For people interested in this not just in computer science but in science more generally it&#x27;s worth looking at stuff on provenance.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Provenance#Science" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Provenance#Science</a><p>There is a W3C group that is all about setting things up so that the use of big data repositories and complex scientific code can be used so that others can replicate the findings:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;2005&#x2F;Incubator&#x2F;prov&#x2F;XGR-prov-20101214&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;2005&#x2F;Incubator&#x2F;prov&#x2F;XGR-prov-20101214&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s actually fairly terrible that in Environmental Science and quite a bit of Economics and other areas the code and data is meant to be around but really isn&#x27;t.<p>There is a decent short introductory page here:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ands.org.au&#x2F;partners-and-communities&#x2F;ands-communities&#x2F;data-provenance-interest-group" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ands.org.au&#x2F;partners-and-communities&#x2F;ands-communi...</a>