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I just started as a senior developer at COS. I'm actually on vacation right now but I can attest to a week of productivity with an awesome team. They have done and are doing things to further science every day.

I'm a developer at COS - things we've done have been mentioned here before, but it's a cool feeling to see a link to our homepage on HN :)

I don't know how much I'll be online for the rest of the day, but I'll make sure others at the Center are aware of this post and I'm certain someone will be able to answer any questions.

I can help answer questions about what we do or how/why we do it.

Some info: we're mostly a web development shop, and everything we do is 100% free and open source. Our flagship product is the Open Science Framework (http://osf.io, http://github.com/CenterForOpenScience/osf.io). We are also creating a free, open data set of scholarly (meta)data (http://www.share-research.org/; http://github.com/CenterForOpenScience/SHARE). You might have seen us in the news recently for the Reproducibility Project: Psychology (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716; http://osf.io/ezcuj). We're always looking for mission-driven developers. Feel free to get in touch.

Thanks Jeff and Lindsy. The "Reproducibility Project" is fascinating and should be very beneficial.

In your (meta)data efforts are you working with DublinCore?

http://dublincore.org/

Also, there are a few organizations out there specializing in archiving scientific work that might be worth checking out:

http://omeka.org/

https://perma.cc/

http://wellcomelibrary.org/what-we-do/developing-and-caring-...

I'm sure there are others, but I don't have the links handy at the moment.

BTW, you might want to note that the "about" link on COS is giving a 404 error at the moment:

http://centerforopenscience.org/about.html

Thanks for posting.

The DublinCore schema is quite widely used--many of the institutional repositories that we harvest from use it.

I know of Omeka--I've seen it used quite a bit. We should look into some sort of add-on connection with it and the OSF.

perma.cc is new to me, but our partnerships lead has been evaluating preservation services that we could enlist in archiving OSF content. I'll make sure to pass it along in case he hasn't seen it. We are going to great lengths to ensure our users that we care about long-term sustainability and that we see no value in lock-in.

Collecting Genomics looks very neat; I'll have to reach out.

And thanks for the note about the about link! I'll get a fix submitted tonight unless someone beats me to it.

By the way, if you come across other initiates, feel free to reach out. First name at cos dot io. This is good stuff.

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