Those of you who frequent Irreal know that I’m a big believer in reproducible research and that I’m particularly fascinated with how Org mode can be leveraged to produce it. In the past, I’ve pointed out some small examples of researchers doing this. The other day, I came across this tweet
An Effective #Git And #OrgMode Based Workflow For Reproducible Research https://t.co/anCLTl5wl6
— Olivier Berger (@olberger) June 6, 2016
that pointed me to a complete example.
Luka Stanisic, Arnaud Legrand and Vincent Danjean from the University of Grenoble have an excellent paper on leveraging git and Org mode for reproducible research in the ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review1. The paper recounts in significant detail the git/Org-based workflow that the three authors used to do the research for and publish a paper in the Proceedings of the 20th Euro-Par Conference.
One of the things that makes their account especially useful is that they provide access to the full git repository for their research and writing. You can see every step they took and how they took pains to record the experimental environment for later researchers.
If you have any interest at all in reproducible research or in using Org mode to assist in research and writing papers, you should definitely take a look at their paper. It’s a complete, worked out example of reproducible research.
Footnotes:
If you don’t have access to the ACM Digital Library, there’s a preprint of the paper here.