Ingredients for successful domain specific research software

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Abstract

Research software needs to be general enough to be used for more than one task, but specialised enough to provide an efficient interface for researchers in a specific area. I’ll talk about my experience treading this fine line, developing software for my own research domain (solar physics). From this I’ll present a list of ingredients that I think go into making a successful piece of domain specific software, and hopefully spark some discussion on this topic.

About the speaker

David Stansby is a Research Fellow in Solar Physics, based at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory at UCL. As well as researching the Sun, he actively develops and maintains scientific software packages, including Matplotlib and sunpy.

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