How it used to be

In the beginning...

Vive la révolution!

Zeitgeists!

It's not just the zeitgeists...

Percentage of cross-council funding in software-reliant research

Software in publications

65%

31 UK institutions ~ 600k papers

Software is vital to research

Who writes the software?

50%

25%

0%

No career path for software developers

Stagnation

 

...or, at least, very slow progress under a strong headwind

The Venn of academic importance

People who develop software must be recognised

Research

Software

Engineering

1413

members

29 April 2018

UK RSE Association

RSE Conference

rse.ac.uk/conf/2019

Australia/New Zealand: @rse_aunz

Germany: @RSE_de

Netherlands: @nl_rse

Nordic:  @nordic_rse

UK: @ResearchSoftEng

USA: us-rse.org

RSE Groups at

20 organisations

bit.ly/RSEGroupsInUK

www.rse.ac.uk

www.society-rse.org

"Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come"

What does that mean for open science?

How can research be open if a key contribution is hidden?

How do you make software open?

• Software is vital to research

• Unrecognised software experts have existed in academia for decades

• The role of the Research Software Engineer has become widely accepted

• The needs for these skills is even greater in Open Science

Forget everything I just said

Thank you!

@sjh5000

ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195

Licence

 © Simon Hettrick

These slides are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International 

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

These slides: http://bit.ly/OSMJun19

Studies and links

• Software survey:
  https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2017-09-06-journey-reproducibility-excel-pandas
   
• Grants data analysis:
  https://github.com/softwaresaved/software_in_grants_GTR
   
• Publication analysis coming soon
   
• Top ten reasons to be an RSE: https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2013-08-23-ten-reasons-be-research-software-engineer

 

Picture credits

Where not stated on image:

 

Big data - Tumisu

Blockchain - mmi19

Cloud computing - Pete Linforth

Cybersecurity - Darwin Laganzon

DNA - Gerd Altman

IBM PC - Ruben de Rijcke

IOT - jeferrb

Machine Learning - Gordon Johnson

Pills in hand - Tom Bullock