Towards computational research objects

Research Objects are bundles of the digital bits and pieces that make up the reusable record of a piece of research; they are identifiable, citable and sharable. The evolution of this idea within digital research practice has led to the development of workflow-centric Research Objects with executable components. To address the evolving requirements of research we propose a further step, towards objects that are composable and executable by machine: Computational Research Objects -- a vision in which the content of our digital libraries is autonomously conducting research.

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