Resources and tools

This page is intended to be a living document for SWG and IAT members to share useful information and resources related to Open Science, programming and Data Visualisation. Know of something that should be here? Suggest it via a GitHub pull request or by emailing iat-dml@zalf.de.

Some documents that provide guiding principles:

• Handling Research Data at ZALF Guidelinbes

• ZALF open access policy

• BonaRes Data Policy

• Previous ZALF evaluations

• ZALF organisational policy

• DFG research ethics

• Liebniz center Good Scientific Practice

• FAIR Research Data: A Practical Handbook for the Earth & Environmental Sciences

Open Science communities and Initiatives

• Open Science Awesome List

• The Turing Way’s Guide to Planning a Community - A guide to planning and building a community around open science, including tips on communication, governance, and sustainability.

• AG Open Science - German-speaking OKF working group “Open Science”. Connecting active members of the open science community and advocating for better framework conditions for research, collaboration, and publication.

• German Reproducibility Network (GRN) - A network of researchers and institutions in Germany working to improve the reproducibility of scientific research.

• Reproducibility for Everyone (R4Everyone) - A community-driven initiative to promote reproducibility in scientific research through training, resources, and advocacy.

• FOSTER Open Science - A concluded European project that provides training and resources to support the adoption of open science practices.

Data visualisation

• Fundamentals of Data Visualization

• Open Visualisation Academy

• Dataviz Inspiration: A collection curated by Yan Holtz of some of the best data visualizations available

R

• What they forgot to teach you about R

Quarto

• Beautiful slides with RevealJS and Quarto

Generative AI

• Dictionary of AI coding

• gettingstuffdoneai - Directory of Generative AI Tools and Models, categorized by use case and functionality.

• KI-campus - Numerous free courses on AI and related topics, including data science, machine learning, and ethical considerations in AI.

Tools and Software

• Academic Cloud

• TIB AIsstant

• ORKG Ask: Open Source scholarly search and exploration system powered by Vector Search, Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs

• Rspace: Interoperable research tools across domains, facilitating machine actionable passage of data and metadata through all stages of the research lifecycleinteroperable research tools across domains, facilitating machine actionable passage of data and metadata through all stages of the research lifecycle

• EU alternatives for software - A directory of software alternatives to popular proprietary software, with a focus on European users and organizations.

• Inkscape - Open source vector graphics editor, alternative to Adobe products, useful for creating and editing figures for publications and presentations. Available via the ZALF baramundi client.

• SoRA Geolinking service for social science data

Training

• Digital Research Academy - a trainer network focused on Open Science, Data Literacy, and Research Software Engineering (DRA’s [Zenodo collection] (https://zenodo.org/communities/digiresacademy/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest)).

• BERD academy

• BERD reproducible research course

• NFDI4Earth - Educational Portal

• Assured Training -Ensures the safe, legal, and ethical use of sensitive data through targeted training and certification.

• Liebniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS)