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Comment 237
Addressed (Unresolved)
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 NISO RP-15-201x, Recommended Practices for Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials, Part B:... (Revision 1) |
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Comment Submitted by Jose Manuel Gomez Perez 2012-09-14 09:26:31 |
The current draft of the recommendation is a good step forward towards addressing the problem of supplemental materials for journal articles. However, its coverage seems to be partial. Little or no emphasis is made on the aspects related with the experimental methods enclosed in journal communications and how such methods are implemented and executed. This is especially the case of computationally intensive disciplines, where the experiments upon which scientific progress is built are run in silico, ususally in the form of scientific workflows. Scientific communications would need to provide proof of their claims and, in this sense, supplemental materials should provide the means to reproduce experimental results. This is also the approach from the nanopublications community effort. However, the recommendation seems to focus on more basic aspects related to digital libraries and preservation, like identification e.g. by means of DOIs. Provenance is mentioned as a way to support credit and attribution, bu it would also be of great importance to leverage provenance information in support of the reproducibility of scientific results, for example. |
| Submitter Proposed Solution |
This may be a matter of scoping. If the issues commented above are not in the spirit of this recommendation, it should be said upfron in the beginning of the document. |
| Developer Response |
thank you for your input on the draft for Part B of NISO RP-15-2013, Recommended Practices for Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials. Your comment was carefully considered by the Technical Working Group in their review and subsequent revision of the Recommended Practice before publication, which occurred late last week after approvals from both NISO and NFAIS leadership. Responses to comments can be found at http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/document.php?document_id=9757 The published Recommended Practice can be found at http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/rp-15-2013 thank you for your support of NISO and NFAIS. Nettie Lagace, NISO Associate Director for Programs |