The Turing Way: Community-led resources for Open Research and Data Science

The Turing Way: Community-led resources for Open Research and Data Science 25 November 2025 @ekaroune, @turingway, CC-BY 4.0, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17698750 Dr Emma Karoune (she/her) Dr Emma Karoune she/her/ [email protected]/ @ekaroune / 0000-0002-6576-6053 ●Principal Researcher, Head of Research Community Management Team - TPS/Health @The Alan Turing Institute ●Project Lead, Advancing Biomedical Data Science Careers ●Steering Committee member @The Turing Way ●Fellow - SSI Fellow & ELIXIR-UK The Turing Way An Open Source guide on Data Science We involve and support a diverse community to make data science reproducible, ethical, collaborative and inclusive for everyone. A book An open-source project A culture of collaboration A global community @ekaroune, @turingway, CC-BY 4.0, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17698750 Project and Community Growth ● ~6 years ● >350 chapters ● Community resources, events, guidance, templates, training ● 556+ direct GitHub contributors and thousands of users https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3332807 In 2023-2024, we adopted the ‘Three Institutional Levels’ Find detailed roadmap: https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way/issues/4014 2019-2021: Community Level - Subsequent years saw ramped up work at Community level 2021-2023: Maintenance Level - Subsequent years saw ramped up work at WG level 2023-2024: Constitution Level - Subsequent years will see ramped up work at Constitution level Steering Committee Members Arielle Bennett Secretary (Rep of Practitioners Hub) Jim Madge: Secretary-Elect (Rep of Infra WG) Batool Almarzouq: Chair-Elect (Rep of Localisation WG) Kirstie Whitaker Chair (Rep of Jupyter DEI Project) Emma Karoune (Rep of Book Dash WG) Malvika Sharan & Precious Onyewuchi (Joint Rep of DSWB) Léllé Demertzi & Sara Villa (Joint-rep of CM WG) Liz Hare (Rep of Accessibility WG) Guide for Reproducible Research @ekaroune, @turingway, CC-BY 4.0, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10040169 Reproducibility Communication Collaboration Project design Ethical research Community handbook The Turing Way Guides @ekaroune, @turingway, CC-BY 4.0, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10040169 Thanks to our community of contributors & users! Strengthening accessibility Narrow, disability related sense Wider sense of accessibility Set of community-wide, behavioural, social, technical decisions we take to ensure people with disabilities are welcome and are able to participate in a community or event. Practices that improve and enable participation of more people in the community What has to be accessible in Turing Way Project? ● The Book ● Tools ○ Website ○ Meetings/events ○ Meeting planning ○ Messaging ○ Repository platform ○ Social media @ekaroune, @turingway, CC-BY 4.0, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17698750 Alexandra Araujo Alvarez “Accessibility and inclusion should be a key consideration in any community action … The working group reviews and suggests practices that allow an active participation from everyone, including people with disabilities” Accessibility in Data Science session: https://youtu.be/ARMs7C_wE04?si=zcoV80WTh691lAzf Accessibility working group member Recognition Cite as: The Turing Way Community. (2021). The Turing Way: A handbook for reproducible, ethical and collaborative research (1.0.1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5671094 @ekaroune, @turingway, CC-BY 4.0, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17698750 Stengers Isabelle., Another Science is Possible: A Manifesto for Slow Science. Polity Press (2016). | Eghbal.. N., “Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure. Ford Foundation (2016). | Olson, D., Meyerson, J., Parsons, M., Castro, J., Lassere, M., Wright, D., ... Acker, A.. Information Maintenance as a Practice of Care. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3236409. (2019) These roles carry out essential “glue work” of translating knowledge effectively by – involving diverse members through collaboration – promoting equitable, fair and ethical practices in research –identifying gaps or challenges as well as ways to fix them When formalised and rewarded, people’s skills and contributions in research through traditionally invisible/hidden/undervalued work becomes valuable and recognisable by the system. Formalising Research Infrastructure Roles The Turing Way Guides @malvikasharan @turingway, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7258956 @turingway, https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/collaboration/research-infrastructure-roles.html, CC-BY 4.0 image by The Turing Way and Scriberia -The Turing Way Practitioners Hub in close collaboration with UK orgs (government, industry, public sector) -The Turing’s Skill Policy Award for engaging with policy ecosystem - led by Dr. Emma Karoune Broader Recognition for Research Infrastructure Roles @ekaroune, @turingway, CC-BY 4.0, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17698750 Recognising all kinds of roles through recommendations & policies. UK Research and Development Roadmap Attract, retain, develop the talented, diverse people and teams. Ensure that our science, research, innovation system is responsive to our society Towards better recognition for Research Infrastructure Specialists (Australia) Professional staff become more valuable with experience and need to be rewarded as such – otherwise they will go elsewhere. Australian universities need to improve how they reward and recognise this important cohort of specialists, and the NCRIS Project Directors are calling for a change in how [Research Infrastructure] specialists are classified. Preprint: A manifesto for rewarding and recognising Team Infrastructure Roles, doi.org/10.53962/knm3-bnvx https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-research-and-development-roadmap - UK Reference, https://anff.org.au/news/towards-better-recognition-for-research-infrastructure-specialists - Australia Reference Policies / Guidelines for Open Leadership Develop & share Share resources Review and update Maintain & improve Make it global Share best practices Pathways for Collaboration @ekaroune, @turingway, CC-BY 4.0, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17698750 Mentored Contribution Collaboration Cafes Book Dash Events (in-person & virtual) @ekaroune, @turingway, CC-BY 4.0, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17698750 Meeting you where you are! i. Join the community ii. Learn a new skill iii. Share your skills iv. Collaborate with others v. Mentor others’ contributions vi. Represent this community We value your participation! @ekaroune, @turingway, CC-BY 4.0, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17698750