Best practices for model sharing

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The NSF-funded OntoSoft project (https://ontosoft.org/) was designed to promote software sharing. Articulating best practices was important but we found many barriers to share software, such as my code is not very high quality, GitHub is very hard to learn/use, the code does not matter for a science investigation, etc etc. So educating the community is crucial. We formed an early career advisory board of 30 researchers to understand and address those barriers. We learned a lot about the barriers to adopt the best practices. One of them was that people would only pay attention about best practices IN THE CONTEXT OF WRITING A PAPER, so that is why the initiative was dubbed the Scientific Paper of the Future. The training materials here have a lot of material that addresses the concerns that we heard: https://scientificpaperofthefuture.org/materials.html. This led to on https://scientificpaperofthefuture.org/ and https://scientificpaperofthefuture.org/gpf/, this paper contains a wealth of best practices:

Towards the Geoscience Paper of the Future: Best Practices for Documenting and Sharing Research from Data to Software to Provenance. Gil, Y.; David, C. H.; Demir, I.; Essawy, B. T.; Fulweiler, R. W.; Goodall, J. L.; Karlstrom, L.; Lee, H.; Mills, H. J.; Oh, J.; Pierce, S. A; Pope, A.; Tzeng, M. W.; Villamizar, S. R.; and Yu, X. Earth and Space Science, 3. 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015EA000136

The training materials are available here: https://scientificpaperofthefuture.org/materials.html