Notes from Plenary 5 - Joint Session with Reproducibility IG

Notes from the Joint Session of the Research Data Provenance and Reproducibility Interest Groups at Plenary 5 in San Diego, March 9, 2015

• We had a brief review of the objectives and work to date from the chairs of each of the interest groups (This information can be found on the RDA wiki pages for each group.)
• Andrew Treloar presented an overview of provenance related activity in Australia including:
  • https://researchdata.ands.org.au/ and its provenance working group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/australian-research-data-provenance
  • use cases being captured by CSIRO http://promsns.org/uc/usecases/
• Dave Dubin discussed ResearchCompendia as a tool for data sharing and enabling reproducibility (slides attached)
  • we walked through an example use case from this site on reproducible research on bicycle helmets, discussing the details of the approach taken to using a natural language approach to documenting the provenance
  • then looked at enriching this data with metadata from standard ontologies (Dublin Core, Bibo, foaf, SAM)
    • an example of an approach to adding provenance metadata after the fact with an aim of facilitating reproduction of the original research
  • Led to a discussion of whether epidemiology is the right domain to start looking at provenance use cases, or if it would be better to start with more controversial areas
• Ideas for future work
  • continued work on augmenting research compendia
  • work with the  BOF on citation principles for reproducible research  to propose some general principles and a straw man model

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