Session 8 – Repositories and preregistration

The week before the workshop is spent on the two things on which the final task of the day depends: knowing where the materials of a case are kept and what their licence allows to be shared, and having a specification chosen and justified in the preregistration block of your report.

Work through	What you do	Timing
Social science data sources, section 3	The data behind the course, step by step: the Eurobarometer waves at GESIS and what their licence allows, the World Bank indicators, the panel on OSF. Skim the map in section 2 for the archive that holds the data of your own project.	45 minutes
Reproducibility repositories	Sections 1 to 5: what a repository has to do, the generalist repositories and the code forges, the Open Science Framework and the move of its projects to read-only status, and the three OSF nodes that hold the record of this case.	45 minutes
Reproducibility repositories	Sections 6 to 8: what archives, forks and registrations each do differently, the preregistration templates written for reanalysing data that already exist, and the route for depositing your own work after the OSF transition.	45 minutes
Specification menu and the preregistration block	Read the axes, the three levels they sort into, and the claim-alignment convention, then pick the one specification you intend to run on the day. Fill in the preregistration block with those choices and the two sentences that defend them, dated in this session.	45 minutes
Estimand choices	Set the seven Level 1 choices, read the question that they define, and watch how far the measurement and estimation variants of that one question spread, before you choose yours.	20 minutes

By the end of the session you have a completed preregistration block for one specification, written and dated in the week before the workshop.