Re: CFP: First International Workshop on Reproducible Open Science (RepScience 2016)

Sarven,

I am a fan of your linked research work. But I think it's a bit unjust to characterize D-Lib Magazine as fitting in the category "via paper and desktop/print centric tools and formats." 

D-Lib is, and has since its start in 1995, been an HTML-only journal that has served the Digital Library community very well. Just recently, I published a paper [1] in D-Lib in which the editors agreed  to allow me to diverge from their template in order to demonstrate the Robust Links [2] approach to combat reference rot in scholarly communication. We had tried to achieve the same with a paper about reference rot in PLOS ONE [3] but our request was declined. 

While I agree that D-Lib does not represent an incarnation of your intended paradigm shift, I really don't think they are the enemy either. 

BTW: Maybe you could consider supporting Robust Links in your work. It's all about long-term access and integrity of the web-based scholarly record and hence should be of interest to you.

Cheers

Herbert

[1] Van de Sompel, H., and Nelson, M.L. (2015) Reminiscing About 15 Years of Interoperability Efforts. D-Lib Magazine, 21(11/12). DOI:10.1045/november2015-vandesompel, http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/november2015-vandesompel

[2] Robust Links spec. http://robustlinks.mementoweb.org/spec/ 


[3] Klein, M., Van de Sompel, H., Sanderson, R., Shankar, H., Balakireva, L., Zhou K., and Tobin, R. (2014) Scholarly Context Not Found: One in Five Articles Suffers from Reference Rot. PLoS ONE, 9(12): e115253. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0115253 ; http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115253 

> On May 10, 2016, at 06:04, Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> wrote:
> 
>> On 2016-05-10 06:51, Oscar Corcho wrote:
>> ###### Paper Submission ######
>> 
>> Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers.
>> Submitted manuscripts will have to be in the range of 4000-5000 words and
>> edited with OpenOffice Writer or Microsoft Word, following the "Matters of
>> style" section in the author guidelines for D-Lib Magazine.
>> 
>> Papers submitted to the workshop will undergo a single-blind peer-review
>> process by Program Committee members. Accepted papers will be published as
>> a special issue of the D-Lib Magazine journal, in the first Quarter of
>> 2017. To be published on the proceedings, accepted contributions should be
>> revised according to the reviews and consider the feedback from the
>> workshop. Moreover, at least one author is required to register and
>> present the paper at the workshop.
> 
> Why is this workshop encouraging "reproducible" "open science" via paper and desktop/print centric tools and formats?
> 
> Is the intention to "reproduce" still based on classical methods? For example, how do you propose that the accepted works of this workshop are reproduced?
> 
> What do you think about taking the initiative towards this "paradigm shift":
> 
> http://csarven.ca/linked-research-scholarly-communication
> 
> If that is of interest, what do you think it would require for this workshop to embrace that?
> 
> -Sarven
> http://csarven.ca/#i
>