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I seem to remember reading, maybe about a year ago, of some movement trying to promote the practice of supplementing scientific papers with reproducible experim

by dtf 17y ago

I seem to remember reading, maybe about a year ago, of some movement trying to promote the practice of supplementing scientific papers with reproducible experiments and derivations - ie source code and data. Perhaps it was just in the field of computer science? To a non-academic like me it sounded like a completely obvious thing to do, but yet you hardly ever seem to see it. Surely given the tools the internet offers these days (look at the wonders of github it its ilk for sharing and modifying code), we should be moving academic publishing forward to take advantage of such tools?

marciovm123 17y ago
jove.com is a good example of using the web to better share science, so is openwetware.org. the people running labs these days are usually 35+; they grew up before google. In a sense, they see the web as a way to do what they've always done faster, as opposed to doing new things. As younger people replace them this will change.
bbgm 17y ago
Number of efforts across the board, including chemistry and biology. The extreme side of the "open science" world is Open Notebook Science http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Notebook_Science http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Notebook_Science In general you are required to put enough into the methods section of a paper to be able to reproduce the results, but as the computational side gets more and more complex and supplementary data sets get bigger and more complicated, the need to make the raw data and (if possible) code available for people to reproduce the results and/or test the assumptions becomes almost a necessity. A number of folks are thinking along the publishing side as well. Theres PLoS One (http://plosone.org http://plosone.org) and Cell has been doing some very interesting prototyping on the "paper of the future". People have already mentioned JoVE and OpenWetWare. It will happen, but it's going to take a few years. Too many years of established practice.

by dtf 17y ago

marciovm123 17y ago

jove.com is a good example of using the web to better share science, so is openwetware.org. the people running labs these days are usually 35+; they grew up before google. In a sense, they see the web as a way to do what they've always done faster, as opposed to doing new things. As younger people replace them this will change.

bbgm 17y ago

Number of efforts across the board, including chemistry and biology. The extreme side of the "open science" world is Open Notebook Science http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Notebook_Science http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Notebook_Science In general you are required to put enough into the methods section of a paper to be able to reproduce the results, but as the computational side gets more and more complex and supplementary data sets get bigger and more complicated, the need to make the raw data and (if possible) code available for people to reproduce the results and/or test the assumptions becomes almost a necessity. A number of folks are thinking along the publishing side as well. Theres PLoS One (http://plosone.org http://plosone.org) and Cell has been doing some very interesting prototyping on the "paper of the future". People have already mentioned JoVE and OpenWetWare. It will happen, but it's going to take a few years. Too many years of established practice.