Alexander Dunkel<p>At the <a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/IOER_FDZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IOER_FDZ</span></a>, we have been thinking about ways to improve the production of scientific knowledge and contribute solutions to the <a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/reproducibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reproducibility</span></a> crisis.</p><p>One initiative that we are now sharing with the wider scientific community is <a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/Carto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Carto</span></a>-Lab Docker, a computational environment for the <a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> sciences built on a versioned, reproducible Docker container stack that enables FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable). <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@mcnesium" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mcnesium</span></a></span> and I started developing it seven years ago. Having moved to version v.1.0.0, the software now left its beta phase and became an official research infrastructure component of the IOER-FDZ. (🚀@ Marc!) </p><p>It includes pre-configured, environments for <a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/open" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>open</span></a>-source <a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cartography</span></a> in <a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> and <a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/R" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>R</span></a>, and has been designed to support transparent geospatial data analysis and sound publication practices in science.</p><p>Firstly, Carto-Lab Docker bundles existing open-source software together with <a href="https://himself.alexanderdunkel.com/tags/Jupyterlab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jupyterlab</span></a> for easy deployment and use, reducing the barriers to good scientific practice and efficiently working in teams. It also encompasses critical training materials, documentation, and best-practice code to facilitate collaborative learning and incremental progress in research.</p><p>You can find the documentation at [1]. Users may also be interested in our NFDI4Biodiversity training materials [2], which were authored using Carto-Lab Docker and explain many of the underlying concepts. Developers and administrators can find our public container images in the Quay.io container registry [3]. Contributions and input are warmly welcomed on Github [4].</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wisskomm.social/@ioer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ioer</span></a></span> </p><p>[1]: <a href="https://cartolab.fdz.ioer.info/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">cartolab.fdz.ioer.info/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>[2]: <a href="https://training.fdz.ioer.info/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">training.fdz.ioer.info/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>[3]: <a href="https://quay.io/repository/ioer-fdz/carto-lab-docker?tab=info" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">quay.io/repository/ioer-fdz/ca</span><span class="invisible">rto-lab-docker?tab=info</span></a><br>[4]: <a href="https://github.com/ioer-dresden/carto-lab-docker" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/ioer-dresden/carto-</span><span class="invisible">lab-docker</span></a></p>