Compendium
Definition
A collection of files prepared by a researcher to support a report or publication that include the data, metadata, programming code, software dependencies, licenses, and other instructions necessary for another researcher to independently reproduce the findings presented in the report or publication.
References:
- Claerbout, J. F., & Karrenbach, M. (1992). Electronic documents give reproducible research a new meaning. SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 1992, 601–604. http://sepwww.stanford.edu/doku.php?id=sep:research:reproducible:seg92
- Gentleman, R. (2005). Reproducible Research: A Bioinformatics Case Study. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 4, 1034. https://doi.org/10.2202/1544-6115.1034
- Marwick, B., Boettiger, C., & Mullen, L. (2018). Packaging data analytical work reproducibly using R (and friends). The American Statistician, 72(1), 80–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2017.1375986
- Nüst, D. C., Boettiger, C., & Marwick, B. (2018). How to Read a Research Compendium. arXiv Preprint arXiv:1806.09525. https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09525
Originally drafted by: Ben Marwick
Reviewed by: Ali H. Al-Hoorie, Charlotte R. Pennington
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