July 13-16, Vancouver – We aim in this workshop to gather speakers to discuss best practices for “reproducible research”: The idea that research contributions in the computational sciences involve not only publication of an article in an academic venue, but also release of sufficient components of the software and data such that the results claimed can be reproduced and extended by other scientists.

In early 2005, researchers affiliated with Hall B wanted to transfer the raw data from a recent experiment, the g11 run, from the tape silo to computers offsite. Had they been able to simply send the data out through Jefferson Lab’s network connection — with no one else sending e-mail, downloading papers or reading physics news on the web…