CODECHECK NL Workshop for Engineering Sciences

Are you a researcher in engineering interested in reproducible code and Open Science? We have the perfect opportunity for you! 

As part of our newly launched NWO project CHECK-NL, we are looking for researchers from the field of engineering at a Dutch knowledge institution or university who would like their papers or projects to be “codechecked” during a live, one-day code-checking workshop on 30th May 2024, at the X-building in TU Delft.  A codecheck is a light-touch independent peer review to check that your code and data can generate the computational results in your paper or project (see more details here). 

You can participate as a codechecker (a person reviewing code), or by submitting your own work to be checked (or both if you are up for it!)

Anyone from the engineering sciences is welcome to participate in the workshop at Delft. Participation is free of cost and includes lunch. We have limited funding (on a first come, first served basis) for reimbursing train tickets for PhD (non-AiO) students.

If you cannot make this workshop, there will be further opportunities later in the year as we plan three more workshops around the Netherlands.

What do I get if I submit my code? 

A codechecker will work with you during the session to check whether your code and data can be run by others to generate the same or similar results. 

The codechecker will work with you to resolve any issues found during the codecheck, and make your code as reproducible as possible! 

Upon completion, your paper will receive a codecheck certificate that confirms your results could be reproduced.  This can be shared, for example, with potential journal editors, to enhance the visibility and reproducibility of your work.  

By participating, you contribute towards making science more open and transparent AND increase the visibility of your own research! 

Sounds good! What should I do? 

Are you interested in submitting code or data for this event, and helping to promote code reproducibility? Send an email to codechecknl@gmail.com by 30th April 2024 with a brief description of your paper/project, and links to your code and data. This could be code related to: 

  • A paper that you have recently published 

  • A preprint that is publicly available 

  • Code and results files that have been or will be deposited in a repository, preferably GitHub or GitLab 

In each case, the code and data underlying the paper should be openly available, or you plan to make them available once the paper is published.

Selected papers/projects will be notified in early May 2024.

Would you instead like to participate in the workshop and learn how to codecheck? All participants are invited to register on the event page and join the workshop.

For questions related to the NWO project CHECK-NL, please contact Frank Ostermann (f.o.ostermann@utwente.nl)