Open Science is a recurrent topic in scientific discussion, and there is a current effort to make research more accessible to a broader audience. A focus on delivering research findings that are reproducible, or even re-usable has been proposed as one way of achieving such accessibility goals. In this work, we present the LiveDocs initiative, an effort of the ``Collaborative Research Center 1456 - Mathematics of Experiment'' on tackling common issues of reproducibility and re-usability in scientific publications. The LiveDocs initiative is proposed as a concept alongside a collection of methods that enable scientists to provide research findings under an interactive development environment. This environment allows users from a broader audience to easily reproduce research findings by re-running scripts, for instance, those that generate figures, tables, and other elements from scientific publications. Moreover, LiveDocs also allow the audience to interact with code and data in such environments, thus allowing users to explore algorithms, datasets and software interfaces. This directly lowers the barriers to access and comprehend research methods and findings, which facilitates more scientific exchange and fosters knowledge advancement.
翻译:摘要:开放科学是科学讨论中的常见话题,当前正致力于让研究成果更易于被广泛受众获取。关注提高研究结果的可复现性甚至可重用性,已被提议为实现此类可及性目标的途径之一。本文介绍了LiveDocs倡议,这是“合作研究中心1456——实验数学”为解决科学出版物中常见的可复现性与可重用性问题而开展的工作。LiveDocs倡议既是一个概念框架,也是一套方法集合,使科学家能够在交互式开发环境中提供研究成果。该环境允许更广泛的受众通过重新运行脚本(例如生成科学出版物中图形、表格及其他元素的脚本)轻松复现研究结果。此外,LiveDocs还允许受众在此类环境中与代码及数据交互,从而探索算法、数据集与软件接口。这直接降低了理解研究方法和成果的门槛,促进了科学交流并推动了知识进步。