Simon Hettrick
Professor Simon Hettrick is Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Director of the Southampton Research Software Group.
Software sustainability: why it's vital to research
20 April 2021 - York Open Research @sjh5000 ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195
Simon Hettrick
Software is
not
binary
Research software is any software that is used to generate, process or analyse results that you intend to appear in a publication.
It can be anything from a few lines of code written by yourself, to a professionally developed software package.
How important is software?
Use
software
Fundamental to
results
Develop own code
69%
92%
56%
Software in publications
65%
31 UK institutions ~ 600k papers
How we're helping
Fellowship programme
Fellowship
https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes-and-events/fellowship-programme
The Carpentries
https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes-and-events/carpentry-programmes
Research Software Engineers
https://society-rse.org/
https://hidden-ref.org/
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Review your work and be explicit about your software use, esp. grant applications and publications (preferably with a DOI)
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Attend a Carpentries course, and get your colleagues to attend too
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Store your software in a repository and licence it
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Get someone else to try to use your software and give you feedback
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Talk to your RSE group and, if you don't have one, ask your senior management why
5 ways you can help sustainability
Thank you!
@sjh5000
ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195, EPSRC Grant no: EP/S021779/1
Licence
© Simon Hettrick
These slides are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Slides
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Image licences
- Cleanroom - Unsplash licence - https://unsplash.com/photos/DsC24AEuYjc
- Sunflowers - Gandalf's Gallery - CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/gandalfsgallery/8993664971
- AI - www.vpnsrus.com CC BY 2.0 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/152824664@N07/30188200627
- Change is coming - Unsplash licence - https://unsplash.com/photos/-iOE0qBkioc
- Fellowship - University of Edinburgh on behalf of Software Sustainability Institute CC BY-NC 2.5
- Carpentries - bebatut CC BY-SA 2.0 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/134305289@N03/42464629032/in/album-72157667641880727/
- RSEs - by permission of Society of RSE
- Hidden REF - CC-BY
- Britons! - Public domain - https://loc.getarchive.net/media/britons-your-country-needs-you-printed-by-saunders-and-cullingham-2-and-3-burgon
- Dawn - Unsplash licence - https://unsplash.com/photos/Go02ECyCkfc
Software sustainability: why it's vital to research
By Simon Hettrick
Software sustainability: why it's vital to research
Touching on the importance of software, a description of software sustainability as culture change, a short tour of some of the Institute's work and a list of 5 things anyone can do to support software sustainability. Presented at York Open Research event on 20 April 2021.
