TY - GEN
T1 - Addressing Research Software Sustainability via Institutes
AU - Katz, Daniel S.
AU - Carver, Jeffrey C.
AU - Hong, Neil P.Chue
AU - Gesing, Sandra
AU - Hettrick, Simon
AU - Honeyman, Tom
AU - Ram, Karthik
AU - Weber, Nicholas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - community
KW - research software
KW - software best practices
KW - software sustainability
KW - software sustainability institutes
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U2 - 10.1109/BoKSS52540.2021.00013
DO - 10.1109/BoKSS52540.2021.00013
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85114213733
T3 - Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Body of Knowledge for Software Sustainability, BoKSS 2021
SP - 11
EP - 12
BT - Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Body of Knowledge for Software Sustainability, BoKSS 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 1st IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Body of Knowledge for Software Sustainability, BoKSS 2021
Y2 - 1 June 2021 through 2 June 2021
ER -