References

[emhart]

Here are some references for us.

Original context of the e-mail.

Hi,

In case you missed it, Daisie Huang wrote a very insightful article
about the differences between scientific coding and software engineering
for the Software Sustainability Institute's blog at
http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2015-02-06-scientific-coding-and-software-engineering-whats-difference.
I think short pieces like this that we can link to when we're talking to
colleagues (and writing proposals) are really useful, so I would be
grateful if a few of our newer instructors would like to volunteer to
summarize three recent discussions we've been having about:

• where scientists should store their data:
  Where should scientists store their data? swcarpentry/DEPRECATED-site#797

Guide to submitting a 10 simple rules

http://journals.plos.org/ploscollections/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003858

[karawoo]

Related but distinct: Ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data

[PBarmby]

Also in the astronomy theme, Reimplementing the Hierarchical Data System using HDF5 has some interesting comments on using different formats for processing, strage, and transport. I can translate jargon if necessary..

[arokem]

Hi everyone! This paper from our group may be of interest here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.06900

[jhollist]

New from PLOS one that might have some relevance (I have only looked at abstract):
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118053

[fmichonneau]

Blog post from NatureJobs on how to publish a data paper: http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2014/12/04/how-to-publish-your-data-in-a-data-journal

[PBarmby]

Nice webpage from USGS that covers some of the same topics http://www.usgs.gov/datamanagement/plan/dataformats.php

[emhart]

Closing because paper is now in production.