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Archiving Software Surrogates on the Web for Future Reference

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Abstract

Software has long been established as an essential aspect of the scientific process in mathematics and other disciplines. However, reliably referencing software in scientific publications is still challenging for various reasons. A crucial factor is that software dynamics with temporal versions or states are difficult to capture over time. We propose to archive and reference surrogates instead, which can be found on the Web and reflect the actual software to a remarkable extent. Our study shows that about a half of the webpages of software are already archived with almost all of them including some kind of documentation.

This work is partly funded by the German Research Council under FID Math and the European Research Council under ALEXANDRIA (ERC 339233).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://blog.wolfram.com/2007/09/25/arithmetic-is-hard-to-get-right [from 25/09/2007].

  2. 2.

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/943075 [from 09/10/2007].

  3. 3.

    https://git-scm.com.

  4. 4.

    http://www.software.ac.uk/.

  5. 5.

    http://www.dcc.ac.uk/.

  6. 6.

    http://www.sciforge-project.org/.

  7. 7.

    http://mpc.zib.de/.

  8. 8.

    http://fair-dom.org/.

  9. 9.

    http://software.ac.uk/so-exactly-what-software-did-you-use.

  10. 10.

    http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2012-06-22-how-describe-software-you-used-your- research-top-ten-tips.

  11. 11.

    http://www.re3data.org/.

  12. 12.

    http://dataverse.org/.

  13. 13.

    http://www.swmath.org.

  14. 14.

    http://archive.org.

  15. 15.

    http://www.zbmath.org.

  16. 16.

    https://github.com/helgeho/Web2Warc (Last commit 73f0934 on Jan 29, 2016).

  17. 17.

    https://archive.org/help/wayback_api.php.

  18. 18.

    https://github.com/helgeho/ArchiveSpark (Last commit acc5a16 on Feb 17, 2016).

  19. 19.

    This dataset has been provided to us by the Internet Archive in the context of ALEXANDRIA (http://alexandria-project.eu).

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  1. L3S Research Center, Appelstr. 9a, 30167, Hannover, Germany

    Helge Holzmann

  2. zbMATH, FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Franklinstr. 11, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Wolfram Sperber

  3. German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), Welfengarten 1b, 30167, Hannover, Germany

    Mila Runnwerth

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Holzmann, H., Sperber, W., Runnwerth, M. (2016). Archiving Software Surrogates on the Web for Future Reference. In: Fuhr, N., Kovács, L., Risse, T., Nejdl, W. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9819. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43997-6_17

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