Preserving Open Access Datasets and Software for Sustained Computational Reproducibility

The Old Dominion University (ODU), in collaboration with the Internet Archive (IA) and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech), was awarded a 3-year applied research project for preserving endangered Open Access Datasets and Software (OADS), i.e., publicly and freely available digital datasets and software packages used for reproducing research results reported in scholarly works. We focus on scholarly papers (journal articles and conference proceedings) and electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in multiple disciplines. We are grateful to the Institute of Museum of Library Services (IMLS) for this award!
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Past Projects

Synthetic Prediction Markets with Algorithm Traders for Determining Experimental Reproducibility

This project studies repeatability and reproducibility of experiments in academic papers published in social science by researching and developing systems and methods for assigning confidence scores to specific findings published in the social science literature. The final product is a synthesized prediction market that automatically assess replicability of research claims. This project is supported by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). It is a collaborative effort of The Center for Open Science, Pennsylvania State University, Texas A&M University, Microsoft Research, ODU, and several other universities and research institutes. The ODU team works with PSU and Texas A&M University to perform information extraction from scholarly papers.
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