Advancing Notebooks as Scholarly Objects : Notebooks at AGU

Presented at U33A - Advancing Notebooks as Scholarly Objects, AGU Fall Meeting 2021, Wednesday, 15 December 2021, 12:45 - 14:15, Convention Center - Hall D-2, First Floor

As science becomes more and more dependent on data and software, capturing these elements of the modern scientific procedure has become critical in achieving reproducibility. Computational notebooks have emerged as an increasingly valued way of capturing not only the traditional elements of a scientific paper but also the software steps in an executable and reproducible manner. As part of the 2020 EarthCube Annual Meeting, the EarthCube office, Leadership Council, and Technical Architecture Committee experimented by issuing a call focused on notebook submissions as peer reviewed publications. The call was well received by the community: 21 Jupyter notebooks were submitted, and 12 of these were accepted for publication. As part of the 2021 call for notebooks, the idea of expanding this call to more types of “notebooks” is being discussed, with the goal of eliciting submissions from a wider group of researchers, who may be more comfortable with other notebook technologies.

This work is supported by Accelerating Open and FAIR Data Practices Across the Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences: A Pilot with the NSF to Support Public Access to Research Data project funded by the National Science Foundation, Grant 2025364.