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%% Abstract
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%% CONTEXT
- Many reproducible workflow solutions have been proposed during recent decades.
- Most use the popular high-level technologies when they were created, providing an immediate solution that is not sustainable in the long-term.
- However, decades later, scientists lack the resources to re-write their projects, while still being accountable for their results.
- This creates generational gaps and due to the obsolete technologies, impedes reproducibility or building upon previous work.
+ Many reproducible workflow solutions have been proposed over the recent decades.
+ Most use the popular high-level technologies when they were created, providing an immediate solution which is unlikely to be sustainable in the long term.
+ Indeed, decades later, scientists lack the resources to re-write their projects while still being accountable for their results.
+ This creates generational gaps and, due to obsolete technologies, impedes reproducibility or building upon previous work.
%% AIM
We aim to introduce a set of criteria to address this problem and demonstrate their practicality.
%% METHOD
The criteria are: completeness (i.e., no dependency beyond a POSIX-compatible operating system, no administrator privileges, no network connection and primarily stored in plain-text); modular design; temporal provenance; scalability; and free-and-open-source software.
- %% RESULTS
Their usefulness is tested through an implementation: "Maneage" (managing+lineage).
- It is stored in machine-actionable and human-readable plain-text, enabling version-control, cheap archival, automatic parsing to extract data provenance, and peer-reviewable verification.
+ %% RESULTS
+ It is stored in machine-actionable and human-readable plain-text, enabling version-control, cheap archival, automatic parsing to extract data provenance, and peer-reviewable verification.
Furthermore, we show that these criteria are not limited to long-term reproducibility but also the immediate/fast regime.
It has been tested in several research publications including the present one, with snapshot \projectversion.
- %%CONCLUSION
+ %% CONCLUSION
We conclude that requiring longevity from solutions is realistic, and discuss the benefits of these criteria for scientific progress.
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