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

Headshot of 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

Job Description: Open Science Specialist

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.

From: openwashdata.org/pages/gallery/vmost/

The Opportunity

Journal Articles

Screenshot from Greene et al. (2021)

Journal Articles

Screenshot from Greene et al. (2021)

PDF reports

Screenshot from Soeters, Mukheibir, and Willetts (2021)

PDF reports

Screenshot from Soeters, Mukheibir, and Willetts (2021)

PDF reports + Dropbox

Screenshot from Mupinga et al. (2021)

PDF reports + Dropbox

Screenshot from Mupinga et al. (2021)

The Journey

The Product

What does final look like?

Screenshot of the wasteskipsblantyre R package documentation homepage at https://openwashdata.github.io/wasteskipsblantyre/.

wasteskipsblantyre documenation website by Yesaya et al. (2023) built with pkgdown

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?

Scan me!

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/

You can view source code of slides on GitHub

Or you can download slides in PDF format

This material is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International.

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.

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  • openwashdata
  • Hello! 👋
  • Lars Schöbitz
  • My role - Open Science Specialist
  • openwashdata community
  • openwashdata community
  • The Opportunity
  • Journal Articles
  • Journal Articles
  • PDF reports
  • PDF reports
  • PDF reports + Dropbox
  • PDF reports + Dropbox
  • The Journey
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  • The Product
  • What does final look like?
  • Engage
  • Our channels
  • course: data science for openwashdata
  • Goals
  • Goals (by August 2024)
  • Funding
  • ETH ORD Program
  • ETH ORD Program
  • Open Science Tools - HS23
  • Open Science Tools - HS23
  • Thanks 🌻
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