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by nearmuse 1656 days ago
So they would suffer the same decay all other web resources do? Broken links, no longer maintained tools, their opinionated choice (or lack of flexibility - which text + mathematical notation do have - if a set of stacks and data formats gets standardized).

Nobody is preventing scientists from publishing code and data in addition to & before the paper, which imho itself should be as conservative in format as possible to provide the most universal baseline for understanding, reproducibility, and reliability.

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> So they would suffer the same decay all other web resources do? Broken links, no longer maintained tools, their opinionated choice (or lack of flexibility - which text + mathematical notation do have - if a set of stacks and data formats gets standardized).

Tools like Zenodo [1] are meant to solve this exact problem, and ensure these kinds of data don't suffer web decay.

[1] https://zenodo.org/