On Fri, 17 Nov 2017, Steffen Möller wrote: > Dear all,
> this paper has now surfaced > Möller, Steffen; Prescott, Stuart W.; Wirzenius, Lars; Reinholdtsen, > Petter; Chapman, Brad; Prins, Pjotr; Soiland-Reyes, Stian; Klötzl, > Fabian; Bagnacani, Andrea; Kalaš, Matúš; Tille, Andreas; Crusoe, Michael > R. (2017): Robust cross-platform workflows: how technical and scientific > communities collaborate to develop, test and share best practices for > data analysis. Data Science and Engineering. > https://doi.org/10.1007/s41019-017-0050-4 Wow -- it is a really nice one, very informative and integrative. Congrats! Thanks for sharing the link as well! To give a little bit of food for thought for the next sprints etc. In the paper you already make a good accent on standards, as the driving force for more efficient and reliable work and resultant environments. But as data are actually the primary object of operation on, and the artifact produced are typically data files, it might be nice to also give additional special attention to data (and meta-data) standardization. Even though Debian etc projects are working on software/tools integration, and are agnostic of the data formats used by those, we are in a good position to promote through demonstration the benefits of data standardization. As for the background -- in neuroimaging we are pushing toward data files standardization at the level of the entire experiments now (not just per file): http://bids.neuroimaging.io . Adherence to the standard allows for more efficient collaboration, meta-data manipulation (integration, querying etc), cross-tools integration etc. CWL, as far as I see it (I have no working experience with it), seems to provide some level of data description, if not standardizing types/layout of input, just again emphasizing on the benefit from such standardizations. Once again, congrats! Cheers, -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
