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Make take home message more concrete and clear #92

Open liminsi321 opened 5 months ago

liminsi321 commented 5 months ago

Is that possible to be clearer for the thing the website advocate? Perhaps for the experts, the definitive statement can rule out many possibilities which is oversimplified. Technical experts understand the complexity of this statement. However, for people without sufficient background knowledge and tend to grasp the knowledge quickly, it is necessary to offer certain and clear information. Here are two examples to demonstrate this point. Example 1: In the second presentation, Research Software, on the page, Take home messages, which is located in the module, research software. there is one sentence, not all software used in research is research software. is that possible to provide more concrete description, instead of adjectives? The reasoning is that specific information is better than general information, when it comes to the take home message. Thus, the sentence can be revise as: “only the software used to address research questions is considered research software". If there is one straightforward example, this message can be removed from this page. Example 2: On the page of "take home messages" in module of Fair software, it could be more clear to illustrate the sentence "FAIR is not a checklist". One possible way could be illustrating which FAIR principle improve the quality of software. or "FAIR means integrating research integration and improve research reproductivity by adopting and developing good practices in software management."