Addressing Research Software Sustainability via Institutes

Daniel S. Katz; Jeffrey C. Carver; Neil P Chue Hong; Sandra Gesing; Simon Hettrick; Tom Honeyman; Karthik Ram; Nicolas Weber

doi:10.1109/BoKSS52540.2021.00013

Addressing Research Software Sustainability via Institutes

Daniel S. Katz, Jeffrey C. Carver, Neil P Chue Hong, Sandra Gesing, Simon Hettrick, Tom Honeyman, Karthik Ram, Nicolas Weber

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on the Body of Knowledge for Software Sustainability (BoKSS’21)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	11-12
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-6654-4460-6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-6654-4461-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/BoKSS52540.2021.00013
Publication status	Published - 7 Jul 2021
Event	1st International Workshop on the Body of Knowledge for Software Sustainability - Duration: 1 Jun 2021 → 2 Jun 2021 https://bokss.github.io/bokss2021/

Workshop

Workshop	1st International Workshop on the Body of Knowledge for Software Sustainability
Abbreviated title	BoKSS’21
Period	1/06/21 → 2/06/21
Internet address	https://bokss.github.io/bokss2021/

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1 Active
2 Finished

The UK Software Sustainability Institute: Phase 3
Chue Hong, N.
EPSRC
1/12/18 → 30/11/23
Project: Research
The Software Sustainability Institute: Phase 2
Chue Hong, N.
EPSRC
1/06/15 → 31/05/19
Project: Research
UK Software Sustainability Institute
Chue Hong, N., Parsons, M., De Roure, D. & Goble, C.
EPSRC
1/06/10 → 31/05/16
Project: Research

1 Abstract
1 Article

The Software Sustainability Institute: Changing Research Software Attitudes and Practices
Crouch, S., Chue Hong, N., Hettrick, S., Jackson, M., Pawlik, A., Sufi, S., Carr, L., De Roure, D., Goble, C. A. & Parsons, M., 4 Feb 2014, In: Computing in science & engineering. 15, 6, p. 74-80
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
File
The Research Software Engineer
Baxter, R., Chue Hong, N., Gorissen, D., Hetherington, J. & Todorov, I., 10 Sep 2012. 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review

Open Access
File

UK Research Software Survey 2014
Hettrick, S. (Creator), Antonioletti, M. (Creator), Carr, L. (Creator), Chue Hong, N. (Creator), Crouch, S. (Creator), De Roure, D. (Creator), Emsley, H. C. A. (Creator), Goble, C. (Creator), Hay, A. (Creator), Inupakutika, D. (Creator), Jackson, M. (Creator), Nenadic, A. (Creator), Parkinson, T. (Creator), Parsons, M. (Creator), Pawlik, A. (Creator), Peru, G. (Creator), Proeme, A. (Creator), Robinson, J. (Creator) & Sufi, S. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 28 May 2015
DOI: 10.7488/ds/253, https://zenodo.org/record/14809
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Katz, DS, Carver, JC, Chue Hong, NP, Gesing, S, Hettrick, S, Honeyman, T, Ram, K & Weber, N 2021, Addressing Research Software Sustainability via Institutes. in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on the Body of Knowledge for Software Sustainability (BoKSS’21). IEEE, pp. 11-12, 1st International Workshop on the Body of Knowledge for Software Sustainability, 1/06/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/BoKSS52540.2021.00013

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Addressing Research Software Sustainability via Institutes

Abstract

Workshop

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Projects

The UK Software Sustainability Institute: Phase 3

The Software Sustainability Institute: Phase 2

UK Software Sustainability Institute

Research output

The Software Sustainability Institute: Changing Research Software Attitudes and Practices

The Research Software Engineer

Datasets

UK Research Software Survey 2014 ﻿

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UK Research Software Survey 2014