Supporting the adoption of FAIR and reproducible digital scholarship with Renku
At a glance
- Project leader : Dr. Josef Spillner
- Project team : Panagiotis Gkikopoulos
- Project status : completed
- Funding partner : Federal government (Projektgebundene Beiträge / P-5 Wissenschaftliche Information)
- Project partner : Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ETH, Hochschule Luzern
- Contact person : Josef Spillner
Description
The goal of this project is to significantly increase the
visibility of
a mature solution, anticipating the adoption of Renku as a tool
to
improve research management in Switzerland, leveraging existing
knowledge, resources and networks built in the context of past
and
current projects supported by swissuniversities. This approach will
be
based on the Renku platform, a pragmatic and intuitive approach to
good
data and code management, and therefore a valuable entry point for
the
implementation of reproducible, FAIR and collaborative science in
the
digital age.
We contribute demonstration and improvements.
Demonstration: Using Renku to manage research output (raw data
from
continuous experiments at daily and hourly intervals, augmented
and
annotated insights data, publications, tooling, testbed) of the
Microservice Artefact Observatory (MAO) coordinated by ZHAW and
involving academic partners from eight countries.
Improvements: Applying the same observatory in batch and CI/CD
(continuous integration/continuous deployment) mode to ensure the
Renku
software artefacts (Helm charts, language-specific) adhere to
high
quality standards, leading to preservation of Renku’s software
development history through Renku itself.