Computational reproducibility in the geoscientific publication cycle

Computational reproducibility is possible when the data, procedures and software involved in a 
study is shared along with a scientific publication. When this can be done, it is still an open 
problem how this should be done: journals often mention the option, but give no hints to authors 
what they should provide and how they should wrap data, scripts and software. Mutual expectations 
from reviewers and readers on one side, and author on the other side, are largely missing. The 
project "Opening Reproducible Research" (http://o2r.info/), of which the second phase is now 
funded by the DFG, has the ambition to formalise these expectation, and develops a workflow for 
journals such that it becomes easy for authors and reviewers to verify completeness ("one-click 
reproduce"), and easy for readers to re-execute the computational aspects of a publication. In 
addition, potential extensions are explored that include searching reproducible publications for 
data and procedures, and interaction with the settings of particular parameters resulting in 
updated figures, so that readers can experience a richer view than the classical fixed non-
interactive pdf publication. In the second phase of this project, this infrastructure will be put 
into action by running special issues with journlas at existing publishers (Copernicus, 
Elsevier).