DCAS v1.0 Compliance Self-Assessment

Created on January 25, 2023

2023   ·   standards   reproducibility   provenance   dcas   ·   dataeditor

DCAS Logo On 2022-12-15, various data editors, including myself, launched the Data and Code Availability Standard (DCAS). In this post, I will do a self-assessment of my claim that the AEA’s Data and Code Availability Policy (DCAP) complies with DCAS. The assessment is based on DCAS V1.0 rules, compared to the DCAP as of January 2023.

A few last notes

The current AEA policy was created before the release of the Data and Code Availability Standard. As the AEA and other journals align on a common standard, we will likely more closely adjust how our policy is expressed with the standard, making compliance by authors less well versed in these things easier.

I welcome any feedback.



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