Third Handbook Hackathon

Authors

Alex van der Jagt, FGB, sec. KNOP

Chris Hartgerink (host)

Diogenes Cruz de Arcelino

Elisa Rodenburg, UBVU

Jessica Hrudey, FGB

Jolien Scholten, UB

Lena Karvovskaya, UBVU

Stephanie van de Sandt, UBVU

Tycho Hofstra, UBVU

Published

September 30, 2024

In the third hackathon for the Research Support Handbook, held on September 25th, 2024, contributors gathered to make significant progress towards migrating the handbook to the VU domain (rdm.vu.nl). The event centered around sprinting to a finish line by refining existing content and ensuring accessibility standards are met.

Key activities included:

  1. Proofreading and Topic Refinement: Participants reviewed existing topics to ensure clarity and focus. This led to the realization that some topics, like “Data Publication,” would benefit from being split into more specific subtopics, such as “Open Science” or “Software Licensing.”

  2. Guide Titles Revision: We started normalizing guide titles into questions, making navigation easier and more value informed. We ideated options for guides now titled “Plan & Design” to be converted into actionable questions like “How do I plan for managing my data?”

  3. Alt Text Improvement: We reviewed existing alt texts for images and refined them to ensure accessibility. We also identified some remaining images that had no alt text, and added it.

  4. Image Selection: Contributors identified and proposed openly licensed images to enhance the visual appeal of the guides, with some creative choices from Zenodo’s RDM LEGO collection (Bres and Bittner 2024).

Overall, the hackathon was a productive session, and the handbook is now in its final stage, with the team preparing for the official launch on <rdm.vu.nl>. In next hackathons, we may focus on splitting existing topics and adding new ones, as our list of idea topics is growing rapidly.

Hackathon Issues

https://github.com/ubvu/open-handbook/issues/175 https://github.com/ubvu/open-handbook/issues/178

Hackathon Pull Requests

https://github.com/ubvu/open-handbook/pull/118 https://github.com/ubvu/open-handbook/pull/165 https://github.com/ubvu/open-handbook/pull/176 https://github.com/ubvu/open-handbook/pull/177 https://github.com/ubvu/open-handbook/pull/179 https://github.com/ubvu/open-handbook/pull/180 https://github.com/ubvu/open-handbook/pull/181 https://github.com/ubvu/open-handbook/pull/184 https://github.com/ubvu/open-handbook/pull/186 https://github.com/ubvu/open-handbook/pull/188

References

Bres, Ewa Elizabeth, and Christian Bittner. 2024. “A collection of AI generated images visualising various RDM aspects.” Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11147887.