Improving The Turing Way

Collaborations Workshop 2019 (CW19) #CollabW19 2019-04-01 to 2019-04-03 Improving The Turing Way - HP11-CW2CC Hackday Idea Proposer Kirstie Whitaker - kwhitaker@turing.ac.uk This document should be used to capture the information for a Hack Day Idea. Context / Research Domain Collaboratively building a resource to make reproducible research “too easy not to do” Problem Reproducible research is necessary to ensure that scientific work can be trusted. Funders and publishers are beginning to require that publications include access to the underlying data and the analysis code....

2 min · 228 words · Kirstie Whitaker

Interoperability & Continuous Integration

Collaborations Workshop 2019 (CW19) #CollabW19 2019-04-01 to 2019-04-03 Interoperability & Continuous Integration - DSR2-CW2CC Reporter Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran - University of Oxford, http://agbeltran.github.io/,twitter: @alegonbel alejandra.gonzalez.beltran@gmail.com Participants Kirstie Whitaker, Alan Turing Institute, https://whitakerlab.github.io, twitter: @kirstie_j, kwhitaker@turing.ac.uk Mosè Giordano, UCL, https://giordano.github.io, Twitter: @MoseGiordano Richard Gilham (Met Office) richard.gilham@metoffice.gov.uk Aleksandra Nenadic, The Software Sustainability Institute, a.nenadic@manchester.ac.uk Alexander Konovalov, University of St Andrews, alexander.konovalov@st-andrews.ac.uk Adrian Castravete, figshare, adrian@figshare.com Notes from the discussion Please use the area below to capture notes from the discussion session....

9 min · 1908 words · Kirstie Whitaker, Mosè Giordano, Richard Gilham, Aleksandra Nenadic, Alexander Konovalov, Adrian Castravete

Keeping up with the Joneses: Providing evidence for software and data citations in published papers

Collaborations Workshop 2018 - 2018-03-26 Group G - CI3-CW18 Reporter Kirstie Whitaker - kwhitaker.turing@gmail.com Participants Kirstie Whitaker, Ilektra Christidi, Andrew Walker, Shoaib Sufi Title: Keeping up with the Joneses: Providing evidence for software and data citations in published papers Context / Research Domain It’s not clear which journals and disciplines have citations to software and data and how their numbers are changing over time. In addition, it’s not clear whether these resources are still available, nor whether they meet community standards....

2 min · 386 words · Kirstie Whitaker, Ilektra Christidi, Andrew Walker, Shoaib Sufi
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Keeping up with the Joneses: Providing evidence for software and data citations in published papers

Collaborations Workshop 2018 - 2018-03-26 Keeping up with the Joneses: Providing evidence for software and data citations in published papers - HP8-CW18 Hackday Idea Proposer Kirstie Whitaker - kwhitaker@turing.ac.uk Context / Research Domain It’s not clear which journals and disciplines have citations to software and data and how their numbers are changing over time. In addition, it’s not clear whether these resources are still available, nor whether they meet community standards....

2 min · 376 words · Kirstie Whitaker
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The Docutor button

Collaborations Workshop 2019 (CW19) #CollabW19 2019-04-01 to 2019-04-03 The Docutor button - CI18-CW2CC Reporter Dan Hobley - dan.hobley@gmail.com Participants Cerys Lewis, Connah Kendrick, Kirstie Whitaker, Adrian Castravete Context / Research Domain Documentation enhancement Problem In active projects, it’s very easy for documentation to get out of alignment with or superseded by subsequent code changes. Maintainers of open source projects are hugely overworked and underpaid, so even with the best will in the world, it’s very difficult for the experts who built the code and who wrote the original documentation to review it and catch any of the inconsistencies that appear over time....

2 min · 420 words · Cerys Lewis, Connah Kendrick, Kirstie Whitaker, Adrian Castravete