Rob L Davidson
Rob L Davidson
Is it better to have multiple files within the repository (arguably easier for human understanding) or to have one catch-all file with all metadata in an arguably more machine readable...
Agree regarding ORCID. Uptake is growing among researchers but it may not be so popular across the board - we need to see. What is a minimal information standard for...
Sounds like a good idea. Would also be good to create a universal format for anyone working in a non-standard language. That could simply be the common subset of essential...
Ha. Point well made.
Hi, CrossRef and DataCite both agree on the DOI standard and work closely together. The value of a DOI is that the company that 'mints' the DOI has had to...
This is an excellent discussion. Inspired by @owlice's recent post, I have these thoughts on when code is a research object: I tend to think of research objects as a...
Regarding author retention of their code objects: At [GigaScience](http://gigasciencejournal.com), we encourage authors to have a project page for them to better control the definitive version of their code - but...
@hugbit That is how Zenodo appears to work currently. Seems like a decent system for integration with GitHub.
It may help to consider what sort of endpoint could be achieved by truly re-usable code. To my mind, a good outcome would be to have a standardised system that...
Regarding @gvwilson and @karthik's comments about incentivising scientific programmers to add in these extra levels of work - I'd like to state that while many programmers would like to make...