This is how a scientific publication can be presented in the future: on the left is the original publication, on the right the readers can work with the research data themselves.
Starting in April of this year, the German Research Foundation (DFG) is supporting a joint project of the Institute for Geoinformatics at the University of Münster and the local University Library. The aim of the project "Opening Reproducible Research" (o2r) is to make research results more reproducible and scientific work more transparent. This is achieved by combining all necessary elements of an article (text, data, analysis) into a single consistent package and by presenting scientific studies and their data interactively. The DFG funding amounts to 500000 Euro and the project will run for two and a half years. Even in the online editions of scientific journals, scientific publications today are still presented in a similar way as in traditional print editions. "With our project we are aiming to bring scientific publications into the 21st century," says Markus Konkol from the Institute for Geoinformatics. He and his colleagues are developing the o2r platform for this purpose.
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