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authorMohammad Akhlaghi <mohammad@akhlaghi.org>2022-11-12 19:15:27 +0100
committerMohammad Akhlaghi <mohammad@akhlaghi.org>2022-11-12 19:15:27 +0100
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index.html: more clear explanation of Maneage nature
Until now, the exact nature of Maneage wasn't properly explained in the top page. Richard Stallman raised some good points to help clarify this: in particular that it is a "program" (allowing download and offline running, not "service"). With this commit, based his suggestions, the first two paragraphs have been edited to further clarify this point.
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<h2>Managing Data Lineage</h2>
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- <p class="clear">Maneage is a customizable workflow (implemented in GNU Make), providing low-level control over a project's data lineage.
+ <p class="clear">Maneage is a customizable workflow controller program (implemented in GNU Make), providing low-level control over a project's data lineage and the version controlled history of the data lineage (implemented in Git).
Data lineage or data provenance refer to keeping track of how data evolves within a project.
For example the process of converting raw data from external data bases to a final plot in the published paper/report (this usually involves many different analysis steps and depends on many software packages).
- Therefore Maneage is used for producing a <a href="http://akhlaghi.org/reproducible-science.html">reproducible result</a> (which is a critical issue in modern scientific data analysis).
- The name "Maneage" is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau">portmanteau</a>; created by merging the first three characters of "manage" with the last four characters of "lineage".</p>
+ Therefore Maneage is used for <a href="http://akhlaghi.org/reproducible-science.html">reproducible research</a> (which is a critical issue for the integrity of modern scientific results).
+ The name "Maneage" is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau">portmanteau</a>; created by merging the first three characters of "<i>man</i>age" with the last four characters of "lin<i>eage</i>".</p>
<p>Maneage is <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html">free software</a> and released under <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html">GNU GPL v3+</a>.
- To learn more about its founding criteria and a basic introduction, see Akhlaghi et al. (2021), <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2021.3072860">published in CiSE</a> (Gold Open Access), also available in <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03018">arXiv:2006.03018</a> (with extended appendix in one PDF).
+ An important principle of Maneage is that it is a "program" (you download a copy of it and install it on your own machine and use your own copy).
+ To learn more about its founding criteria and a basic introduction, see Akhlaghi et al. (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2021.3072860">CiSE 2021, vol 23, issue 3, pp 82-91</a>), also available as <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03018">arXiv:2006.03018</a> (with extended appendix in one PDF: the recommended format).
Maneage is a recipient of the <a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/node/64603">RDA Europe Adoption grant</a> and was featured in a Nature Astronomy "<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01402-3">News and Views</a>" article (Kuttel 2021, <a href="https://rdcu.be/cmYVx">free-to-read link</a>).
You can also watch the short "Video presentation of Maneage" below, or see this published <a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/sites/default/files/RDA%20adoption%20story_IAC_final.pdf">RDA Adoption story</a> (a short PDF).
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