Towards a Total Traceability of Research Collaboration: a New Distributed Research Oriented Version Control System

Collaboration during scientific research activities has become an important issue due to the high competitive environments. Finding effective tools to facilitate collaborative project initiation, sharing ideas and data using the internet infrastructures is a challenge even with the most advanced technology and trained professionals. In this paper we describe a new online version control system equipped with a full action tracing system. Our tool is dedicated to people involved in the research activities. The tool aims to bring to researchers, developers, as well as domain experts stemming from multiple disciplines. The tools allows to co-develop scripts and computer programs to test and demonstrate research finding with a total traceability features, it allows exchange ideas, evaluate, test, reproduce and optimize research findings and artifacts and create a network for scientific community to be up to date with the latest development in this important field.