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@@ -53,20 +53,20 @@ %% Abstract {\noindent\mpregular %% 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. \horizontalline |