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Scientific Software Wants To Be Free

Go read this wonderful manifesto over at arXiv: Astronomical Software Wants To Be Free: A Manifesto by Weiner et al. The authors talk about some of the barriers to astronimical software development that are true in all scientific fields. The … Continue reading

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Quantum Espresso!

I just got email from Brandon Wood about an open source project called Quantum Espresso (formerly known as PWSCF), which is a rather extensive open-source project for DFT-based electronic structure calculations. It appears to be a refactoring of some established … Continue reading

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Exhibit: make your data web-accessible

David Karger‘s lab at MIT has developed some neat web software called exhibit, which is designed to let non-ultra-sophisticated individuals publish data in ways that make it immediately accessible and interactive for people encountering it on the web. With exhibit, … Continue reading

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Researching Open Science

I don’t know how I missed this before, but there’s a really interesting article from 2006 up at the Harvard Business School “Working Knowledge” site. It details some of Karim Lakhani‘s results from a paper called ‘The Value of Openness … Continue reading

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