New 'Whole Tale' Project Brings Research Articles to Life

“Whole Tale" is a new, five-year, $5 million National Science Foundation-funded Data Infrastructure Building Blocks’ (DIBBs) project that aims to give researchers the instructions and ingredients they need to help ensure reproducibility and pave the way for new discoveries. The NCEAS Informatics Research and Development team is collaborating with scientists at the National Center for Supercomputing (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and others on the Whole Tale project.

Whole Tale will enable researchers to examine, transform, and then seamlessly republish research data, creating “living articles” that will enable new discovery by allowing researchers to construct representations and syntheses of data.

"NCEAS developers will incorporate access to DataONE's rich data and software repository systems into Whole Tale making it seamless for researchers to access raw data and store new derived data products in the DataONE repository network. Researchers will be able to record full lineage information describing the history of their derived data products and the software that produced them, thereby providing information critical to reproducible computational research."

- Matt Jones, Director of NCEAS Informatics Research and Development

Follow the development of this five-year project at: http://wholetale.org/

Press release by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications