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
Projects
Projects
Elements
Tasks
Tasks
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/