Save the Date: Contributorship Badges Call Aug 14

Mozilla

At  the Science Lab, prototyping has been an opportunity to learn how to work openly within the research community to build projects helping researchers leverage the open web. This summer, we’ve been working with many of you to finish Paper Badger, our Contributorship Badges prototype.

There’s been a flurry of interest and activity as we build our MVP. We’ve scheduled a second project call this month to help you get involved, make some decisions and answer any questions you might have.

WHAT: Call for anyone interested in helping build Contributorship Badges for Science (PaperBadger)
WHEN: Aug 14, 10am ET
PAD: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/sciencelab-project-call-aug14
VIDEO LINK: https://plus.google.com/events/c1rh8bkk79polbp2d4dfl1un2as

What we’re doing

We’re testing ways to use open badges to assign digital credentials to contributions on academic papers. As the research environment becomes more digital, we want to test how we can use this medium to help bring transparency and credit for individuals in the publication process.

The past few months, our communities have been working together to build a prototype that uses Mozilla’s Open Badges to issue and store badges based on contributor roles on a scholarly paper. By authenticating against ORCID, a user can reliably issue badges to a valid ORCID, the standard unique researcher identifier. Miss our paper badger call? You can watch our last project call here.

Minimal Viable Product: Sept 1

By the end of summer, we aim to have a prototype that tests out the following workflow:

  • Publishers send us info on a new paper (DOI, author emails)
  • Authors select their roles and claim badges for each role they contributed to a paper
  • These badges appear on the online version of the paper

How you can help

We’re looking for designers and developers who want to bring transparency and credit to the scholarly workflow. Want to jump in?

  • Good first bugs: This is a good place to start if you’re new to the project. These issues are all mentored.
  • Design: We need some help designing interfaces and deciding how these badges will look on a paper page / on an ORCID page.
  • Writing code: Ready to write some JavaScript with us? These issues are waiting for you!
  • Discuss: There are still some open ended questions for this prototype. Join in on the discussion.

See the full roadmap here.

Join us!

WHAT: Call for anyone interested in helping build Contributorship Badges for Science (PaperBadger)
WHEN: Aug 14, 10am ET
PAD: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/sciencelab-project-call-aug14
VIDEO LINK: https://plus.google.com/events/c1rh8bkk79polbp2d4dfl1un2as