Software Sustainability Institute

www.software.ac.uk

Sustainable Industry

Sustainable Services Sustainable Culture

Sustainable Software

What do I do?

Software Sustainability Institute

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The Foundations of Digital Research

www.software.ac.uk/ software-evaluation-guide resources/guides software-carpentry training

Software Sustainability InstituteN.ChueHong@software.ac.ukNeil Chue Hong (@npch)

www.software.ac.uk/blog/2012-11-09-craftsperson-and-scholar

software.ac.uk/blog/2012-08-16-what-research-software-community-and-why-should-you-care

www.software.ac.uk/blog/2011-05-02-publish-or-be-damned-alternative-impact-manifesto-research-software

https://impactstory.org/NeilChueHongORCID: 0000-0002-8876-7606

Supported by Project funding from

Isn’t software just data?

http://beyond-impact.org/?p=175

• Journal of Open Research Software• http://openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/

• Role of Repositories• http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/5905

• Publication for Discovery• JISC-funded Software Hub project

And we haven’t talked about authorship yet…

Software Sustainability Institute

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5 Stars of Research Software

• Community (required for sustainability) There is a community infrastructure

• Open (req. for modification) Software has permissive license

• Defined (req. for preservation) Accurate metadata for the software

• Extensible (req. for reproducibility) Usable, modifiable for my purpose

• Runnable (req. for publication) I can access and run software

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c.f.5 Stars of Linked Data (Berners-Lee)5 Stars of Online Journals (Shotton)

“Golden Star”Originally by Ssolbergj

CC-BY

http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2013-04-09-five-stars-research-softwareMinimal Information for Reusable Scientific Software: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1112528