Category Archives: document management

Collaborating With GitHub – 225th AAS Meeting

Posted on January 13, 2015 by astrocompute

We are in the process of making the making the Montage mosaic engine accessible through GitHub, so it was good timing to attend the workshop on Collaborating With GitHub at the 225th American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Seattle, WA … Continue reading →

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Enhancements to the Astronomy Source Code Library (ASCL)

Posted on September 11, 2014 by astrocompute

The Astronomy Source Code Library (ASCL) is a rapidly growing, free online registry for astronomical source codes that have been used in research that have appeared in, or been submitted to, peer-reviewed publication. There are now over 900 codes indexed by … Continue reading →

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Why Do We Still Have Journals?

Posted on June 6, 2014 by astrocompute

This the title of an editorial essay by Gerald Davis (Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan), in Administrative Science Quarterly. His essay was concerned with journals in social science, but I think many of the issues he … Continue reading →

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Creating and evaluating data management plans

Posted on April 22, 2014 by astrocompute

At the request of the Editor of the Astronomy Source Code Library (ASCL),  I am reproducing this post by Jonathan Petters, Data Management Consultant, Johns Hopkins Data Management Services. In a recent discussion on preservation and sharing of research data, … Continue reading →

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So exactly why do you blog, Bruce?

Posted on April 9, 2014 by astrocompute

And does it provide any benefits? And is it a sink of time? I have been asked these questions on a number of occasions, even though the topic is a bit off the beaten track, I thought the questions merited … Continue reading →

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Astroinformatics 2013 – Day One Morning, December 9

Posted on December 8, 2013 by astrocompute

I am in Marsfield, near Sydney, Australia for the Astroinformatics 2013 meeting, hosted  by CSIRO. This annual meeting discusses advances in data processing, manipulation and management – crucial topics in modern astronomy given the acceleration in the growth of data … Continue reading →

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The Architecture of the RunMyCode platform

Posted on December 23, 2012 by astrocompute

Several weeks again, I published a post on RunMyCode, a platform for publishing code and data associated with papers. After verification by the project staff, the code is run on a  remote server but controlled from a web page.  Several … Continue reading →

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e-Science – towards the cloud: infrastructures, applications and research

Posted on December 17, 2012 by astrocompute

The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A has just published a special issue entitled: “e-Science – towards the cloud: infrastructures, applications and research.”  The issue contains 12 papers that are considered “best in show” at the U. K. e-Science … Continue reading →

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Technical Articles and Reproducibility – A Lesson From Biostatistics?

Posted on March 17, 2012 by astrocompute

Last week, I wrote an essay about about a paper by Darrel Ince, Leslie Hatton and John Graham-Cumming that argued for open computer programs as an essential component of verifying and reproducing computer intensive research results published in peer-reviewed journals. … Continue reading →

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Special e-Science Issue of Royal Society Journal: Free Until Dec 31, 2011

Posted on December 7, 2011 by astrocompute

This special e-Science  issue of  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A contains papers selected from the ninth U.K. e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2010), held in September 2010 in Cardiff, UK.  The Royal Society is offering free access to … Continue reading →

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