Simon Hettrick
Professor Simon Hettrick is Director of Strategy at the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Director of the Southampton Research Software Group.
Why recognising scientific software experts
is key to open science
13 June 2019 - Lisbon Council Webinar @sjh5000 ORCID: 0000-0002-6809-5195
By Simon Hettrick
How it used to be
In the beginning...
Vive la révolution!
Zeitgeists!
It's not just the zeitgeists...
Use
software
Fundamental to
results
Develop own code
69%
92%
56%
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?
Online courses and books
Attended a course
No training
29%
46%
50%
25%
0%
25%
No career path for software developers
Stagnation
...or, at least, very slow progress under a strong headwind
Academics
Everyone else
in the entire
world
People who are
important in academia
The Venn of academic importance
People who develop software must be recognised
Research
Software
Engineering
Researcher
Software
Engineer
Researcher
developer
Research
Software
Engineer
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
"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?
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Software is vital to research
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Unrecognised software experts have existed in academia for decades
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The role of the Research Software Engineer has become widely accepted
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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
Why Recognising Scientific Software Experts is Key to Open Science
By Simon Hettrick
Why Recognising Scientific Software Experts is Key to Open Science
Webinar for the Lisbon Council 13 June 2019, Southampton. Video available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt8n6XLWVX8&t=11m14s
