Overview

OST-HS23: Authoring and Publishing Workflows for Collaborative Scientific Writing

Lars Schöbitz

Global Health Enginnering

August 7, 2023

Who has a LinkedIn account?

Who has an ORCID iD?

Who has a GitHub account?

Who uses a reference management system? (e.g. Mendeley, EndNote, Zotero)

Who has a personal homepage?

Who has published a report, scientific article, or similar?

Your turn

Think about the last time you published a written document:

  • Which tasks gave you joy?
  • Which tasks were challenging or frustrating?

Take some written notes.

02:00

OST-HS23

authoring and publishing workflows for collaborative scientific writing

Every student will have a personal, published, free website that links to their (academic) profiles, shows slides, and has the potential to be used as a (scientific) blog.

Quarto
RStudio IDE
Zotero
Git
GitHub
Matrix

Why? -> Reproduciblity

What is Quarto?

Quarto is a new, open-source,
scientific and technical
publishing system

the goal is to make the process of creating
and collaborating dramatically better

A schematic representing the multi-language input (e.g. Python, R, Observable, Julia) and multi-format output (e.g. PDF, html, Word documents, and more) versatility of Quarto.

ost-hs23.github.io/website

matrix.to/#/#ghe-open:staffchat.ethz.ch

Instructions on openwashdata.org (under Get Started -> Chat)

Thanks

Contact: lschoebitz@ethz.ch
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