Content

Course content

The course curriculum contains theory and interactive exercises as outlined in the table below. This is the curriculum for all the OSTE courses and workshops. The teaching material is openly available (see links below).

Topic

Content

Link to material

Introduction Introduction to course Presentation
General introduction to OS Presentation
Tools and approaches Data management plan, data papers and registered reports Presentation
Executable documents with Quarto

Presentation

BioST@TS quarto tutorial

Data life cycle and management Data life cycle BioST@TS data lifecycle
Data handling Presentation
Make a function Presentation
Write an R package BioST@TS R package tutorial
Data repositories Data discovery and access - GBIF Presentation
Darwin Core and AI Presentation

Wonders of GBIF

Biases in GBIF data

Presentation

Presentation

Living Norway R package to publish data Material
Reproducible workflows Reproducible workflows - targets

Presentation

BioST@TS targets tutorial

Reproducibility exercise

Version control BioST@TS targets tutorial
Analysis

Systematic reviews

Meta analysis

Presentation

Presentation

Best practice in data analysis Material
Best practice for reporting scientific results Material

Other resources

  • BES guides The British Ecological Society has a series of guides to research excellence on topics like data management, reproducible coding and more.
  • BioST@TS BioST@TS is an online platform with everything you need to know to write your thesis in R.