2017-12-31: ACM Workshop on Reproducibility in Publication
On December 7 and 8 I attend the ACM Workshop on Reproducibility in Publication in NYC as part of my role as a member of the ACM Publications Board and co-chair (with Alex Wade ) of the Digital Library Committee. The purpose of this workshop was to gather input from the various ACM SIGs about the approach to reproducibility and "artifacts", objects supplementary to the conventional publication process. The workshop was attended by 50+ people, mostly from the ACM SIGs but also included representatives from other professional societies and repositories and hosting services. A collection of the slides presented at the workshop and a summary report are being worked on now, and as such this trip report is mostly my personal perspectives on the workshop; I'll update with slides, summary, and other materials as they become available. This was the third such workshop that had been held, but it was the first for me since I joined the Publications Board in September of 201...