openwashdata

a community effort to bring open data practices to the WASH sector

Lars Schöbitz

lschoebitz@ethz.ch

Global Health Engineering

October 11, 2023

Hello! 👋

Lars Schöbitz

• Environmental Engineer
  
• Open Science Specialist at Global Health Engineering
• RStudio certified instructor for Data Science with R

My role - Open Science Specialist

• research data management
• reproducible workflows
• mindset for Open Science
• research communication
• teaching data science tools
• proposal writing

openwashdata community

openwashdata community

Vision

An active global community that applies FAIR principles (Wilkinson et al. 2016) to data generated in the great water, sanitation, and hygiene sector.

Mission

Empower WASH professionals to engage with tools and workflows for open data and code.

The Opportunity

Journal Articles

Journal Articles

PDF reports

PDF reports

PDF reports + Dropbox

PDF reports + Dropbox

The Journey

The Product

What does final look like?

Engage

Our channels

One-way communication

• Website: openwashdata.org
• Newsletter: buttondown.email/openwashdata

Two-way engagement

• Instant messaging: Element based on Matrix Chat | openwashdata-lobby | ghe-open
• Data donation ideas: github.com/openwashdata/data/issues
• Social media: Global Health Engineering LinkedIn

course: data science for openwashdata

ds4owd-001.github.io/website/

Zoom for 10 modules over 15 weeks at the following times:

• Start: 31st October 2023 - 2 pm to 4:30 pm CET
• End: 6th February 2024 - 2 pm to 4:30 pm CET

This course is:

• free
• provides participants with a certificate
• using exclusively tools that are free and open source
• offers 1:1 coding support between lectures and beyond the course

Goals

Goals (by August 2024)

• Newsletter: 500 subscribers
• Website: 30 daily visits
• Data: 50 R data packages
• Course: 20 participants successfully complete the first course

Funding

ETH ORD Program

• Open Research Data Program of the ETH Board: https://ethrat.ch/en/eth-domain/open-research-data/

• ORD 1st Explore (150k), our funded proposal: https://openwashdata.org/pages/gallery/proposal/

• ORD 2nd Contribute (30k), our funded proposal: https://github.com/openwashdata-dev/proposal-eth-ord-scheme-contribute/blob/main/proposal-eth-ord-scheme-contribute.md

• ORD 2nd Explore (150k) guidelines, due 29th February 2024: https://ethrat.ch/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Application-Guidelines_TrackA_Explore_2nd_call_FINAL.pdf

• ORD 6th Contribute (30k) guidelines, due 12th December 2023: https://ethrat.ch/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Application-guidelines_TrackC-Contribute-projects-6th-call-FINAL.pdf

ETH ORD Program

We draw your attention to the fact that the Contribute calls are suitable for young researchers (PhD and postdoc) who would like to add value to their data within their projects.

Open Science Working Group Email (2023-10-05)

Open Science Tools - HS23

Open Science Tools - HS23

Keen to learn the use of Open Science tool for collaborative scientific writing?

Check out: ost-hs23.github.io/website/syllabus

• Day 1: 17th October 2023 - 08:30 am to 12:30 pm CET
• Day 2: 24th October 2023 - 08:30 am to 12:30 pm CET
• ECTS: 0.5

Thanks 🌻

This project was supported by the Open Research Data Program of the ETH Board.

The slides were created via revealjs and Quarto: https://quarto.org/docs/presentations/revealjs/

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References

Greene, Nicola, Sarah Hennessy, Tate W. Rogers, Jocelyn Tsai, and Francis L. de los Reyes III. 2021. “The Role of Emptying Services in Provision of Safely Managed Sanitation: A Classification and Quantification of the Needs of LMICs.” Journal of Environmental Management 290 (July): 112612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112612.

Mupinga, Ratidzaishe T, Tanaka M Chatema, Savanna R Perumal, Eva Mary, et al. 2021. “Addendum of Data Related to Drying of Faecal Sludge from on-Site Sanitation Facilities and Fresh Faeces.” Gates Open Res 4 (188): 188.

Soeters, S, P Mukheibir, and J Willetts. 2021. “Treatment Technologies in Practice: On-the-Ground Experiences of Faecal Sludge and Wastewater Treatment.”

Wilkinson, Mark D., Michel Dumontier, IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Gabrielle Appleton, Myles Axton, Arie Baak, Niklas Blomberg, et al. 2016. “The FAIR Guiding Principles for Scientific Data Management and Stewardship.” Scientific Data 3 (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18.

Yesaya, Mabvuto, Limbani Msuku, Elizabeth Tilley, and Sebastian Camilo Loos. 2023. “Wasteskipsblantyre: Locations of Public Waste Skips in Blantyre, Malawi.” https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6470427.