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Practical Reproducibility in Geography and Geosciences
Annals of the American Association of Geographers ( IF 3.2 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-13
Daniel Nüst, Edzer Pebesma

Reproducible research is often perceived as a technological challenge, but it is rooted in the challenge to improve scholarly communication in an age of digitization. When computers become involved and researchers want to allow other scientists to inspect, understand, evaluate, and build on their work, they need to create a research compendium that includes the code, data, computing environment, and script-based workflows used. Here, we present the state of the art for approaches to reach this degree of computational reproducibility, addressing literate programming and containerization while paying attention to working with geospatial data (digital maps, geographic information systems). We argue that all researchers working with computers should understand these technologies to control their computing environment, and we present the benefits of reproducible workflows in practice. Example research compendia illustrate the presented concepts and are the basis for challenges specific to geography and geosciences. Based on existing surveys and best practices from different scientific domains, we conclude that researchers today can overcome many barriers and achieve a very high degree of reproducibility. If the geography and geosciences communities adopt reproducibility and the underlying technologies in practice and in policies, they can transform the way researchers conduct and communicate their work toward increased transparency, understandability, openness, trust, productivity, and innovation.



中文翻译:

地理和地球科学中的实际可重复性

可重现的研究通常被认为是一项技术挑战,但其根源在于在数字化时代改善学术交流的挑战。当计算机介入并且研究人员希望允许其他科学家检查,理解,评估和建立他们的工作时,他们需要创建一个研究纲要,其中包括所使用的代码,数据,计算环境和基于脚本的工作流程。在这里,我们介绍了达到这种计算可重复性程度的方法的最新技术,解决了识字程序设计和容器化问题,同时注重使用地理空间数据(数字地图,地理信息系统)。我们认为所有使用计算机的研究人员都应了解这些技术来控制其计算环境,并且我们在实践中展示了可重复工作流的好处。示例研究纲要说明了所提出的概念,并且是地理和地球科学特有挑战的基础。根据来自不同科学领域的现有调查和最佳实践,我们得出结论,当今的研究人员可以克服许多障碍,并具有很高的可重复性。如果地理和地球科学界在实践和政策中采用可复制性和底层技术,则他们可以改变研究人员的行为方式和交流方式,以提高透明度,可理解性,开放性,信任度,生产率和创新能力。根据来自不同科学领域的现有调查和最佳实践,我们得出结论,当今的研究人员可以克服许多障碍,并具有很高的可重复性。如果地理和地球科学界在实践和政策中采用可复制性和基础技术,则他们可以改变研究人员的工作方式和交流方式,以提高透明度,可理解性,开放性,信任度,生产率和创新能力。根据不同科学领域的现有调查和最佳实践,我们得出结论,当今的研究人员可以克服许多障碍,并具有很高的可重复性。如果地理和地球科学界在实践和政策中采用可复制性和基础技术,则他们可以改变研究人员的工作方式和交流方式,以提高透明度,可理解性,开放性,信任度,生产率和创新能力。

更新日期:2020-10-13
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