Overview

Teaching: 15 min
Exercises: 45 min

Questions

• How do I work on the same documents as others?

• How do I share data using the cloud?

• How do I build citations with the rest of my team?

Objectives

• Use collaborative files

• Understand group allocations

Getting and sending (sensitive) data

Why not email?

• Not encrypted
• Cannot control access
• Cannot restrict when access ends
• Limited file size

Filesender as one mechanism for exchanging data.

Challenge - As a breakout room, securely send files around (10 minutes)

Share a dataset from a group drive in Cloudstor via Cloudstor token (link), inviting someone to the document and via FileSender

Collaboration and Citations

As academics we will collaborate on at least two of the following things:

• Papers
• Analysis
• Citations

Live Collaboration

Challenge: Investigate and Report. (45 minutes)

In your breakout groups, investigate one of the following paper+citation collaboration options. Make sure to see if you can get a group making edits to the same document and adding citations to the same bibliography.

Stuff to investigate with the resources below:

1. Make a group on whatever citation system you’re using. A group is defined as some sort of shared space where different members of your breakout room can add citations. (Bonus points for editing.)
2. Everyone add 1 citation from a paper they have open. Otherwise search for papers about FAIR. Use the tool’s automatic metadata harvesting if possible.
3. Everyone open up a shared document in whatever system you’re trying. A shared document is one where everyone can contribute changes and edits without needing to email the document around.
4. Try to add your citation to that shared document, along with a 1 sentence summary of the document (or a copy-paste from its abstract)
5. Try to generate a PDF.
6. Summarise your outcomes in the hackmd shared document.

• (Paper, version control, citations) Manubot and Github
• (Collaborative editing, collaborative citations) Google Docs and Paperpile
• (Collaborative editing, typesetting, citations) Overleaft and Zotero
• (Rmarkdown, paper, code, citations, version control) R markdown, Zotero, citations from zotero in R
• (Collaborative editing) Word 365 and zotero on your system

Key Points

• First key point. Brief Answer to questions. (FIXME)