Save the Date: Contributorship Badges Call Aug 27

Mozilla

At the Science Lab, prototyping is an opportunity to learn how to work openly within the research community. Together, we can 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. This week marks our final push to an MVP!

WHAT: Our monthly project call (fourth Thursday of the month). Open to anyone interested in helping build Contributorship Badges for Science (PaperBadger)

WHEN: Aug 27, 11am ET

PAD: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/sciencelab-project-call-aug27

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.

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 paper. By authenticating against ORCID, a user can issue badges to a valid ORCID id, the standard unique researcher identifier. Miss our last 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 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 27, 11am ET

PAD: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/sciencelab-project-call-aug27