Erin Buchanan
I am currently a Professor of Cognitive Analytics at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology - a STEM school in Pennsylvania. I teach computational linguistics courses in our Analytics and Data Science programs, such as Natural Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis, and Human Language. I also teach a bunch of statistics courses and you can learn more about my stats work on my website aggieerin.com
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
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Registered Reports were created to improve openness and replicability in research. While they have gained in popularity over the past decade, they remain difficult to systematically identify and discover, hindering meta-science efforts to evaluate them at scale. To address this gap, we are developing a comprehensive living database of published Registered Reports. Since our 2025 hackathon, initial work focused on building a Zotero database, developing machine learning mechanisms for identifying and collecting Registered Reports, and defining processing terms/information to include in the database. Our hackathon will build directly on this foundation. Participants will collaborate to improve data collection pipelines, improve tagging and metadata standards, expand database coverage across journals and disciplines, and address sustainability, versioning, and long-term maintenance. The goal is to develop a robust, scalable, community-driven resource that enables reliable discovery and reuse of Registered Reports for researchers, meta-researchers, and the broader scientific community.
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