Workshop Exercises

In set of exercises, we will be:

If you haven’t already, download the workshop files and save them in a folder on your desktop. Make sure to extract the files from the zip file.

Once you’ve signed into your account, choose Search from the menu at the top of the page and search for “CMU Getting Started with OSF Demo”.
Click on the project from the search results. Find the ‘fork’ button in the upper righthand corner and choose ‘Duplicate template’ from the drop-down menu.
Click ‘Create’ when prompted. You should now have a clean template of the project in your own account without any files or add-ons.
If you’d like, change the name of the project by clicking on the project name.

Add your neighbor as a contributor by clicking on Contributors from the menu at the top of the project page and then the green “+ Add” button.
Search for them by name or user profile information.
Click the green plus sign next to their name and choose their permissions from the drop-down menu. Click Next.
Add them as contributors to all components in the project by clicking on Select All in the window that appears. Click Add.

Return to the project’s home page by clicking on the project name in the upper left.
In the components section, click ‘Add Component’.
Call this component “Survey Instruments” and check the box next to “Add contributors…”. Choose the ‘Methods and Measures’ category from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the window (which appears when you click on More).
Click Create and go to the new component. Is the component private or public by default?

Click on OSF Storage in the files section of the Survey Instrument component. Click on ’+ Create Folder’ to add a new folder.
Name this folder ‘Surveys’, then click the green plus + to add the new file.
Click on the folder and add the file ‘Survey-Instrument_RDM-Practices-in-MRI_VanGulick_Borghi.pdf’ from the workshop files that you downloaded before today’s session. You can either drag and drop the file to the Survey folder or click ‘Upload’ and browse to the file.
Now try adding the files ‘Borghi_VanGulick_2018_data.csv’ and ‘Borghi_VanGulick_2018_datadictionary.csv’ to the Data component.

Go to the Data component.
Click on the “Make Public” button in the upper righthand corner and confirm.
Navigate back to the project home page. Notice that there is no longer a lock symbol next to the Data component.

Open the file ‘Borghi_VanGulick_2018_data.csv’ from your Workshop Files folder on your computer.
Delete the first two columns and save without changing the file name.
Replace the file in your data component with the new version by dragging and dropping or uploading to the Data component OSF storage, where the previous version is located.
Click on the file to view in the project window. Note this is now version 2.
Click on the clock with an arrow on the righthand side under the ‘i’. Download version 1 to your computer.

Click the arrow on the right side in the ‘Wiki’ box located on your project homepage or click the Wiki button in the navigation bar.
To add a new page to the Wiki click the +New button on the left sidebar.
An ‘Add new wiki page’ will pop up. Enter the the title, then click Add. The page will be added to your Wiki.
To delete a page, click on the page that you want to delete.
Click the Delete button above the left sidebar.

OSF allows you to connect with multiple add-on tools for storage and citation management such as GitHub, Google Drive and Mendeley.
Go to https://osf.io/rfw3q/addons/. Choose an add-on from the list that you typically use and follow OSF’s step-by-step instructions to connect it to the project.
We’ll be on hand to troubleshoot as you work through the steps.