It Seems That Everyone Cares

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Ars Technica isn't primarily a science site, but even they are now worried about reproducibility in computational science. I think it no longer matters how important this "crisis" actually is—sooner or later, major funding agencies are going to mandate adoption of something like the Open Provenance Model. Problem is, given the current skill set of the average scientist, that will almost certainly translate into burden without benefit.