Questions – OpenPub https://openpub.nceas.ucsb.edu A collection of thoughts and links from the NCEAS Future of Publishing Working Group Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:07:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 An idea about a rough do-able now experiment https://openpub.nceas.ucsb.edu/2012/06/25/an-idea-about-a-rough-do-able-now-experiment/ https://openpub.nceas.ucsb.edu/2012/06/25/an-idea-about-a-rough-do-able-now-experiment/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:09:35 +0000 http://openpub.nceas.ucsb.edu/?p=266 Continue reading ]]> Area51.stackechange is a site for people to propose nascent mathoverflow-like sites. As a first pass experiment on open review and a reputation economy (while we develop or find a way to develop a more sophisticated model) could we get the community to support an Ecology Preprint stackechange? We could have NCEAS host preprint pdfs from validated authors (i.e., have a ecopreprint.stackechange user account) and an individual ‘question’ would concern people’s comments on a paper.

We’d ask the community to volunteer to post preprints there fore at least, say, 2 months for submission, and given them the option of including their ‘review’ trail, etc. when they submit their paper to a journal.

Users would shape things like tags, etc. as the do on any stackoverflow site.

Granted, ‘review’ would be public, with usernames revealed. But, it’s an experiment.

After running this for ~6 months, we survey participants about their experience.

Thoughts?

Comment from Dave: You’d need some journals and high profile people to buy-in before doing this.

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Question on computational tools in Ecology and related sciences https://openpub.nceas.ucsb.edu/2012/06/25/question-on-computational-tools-in-ecology-and-related-sciences/ https://openpub.nceas.ucsb.edu/2012/06/25/question-on-computational-tools-in-ecology-and-related-sciences/#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:41:28 +0000 http://openpub.nceas.ucsb.edu/?p=152 Continue reading ]]> What are the main tools and computational frameworks used in the Ecological sciences. I have an interest in building “executable papers” and have been looking at iPython Notebook as a toolset that might enable us to do this quickly. Is Python widely used? Are workflow tools useful in this space?

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