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danielskatz / software-vs-data

understanding and documenting the differences between software and data in the context of citation
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List of Commonalities #46

Closed fedorov closed 7 years ago

fedorov commented 7 years ago

I came across this effort while reading https://peerj.com/articles/cs-86/, and my first thought after going over the list - where to start? So many differences, that I am asking myself how could it be possible for someone to be in any doubt about the differences between software and data?

For someone coming this this perspective, and to make the document more balanced and motivated, did you consider adding "List of Commonalities"?

danielskatz commented 7 years ago

Hi - this really started when a draft of that paper discussed differences between software and data from the point-of-view of citation, and we want to explain when the data citation principles were not sufficient and correct for software citation. Some reviewers felt we were injecting out opinions, rather than facts, so we decided to create this repo and let people discuss this, so it was more of a consensus and not just out opinions. We then could cite this repo in the paper, and satisfy the reviewers, which we did.

Having said that, if you want to propose some changes, that would be fine.

fedorov commented 7 years ago

Oh, I see. If this repo is not being actively developed and has already served its purpose, then I agree there is not much value in updating it. Thanks for the clarification!