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- Title
Data Without Software Are Just Numbers.
- Authors
Davenport, James Harold; Grant, James; Jones, Catherine Mary
- Abstract
Great strides have been made to encourage researchers to archive data created by research and provide the necessary systems to support their storage. Additionally it is recognised that data are meaningless unless their provenance is preserved, through appropriate meta-data. Alongside this is a pressing need to ensure the quality and archiving of the software that generates data, through simulation, control of experiment or data-collection and that which analyses, modifies and draws value from raw data. In order to meet the aims of reproducibility we argue that data management alone is insufficient: it must be accompanied by good software practices, the training to facilitate it and the support of stakeholders, including appropriate recognition for software as a research output.
- Subjects
DATA libraries; METADATA; DATA quality; DATA management; COMPUTER software management
- Publication
Data Science Journal, 2020, Vol 19, p1
- ISSN
1683-1470
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5334/dsj-2020-003