Towards Open Science in Acoustics: Foundations and Best Practices

S Spors, M Geier, H Wierstorf, "Towards Open Science in Acoustics: Foundations and Best Practices," in Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2017, (2017). [ link ] [ paper ] [ presentation ]

Bibtex

@misc{Spors2017a,
    title     = {{Towards Open Science in Acoustics: Foundations and Best
                  Practices}},
    author    = {Spors, Sascha and Geier, Matthias and Wierstorf, Hagen},
    booktitle = {Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2017},
    publisher = {DEGA e.V.},
    address   = {Kiel, Germany},
    month     = {March},
    year      = {2017}
}

Abstract

The reproducibility of results is one of the main principles of the scientific method. The irreproducibility of a wide range of scientific results has recently drawn significant attention. Besides problems in the research methods themselves, results were often not reproducible since necessary supplementary material as protocols, data and implementations were not available. Another issue is the lacking availability of data for further research by third parties. In many cases only the published results are available to other researchers. Open Science focuses on the ease of access and reproducibility of scientific results. This contribution introduces the concept of reproducibility and addresses common concerns. Best practices for Open Science in acoustics research are discussed and illustrated at examples.