Open Software

Simon Hettrick

26 August 2021 - IROC Open Research Workshop      @sjh5000     ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195

"scientific knowledge of all kinds should be openly shared as early as practical in the discovery process"

- Michael Nielsen

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Experiment

Data

Analysis

Publication

Requires software

Requires software

Requires software

Requires software

Open research requires open software 

Who relies on software?

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Study at: https://goo.gl/gmHwGm

Use

software

Fundamental to

results

69%

92%

What is

Open Software?

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Open source

Software based on code that is publicly accessible: anyone can see, modify, and distribute the code as they see fit.

Findable

Accessible

Interoperable

Re-usable

Open is not easy

  • Awareness

  • Skills

  • Incentives

Software Sustainability Institute

Cultivating better, more sustainable research software to enable world-class research

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Awareness

www.software.ac.uk

Fellowship programme

Fellowship

https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes-and-events/fellowship-programme

Skills

Research Software

Engineers

30 RSE Groups

society-rse.org/community/rse-groups

Incentives

www.hidden-ref.org

Open research requires open software 

Thank you!

@sjh5000

ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195

EPSRC Grant no: EP/S021779/1

Licence

 © Simon Hettrick

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Open Software

By Simon Hettrick

Open Software

Online presentation for IROC Open Research Workshop, British Library, 26 August 2021.

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