Addressing research software sustainability via institutes
Addressing research software sustainability via institutes
Research software is essential to modern research, but it requires ongoing human effort to sustain: to continually adapt to changes in dependencies, to fix bugs, and to add new features. Software sustainability institutes, amongst others, develop, maintain, and disseminate best practices for research software sustainability, and build community around them. These practices can both reduce the amount of effort that is needed and create an environment where the effort is appreciated and rewarded. The UK SSI is such an institute, and the US URSSI and the Australian AuSSI are planning to become institutes, and this extended abstract discusses them and the strengths and weaknesses of this approach.
Research Software, research software sustainability, Research Software Engineer, Research Software Engineering, RSE
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Katz, Daniel S.
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Carver, Jeffrey C.
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Hettrick, Simon
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Honeyman, Tom
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Ram, Karthik
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7 July 2021
Katz, Daniel S.
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Carver, Jeffrey C.
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Chue hong, Neil P.
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Gesing, Sandra
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Hettrick, Simon
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Honeyman, Tom
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Ram, Karthik
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Weber, Nicholas
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Katz, Daniel S., Carver, Jeffrey C., Chue hong, Neil P., Gesing, Sandra, Hettrick, Simon, Honeyman, Tom, Ram, Karthik and Weber, Nicholas
(2021)
Addressing research software sustainability via institutes.
In Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Body of Knowledge for Software Sustainability (BoKSS).
IEEE.
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(doi:10.1109/BoKSS52540.2021.00013).
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Abstract
Research software is essential to modern research, but it requires ongoing human effort to sustain: to continually adapt to changes in dependencies, to fix bugs, and to add new features. Software sustainability institutes, amongst others, develop, maintain, and disseminate best practices for research software sustainability, and build community around them. These practices can both reduce the amount of effort that is needed and create an environment where the effort is appreciated and rewarded. The UK SSI is such an institute, and the US URSSI and the Australian AuSSI are planning to become institutes, and this extended abstract discusses them and the strengths and weaknesses of this approach.
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Published date: 7 July 2021
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IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Body of Knowledge for Software Sustainability (BoKSS), , Virtual, 2021-06-01 - 2021-06-02
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Research Software, research software sustainability, Research Software Engineer, Research Software Engineering, RSE
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