Cloud and web-based platform for dissemination of computational solid mechanics
Category
Explore
Institutions
EPFL
Data type
Computational Solid Mechanics (CSM)
Field
Civil Engineering
Researchers
Guillaume Anciaux, Jean-François Molinari, Nicolas Richart
Description
This project aims at providing platform and tools to support computational solid mechanics (CSM) scientists in their duty to publish the data accompanying their academic papers. The approach foresees to simplify all actions necessary to guaranty reproducibility, including the saving of experimental facts, simulation output results, as well as a documented versioning of the employed codes. In essence, the produced tools will allow to save data and processes on a variety of repositories. This enables to share data at all stages, i.e. the creation, analysis, curation and archiving.
So far, the developed tools consist of both terminal clients and web-based friendly interfaces where the ultimate submission to Zenodo as a normalized and curated dataset was simplified substantially. Web interfaces are deployable on personal computers, on Renku instances, and on a dedicated server. All the produced source code is available on GitLab (https://gitlab.com/dcsm/) with an open license (GPLv3). An online documentation for users has been created (https://solidipes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). During the first part of the project, G. Anciaux became a “Data Editor” for the JTCAM diamond open access journal (https://jtcam.episciences.org/) where a service was deployed thanks to this project developments to help curating datasets submitted by authors, before a final export to Zenodo.
A few presentations and meetings have been made already and others are already planned. G. Anciaux also made direct contact with the Renku developers team, the EPFL library, the Open Science department of EPFL and the LASTRO (https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lastro/) to advertise this project which generally expressed a large interest for this project.