of-the-art in terms of tools and techniques....

A CW20 - 2020-03-31 to 2020-04-02 Idea 9 - CI9-CW20: Storyboarding Sustainability Participants Emma Rand Matthew West Laurence Brown Mario Antonioletti Alison Clarke Context / Research Domain Many research domains where PIs may not have an awareness of reproducibility and sustainability best practice, may not consider it is relevant to their group or may not know where to start. Problem PIs are not always aware of the need to consider sustainability from the start of their project....

CW20 - 2020-03-31 to 2020-04-02 Remote Conferences and Collaboration: The Turing Way - CI5-CW20 Participants Sarah Gibson, Stephan Druskat, Louise Brown, Jurriaan H.Spaaks, Sam Mangham Context / Research Domain Issues on The Turing Way repository Due to the current COVID-19 crisis, remote work has become the default mode of working for most people in research, but it has also been common practice for different people and projects before that. How can we, working remotely, maintain the communities in this mode, and make sure that the community and the people involved in it remain healthy, and productive, and have all the information and technical support they need?...

Collaborations Workshop 2018 - 2018-03-26 Glotly Live - InterLang - CI7-CW18 Reporter Raquel Alegre - raquel.alegre@gmail.com Participants Reed Milewicz; Ann Gledson; Alexander Morley; Raquel Alegre; Mike Jackson Context / Research Domain Research Software; Training Problem Within the context of research software engineering tasks, researchers and developers must engage with many different languages and technologies. A common frustration is that developers find themselves needing to express the same concepts in code using different idioms in different languages, either when learning a new language for the first time or when revisiting a language they have not used for a while....

CW21 - 2021-03-30 Asparagus - CI1-CW21 Participants Jonathan Frawley / RSE, ARC, Durham University / e: jonathan.frawley@durham.ac.uk t: @df3n5 Gary Leeming / CDC University of Liverpool / gary.leeming@liverpool.ac.uk Jez Cope / Data Services Lead, The British Library, Yorkshire / j.cope@erambler.co.uk / he, him / w: eRambler tw: @jezcope ma: @petrichor@scholar.social gh&gl: jezcope Kirsty Pringle / SSI Project Manager / k.pringle@epcc.ed.ac.uk Context / Research Domain User centred design principles for research apps / citizen science...

CW21 Hack Day - 2021-03-31 to 2021-04-01 Lovelace-1842 - HP16-CW21 Hack Day idea proposer Becca Wilson Irma Hafidz Alison Clarke Talia Caplan Jannetta Steyn Idea name (provisional) Using Raspberry Pis to deliver Carpentries training in remote locations Context and/or research domain Low-to-Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) experience several challenges in building capacity of data analysis or software engineering skills that are necessary for contemporary data science. Several training programmes exist online, however these may not be easily accessible or in formats that can be utilised....