Trusting Others to ‘Do the Math’

Researchers effectively trust the work of others anytime they use software tools or custom software. In this article I explore this notion of trusting others, using Digital Humanities as a focus, and drawing on my own experience. Software is inherently flawed and limited, so when its use in scholars...

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Autor principal: Koeser, Rebecca Sutton
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Routledge 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4917914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27365564
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2016.1165454
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spelling pubmed-49179142016-06-28 Trusting Others to ‘Do the Math’ Koeser, Rebecca Sutton Interdiscip Sci Rev Original Articles Researchers effectively trust the work of others anytime they use software tools or custom software. In this article I explore this notion of trusting others, using Digital Humanities as a focus, and drawing on my own experience. Software is inherently flawed and limited, so when its use in scholarship demands better practices and terminology, to review research software and describe development processes. It is also important to make research software engineers and their work more visible, both for the purposes of review and credit. Routledge 2015-10-02 2016-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4917914/ /pubmed/27365564 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2016.1165454 Text en © Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted.
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