Opening the Publication Process with Executable Research Compendia

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Abstract

A strong movement towards openness has seized science. Open data and methods, open source software, open access, open reviews, and open research platforms provide the legal and technical solutions to new forms of research and publishing. However, publishing reproducible research is still not common practice. Reasons for that include a lack of incentives and a missing standardized infrastructure for providing research material such as data sets and source code together with a scientific paper. Therefore we first study fundamentals and existing approaches. On that basis, our key contributions are the identification of core requirements of authors, readers, publishers, curators, and preservationists and the subsequent description of an executable research compendium (ERC) as a main component of a publication process providing a new way to publish and access computational research. ERC provide a new standardisable packaging mechanism which combines data, software, text, and a user interface description. We discuss the potential of ERCs and their challenges in the context of user requirements and the established publication processes. We conclude that ERCs provide an unprecedented potential to find, explore, re-use, and archive computer-based research.

Speakers from the University of Münster

Konkol, Markus	Professur für Geoinformatik (Prof. Kray)
Kray, Christian	Professur für Geoinformatik (Prof. Kray)
Lorenz, Jörg	ULB Dezernat 2 Digitale Dienste
Nüst, Daniel	Professur für Geoinformatik (Prof. Pebesma)
Pebesma, Edzer	Professur für Geoinformatik (Prof. Pebesma)
Przibytzin, Holger	ULB Dez 2 Abt. 2.2 Wissenschaftliche Informationssysteme
Schutzeichel, Marc	ULB Dez 2 Abt. 2.2 Wissenschaftliche Informationssysteme