Hi all, I thought you might be interested in our announcement that eLife, in collaboration with Substance and Stencila, is supporting a project to create a full, open technology stack for authoring, compiling and publishing computationally reproducible manuscripts online.
Currently, researchers are able to document their computational experiments through file formats such as R Markdown and platforms such as Jupyter. However, there is no means for a researcher to present their research in this form through the traditional journal. Instead, current users of these technologies submit a “flattened” version of the documents to a journal, losing the value of embedded code and data references. Offering a means to share reproducible documents through an open stack of tools for authoring, compiling and publishing computationally reproducible manuscripts online would help counter this challenge and incentivise the sharing of reusable data and code underlying a research article. To help address this need, eLife is supporting the development of such a Reproducible Document Stack, in collaboration with Substance and Stencila. As part of this project, we aim to add several extensions to JATS XML that enable reproducible elements, such as statistical results, tables or graphs, to be embedded within journal articles. These extensions will allow such reproducible elements to be preserved right through the authoring, review and production pipeline. Ultimately, we hope the project will incentivise the sharing of demonstrably reusable data and code underlying a research article. Please see the full announcement for more information: https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/e6038800/elife-supports-development-of-open-technology-stack-for-publishing-reproducible-manuscripts-online You can also read more about the Reproducible Document Stack in our accompanying eLife Labs post: https://elifesciences.org/labs/7dbeb390/reproducible-document-stack-supporting-the-next-generation-research-article If you’d like any further information at all, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Best wishes, Emily -- *eLife's early-career researcher travel grants 2017 are now open for applications. Visit https://elifesciences.org/elife-news/inside-elife-2017-travel-grants-early-career-researchers-now-open-applications <https://elifesciences.org/elife-news/inside-elife-2017-travel-grants-early-career-researchers-now-open-applications>.* Emily Packer Press Officer +44 1223 855373 (office) http://elifesciences.org eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd is a limited liability non-profit non-stock corporation incorporated in the State of Delaware, USA, with company number 5030732, and is registered in the UK with company number FC030576 and branch number BR015634 at the address First Floor, 24 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1JP. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
