TY - JOUR
T1 - FAIR-USE4OS
T2 - Guidelines for creating impactful open-source software
AU - Sonabend, Raphael
AU - Gruson, Hugo
AU - Wolansky, Leo
AU - Kiragga, Agnes
AU - Katz, Daniel S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright: © 2024 Sonabend et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2024/5
Y1 - 2024/5
N2 - AU This: paper Pleaseconfirmthatallheadinglevelsarerepresentedcorrectly extends the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, : Reusable) guidelines to provide criteria for assessing if software conforms to best practices in open source. By adding “USE” (User-Centered, Sustainable, Equitable), software development can adhere to open source best practice by incorporating user-input early on, ensuring front-end designs are accessible to all possible stakeholders, and planning long-term sustainability alongside software design. The FAIR-USE4OS guidelines will allow funders and researchers to more effectively evaluate and plan open-source software projects. There is good evidence of funders increasingly mandating that all funded research software is open source; however, even under the FAIR guidelines, this could simply mean software released on public repositories with a Zenodo DOI. By creating FAIR-USE software, best practice can be demonstrated from the very beginning of the design process and the software has the greatest chance of success by being impactful.
AB - AU This: paper Pleaseconfirmthatallheadinglevelsarerepresentedcorrectly extends the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, : Reusable) guidelines to provide criteria for assessing if software conforms to best practices in open source. By adding “USE” (User-Centered, Sustainable, Equitable), software development can adhere to open source best practice by incorporating user-input early on, ensuring front-end designs are accessible to all possible stakeholders, and planning long-term sustainability alongside software design. The FAIR-USE4OS guidelines will allow funders and researchers to more effectively evaluate and plan open-source software projects. There is good evidence of funders increasingly mandating that all funded research software is open source; however, even under the FAIR guidelines, this could simply mean software released on public repositories with a Zenodo DOI. By creating FAIR-USE software, best practice can be demonstrated from the very beginning of the design process and the software has the greatest chance of success by being impactful.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012045
DO - 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012045
M3 - Article
C2 - 38722873
AN - SCOPUS:85192829751
SN - 1553-734X
VL - 20
JO - PLoS computational biology
JF - PLoS computational biology
IS - 5 May
M1 - e1012045
ER -