QFlowCrate: A QGIS Plugin for Workflow Documentation and Provenance Capture to Enhance Geoscientific Reproducibility
References
- Barba LA. Terminologies for Reproducible Research. Computing Research Repository. 2018. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1802.03311
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Reproducibility and Replicability in Science. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press; 2019.
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25303 (Accessed 23 April 2024). - Stodden V, et al. Enhancing reproducibility for computational methods. Science. 2016;354(6317): 1240–1241. DOI: 10.1126/science.aah6168
- Stodden V, Seiler J, Ma Z. An empirical analysis of journal policy effectiveness for computational reproducibility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2018;115 (11):2584–2589. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1708290115
- Obels P, et al. Analysis of Open Data and Computational Reproducibility in Registered Reports in Psychology. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 2020;3(2): 229–237. DOI: 10.1177/2515245920918872
- Kambouris S, et al. Computationally reproducing results from meta-analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology using shared code and data. PLOS ONE. 2024;19(3):1–22. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300333
- Konkol M, Kray C, Pfeiffer M. Computational reproducibility in geoscientific papers: Insights from a series of studies with geoscientists and a reproduction study. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 2019;33(2):408–429. DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2018.1508687
- Koukouraki E, Kray C. Map Reproducibility in Geoscientific Publications: An Exploratory Study. In: Beecham R, et al., editors. 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023). Vol. 277.
Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik ;2023 . pp. 6:1–6:16. DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.6 - Kedron P, Holler J, Bardin S. Reproducible Research Practices and Barriers to Reproducible Research in Geography: Insights from a Survey. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 2024;114(2):369–386. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2023.2276115
- Samuel S, König-Ries B. Understanding experiments and research practices for reproducibility: an exploratory study. PeerJ. 2021;9:
e11140 . DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11140 - Belhajjame K, et al.
PROV-DM: The PROV Data Model . In: Moreau L, Missier P, editors. W3C Recommendation; 2013.https://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/ (Accessed 16 December 2025). - Giraud T, Lambert N.
Reproducible Cartography . In: Peterson MP, editor. Advances in Cartography and GIScience. Springer International Publishing; 2017. pp. 173–183. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57336-6_13 - Giraud T, Lambert N. Reproducible Workflow for Cartography – Migrants Deaths in the Mediterranean. Proceedings of the International Cartographic Association. 2019;2(38). DOI: 10.5194/ica-proc-2-38-2019
- Knoth C, Nüst D. Reproducibility and Practical Adoption of GEOBIA with Open-Source Software in Docker Containers. Remote Sensing. 2017;9(3):
290 . DOI: 10.3390/rs9030290 - QGIS Development Team. QGIS Geographic Information System. QGIS Association; 2025.
https://www.qgis.org . - Graser A, Sutton T, Bernasocchi M. The QGIS project: Spatial without compromise. Patterns. 2025;6(7):
101265 . DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2025.101265 - Soiland-Reyes S, et al. Packaging research artefacts with RO-Crate. Data Science. 2022;5(2):97–138. DOI: 10.3233/DS-210053
- Leo S, et al. Recording provenance of workflow runs with RO-Crate. PLOS ONE. 2024;19(9):
e0309210 . DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0309210 - RO-Crate Community.
RO-Crate Metadata Specification 1.2 . In: Sefton P, Soiland-Reyes S, editors; 2025. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13751027 - Wilkinson M, et al. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. Scientific Data. 2016;3:
160018 . DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2016.18 - Wilkinson SR, et al. Applying the FAIR Principles to computational workflows. Scientific Data. 2025;12(1):
328 . DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-04451-9 - QGIS project. The model designer — QGIS Documentation.
https://docs.qgis.org/3.44/en/docs/user_manual/processing/modeler.html (Accessed 13 April 2026). - Allen DW. Getting to Know ArcGIS ModelBuilder. Esri Press; 2011.
- Process Run Crate.
https://www.researchobject.org/workflow-run-crate/profiles/process_run_crate/ (Accessed 27 December 2025). - Leo S, et al. ro-crate-py. Version 0.14.0; 2025. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15641088
- Brooke J.
SUS – A Quick and Dirty Usability Scale . In: Jordan PW, et al., editors. Usability Evaluation in Industry. Taylor & Francis; 1996. pp. 189–194. - Bangor A, Kortum P, Miller J. Determining What Individual SUS Scores Mean: Adding an Adjective Rating Scale. Journal of Usability Studies. 2009;4(3):114–123.
- Lewis JR, Sauro J. Quantifying the User Experience: Practical Statistics for User Research. 2nd ed. Morgan Kaufmann; 2016. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-802308-2.00002-3
- CRS4. rocrate-validator Documentation. Version 0.7.3.
https://rocrate-validator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (Accessed 21 September 2025).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.704 | Journal eISSN: 2049-9647
Language: English
Page range: 44 - 44
Submitted on: Feb 18, 2026
Accepted on: May 21, 2026
Published on: Jun 5, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
© 2026 Andreas Rademaker, Eftychia Koukouraki, Brian Pondi, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.