Re: [O] Open Peer-Review Reproducible Publication with Org and GRASS

[Christian Moe]

This is really interesting on several levels. Thanks for posting.

Yours,
Christian

Ken Mankoff writes:

> Hi Org and GRASS lists,
>
> I just wanted to let these two lists know that I've just posted a paper 
> written in Org and using GRASS (text-mode) and Python for the analysis. My 
> goal was to create not just an open access publication, but a fully 
> reproducible publication. This is an early announcement, and the paper may 
> not pass peer review.
>
> The Supplemental Material is the Org file with all the code to generate the 
> document, beginning with downloading the 3rd party data that is input to our 
> analysis, the GRASS code to perform the analysis, and the Python code to 
> regenerate the figures.
>
> I don't think I did a great job on the reproducible part because I have a 
> highly customized .emacs, etc. All the information necessary to replicate the 
> work should be in the Supplemental Material, but it might not be easy to do 
> so. Anyway, I think it is a step in the right direction.
>
> To make it easier to reproduce... including my emacs.org seems overkill. 
> Including a Virtual Machine that contains everything, including my 
> ~/.emacs.d/ and all the software and data seems like the right thing to do, 
> but journals don't want to host a 20 GB VM with the publication.
>
> Thanks to people on these two lists who have developed the software and 
> helped me use it.
>
>    -k.
>    
> http://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/tc-2016-113/