The appropriation of GitHub for curation

Wu, Yu; Wang, Na; Kropczynski, Jess; Carroll, John M.

doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.134

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“…Distill uses GitHub for transparent peer review and post-publication peer review [84]. GitHub is increasingly used for resource curation [85], and collaborative scholarly reviews combine literature curation with discussion and interpretation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Open collaborative writing with Manubot

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Open, collaborative research is a powerful paradigm that can immensely strengthen the scientific process by integrating broad and diverse expertise. However, traditional research and multi-author writing processes break down at scale. We present new software named Manubot, available at https://manubot.org , to address the challenges of open scholarly writing. Manubot adopts the contribution workflow used by many large-scale open source software projects to enable collaborative authoring of scholarly manuscripts. With Manubot, manuscripts are written in Markdown and stored in a Git repository to precisely track changes over time. By hosting manuscript repositories publicly, such as on GitHub, multiple authors can simultaneously propose and review changes. A cloud service automatically evaluates proposed changes to catch errors. Publication with Manubot is continuous: When a manuscript’s source changes, the rendered outputs are rebuilt and republished to a web page. Manubot automates bibliographic tasks by implementing citation by identifier, where users cite persistent identifiers (e.g. DOIs, PubMed IDs, ISBNs, URLs), whose metadata is then retrieved and converted to a user-specified style. Manubot modernizes publishing to align with the ideals of open science by making it transparent, reproducible, immediate, versioned, collaborative, and free of charge.

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“…Other very strong motivations for sharing are enjoyment and being creative while contributing to software development. Another study [17] showed that software developers have intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. According to their study the main intrinsic motivation is altruism; the main extrinsic motivations are personal needs (e.g., efficient learning tools, communication with the community) and peer recognition.…”

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Sharing Open Deep Learning Models

Dalgali¹,

Crowston

2019

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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We examine how and why trained deep learning (DL) models are shared, and by whom, and why some developers share their models while others do not. Prior research has examined sharing of data and software code, but DL models are a hybrid of the two. The results from a Qualtrics survey administered to GitHub users and academics who publish on DL show that a diverse population shares DL models, from students to computer/data scientists. We find that motivations for sharing include: increasing citation rates; contributing to the collaboration of developing new DL models; encouraging to reuse; establishing a good reputation; receiving feedback to improve the model; and personal enjoyment. Reasons for not sharing include: lack of time; thinking that their models would not be interesting for others; and not having permission for sharing. The study contributes to our understanding of motivations for participating in a novel form of peer-production.

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“…Prior literature has documented software practices on GitHub well [1,2,8], and some literature has provided insights into the curator's motivations and the users' experiences with curation repositories [3,4]. However, a gap still exists in how GitHub features are utilized in curation repositories and how they are adopted differently, as compared to the intended software practice.…”

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“…Studies of this phenomenon have investigated the motivations of curators and user experiences with curation repositories [3,4]. The analysis of GitHub features for supporting curation, as well as the role that curation repositories have been playing in the software developers' community, are still missing.…”

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Understanding How GitHub Supports Curation Repositories

Kropczynski

Prates

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Future Internet

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Abstract:In recent years, software developers have started to appropriate GitHub repositories to curate resources, in order to systematically select, evaluate, and organize existing artifacts for preservation and future use. Curation behaviors in social media sites, such as users' experiences to curate tweets from Twitter and pins on Pinterest, are well documented. However, GitHub, as a social coding platform, presents a new context for this activity, raising questions about the nature of curation on this task-driven online work site. To explore and understand curation on GitHub, we compared and contrasted curation repositories with software repositories using activity logs and analyzed the content of popular curation repositories. Our results show that: (1) curation repositories have become a favorite category of repositories in GitHub; (2) curation repositories leverage collaborative features and practices native to GitHub in new ways; (3) curation repositories collect and preserve high-quality resources for the software developers' community. Our results suggest that curation is becoming increasingly important to the software developers' community, and current practices can be better supported with tools designed specifically for curation.

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The appropriation of GitHub for curation

Cited by 6 publications

References 25 publications

Open collaborative writing with Manubot

Open collaborative writing with Manubot

Sharing Open Deep Learning Models

Understanding How GitHub Supports Curation Repositories

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