TY - GEN
T1 - Building a sustainable structure for research software engineering activities
AU - Cohen, Jeremy
AU - Katz, Daniel S.
AU - Barker, Michelle
AU - Haines, Robert
AU - Hong, Neil Chue
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/12/24
Y1 - 2018/12/24
N2 - The profile of research software engineering has been greatly enhanced by developments at institutions around the world to form groups and communities that can support effective, sustainable development of research software. We observe, however, that there is still a long way to go to build a clear understanding about what approaches provide the best support for research software developers in different contexts, and how such understanding can be used to suggest more formal structures, models or frameworks that can help to further support the growth of research software engineering. This short paper provides an overview of some preliminary thoughts and proposes an initial high-level framework based on discussions between the authors around the concept of a set of pillars representing key activities and processes that form the core structure of a successful research software engineering offering.
AB - The profile of research software engineering has been greatly enhanced by developments at institutions around the world to form groups and communities that can support effective, sustainable development of research software. We observe, however, that there is still a long way to go to build a clear understanding about what approaches provide the best support for research software developers in different contexts, and how such understanding can be used to suggest more formal structures, models or frameworks that can help to further support the growth of research software engineering. This short paper provides an overview of some preliminary thoughts and proposes an initial high-level framework based on discussions between the authors around the concept of a set of pillars representing key activities and processes that form the core structure of a successful research software engineering offering.
KW - Reproducible research
KW - Research software
KW - Research software engineering
KW - Software sustainability
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U2 - 10.1109/eScience.2018.00015
DO - 10.1109/eScience.2018.00015
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85061351888
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE 14th International Conference on eScience, e-Science 2018
SP - 31
EP - 32
BT - Proceedings - IEEE 14th International Conference on eScience, e-Science 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 14th IEEE International Conference on eScience, e-Science 2018
Y2 - 29 October 2018 through 1 November 2018
ER -