STAPLE: Software for Scientists
Welcome!
- Project management: were any of us ever actually trained for this?
- Individual projects with one or two other local collaborators can be quite complex with many moving parts
- Now, add other people, institutions, geopolitical regions, languages, cultures, and the complexity increases exponentially
- We’ve tried it all:
- Google docs!
- Crazy excel sheets!
Why Software?
- Project management software exists: Asana, Monday, Clickup, Trello
- That’s not designed for scientists
- Classroom software actually works ok (Canvas, Blackboard, etc.)
- What if we could have our own software, designed for our own problems?
Why Software?
- Creating Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) outputs is … hard
- New rules and laws that make metadata a necessity
- Lots of work, no good standards across science
- We probably have to be forced to do it
- As authorship –> contributorship becomes more complicated, we should be able to say who did what on a project and when
What is the Mission?
- Project Management software that allows you to document your project to improve transparency
- STAPLE (like the stapler ok?): Science Tracking Across the Project Lifespan
- This project has been funded by NASA and the Psychological Science Accelerator
STAPLE Structure
- Two main areas of work:
- An overall dashboard that demonstrates all projects, tasks, notifications and more
- A project focused area that shows tasks, data, progress, and more
Overall Dashboard
- Dashboard gives you an overview of everything you have in STAPLE
- You will be able to customize which blocks you want and where they are
Overall Dashboard
- Projects allows you to view and create projects
Overall Dashboard
- Tasks shows you all tasks and you can jump between projects and tasks
- Forms allows you to create metadata collection forms for all types of outputs
Overall Dashboard
- Notifications show you what projects, tasks, or other events have happened
- Labels allow you to create your own “credit” categories to label your final project summary
Project Dashboard
- Views are different depending on if you are a contributor or project manager.
- The project dashboard has lots of options for project tracking including contributors, teams, tasks, metadata, and notifications.
Project Dashboard
- Tasks show you the tasks for a project, add new tasks, kanban board views, etc.
- Elements are “buckets” to organize tasks and metadata forms for project summaries
- Contributors are individuals attached to the project
Project Dashboard
- Teams are ways to cluster contributions based on data collection, translation, or other structures
Project Dashboard
- Labels allow you to assign “credit” to tasks and people
- Form Data shows you the summary of metadata, download specific metadata json files, and see what’s missing
- Summary provides a human readable summary of the project, which can be organized in various structures to save for sharing (as well as the machine readable json forms)
- Settings include the project level metadata
Timeline
- Grant started October 2023
- MVP due October 2024
- Release as open source software
- Create a sustainable plan for our hosted version
- Community improvement
- Find more grant $
Last Notes
- Join our slack!
- We need beta testers and people to interview about the project
- Documentation, app, and more at https://staple.science/
- Erin Buchanan
- Marton Kovacs
- Engerst Yedra
- HU UI/UX Team
- Chris Hartgerink