Open Science in the Two!Ears Project - Experiences and Best Practices

H Wierstorf, F Winter, S Spors, "Open Science in the Two!Ears Project - Experiences and Best Practices," in 173rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the 8th Forum Acusticum, (2017). [ link ] [ presentation ]

Bibtex

@inproceedings{Wierstorf2017c,
    title     = {{Open Science in the Two!Ears Project -- Experiences and
                  Best Practices}},
    author    = {Wierstorf, Hagen and Winter, Fiete and Spors, Sascha},
    booktitle = {173rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
                 and the 8th Forum Acusticum},
    publisher = {Acoustical Society of America},
    address   = {Boston, MA},
    month     = {June},
    year      = {2017}
}

Abstract

Two!Ears was an EU funded project for binaural auditory modeling with ten international partners involved. One of the project goals was to follow an Open Science approach in all stages. This turned out to be a challenging task as the project involved huge amounts of software, acoustical measurements, and data from listening tests. On the other hand, it was obvious from the positive experience with the Auditory Modelling Toolbox that an Open Science approach would have a positive impact and foster progression afterwards. As there existed no ready solution to achieve this goal at the beginning of the project, different paths for data management were tested. It was especially challenging to provide a solution for data storage. Here, the goal was not only the long term accessibility of the data, but also the revision control of public and private data for the development inside the project. In the end, the project was able to make most of its software and data publicly available, but struggled to apply the reproducible research principle to most of its papers. This contribution will discuss best practices to actively support reproducible research in large-scale projects in the acoustic community, points out problems and solutions.