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.

The proposed session will bring together representatives from the major “notebook” efforts, efforts such as Jupyter, RStudio, and commercial efforts such as MATLAB live scripts. Presenters will discuss the latest developments in each of their technologies, emphasizing elements that support the notions of ease of use, long-term executability, interoperability, and software publication. Lessons learned from building a geoscience-focused notebook directory, notebook template, and long-term preservation in AGU’s ESSOaR will be discussed as well as how this relates to international efforts to elevate notebooks and make them FAIR.

Presenters:

Representative from Jupyter - discussing with Fernando Perez
Simon Goring, University of Wisconsin / Leah Wasser, Earth Lab at CU Boulder / Laura DeCicco, USGS
Loren Shure, MathWorks
Hugh Shanahan, University of London / RDA
Chris Erdmann, American Geophysical Union
Kenton McHenry or Dan Katz (moderator), University of Illinois