TU/e wins 2nd prize at Elsevier's Executable Paper Grand Challenge
Pieter van Gorp from TU/e wins 2nd prize at Elsevier's Executable Paper Grand Challenge
Elsevier conducted the Executable Paper Grand Challenge on June 2 in Singapore, a contest aimed at improving the way scientific information is communicated and used. Second place was awarded to Eindhoven's Pieter van Gorp and Steffen Mazanek for SHARE: a webportal for creating and sharing executable research papers.
The SHARE platform is a free web portal to a catalog of virtual machines. By deploying a copy of the required operating system in SHARE as well as relevant software and data, authors can make a conventional paper fully reproducible and interactive. Besides reproducing the literate results of a research paper, readers can also explore the results of the paper by entering different input parameters than the ones reported in the original text. In short SHARE allows to repeat and manipulate a particular experiment.
The SHARE platform has the benefit of making research results reproducible. By doing so SHARE also truly enhances articles with all artifacts of the article, programs as well as data, which can be made immutable afterwards and published that way.
SHARE and its relationship with open access of research data is explained by Pieter van Gorp in this video.
