Software Sustainability in Practice

Open Research Team, University of York

Computer software for research - seminar.

Computer software is foundational in many fields of research, and its contributions to all stages of the research process continue to grow. According to <a href="https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2014-12-04-its-impossible-conduct-research-without-software-say-7-out-10-uk-researchers" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">a study</a> carried out by the Software Sustainability institute, 7 out of 10 researchers reported that their work would be impossible without software. This sentiment points to the importance of software development practices being considerate of the future, when others may need to use or modify the same software that you have created in order to carry out further work.Sustainable software development is closely coupled with open and reproducible research practices. For results created with software to be reproducible, others need to be able find, understand, and run your software. Are they likely to understand what your software does without appropriate documentation? Are they likely to be able to get your software running if it can’t be straightforwardly installed? Will they be able to credit your software if they can’t find it? These are just a few issues that will prevent research outputs from being truly open and reproducible, and that sustainable software development practices can help with.This event hopes to bring together interested researchers from any field to learn about software sustainability. Through talks and discussion, the aims are to share resources, highlight practices that individuals / teams have found useful (or not useful!), and encourage opportunities for future skill sharing at the University.This event has been organised by the University Open Research Operations Group as part of our series of <a href="https://www.york.ac.uk/staff/research/open-research/open-research-at-york/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Open Research at York</a> initiatives.Programme:<a href="https://www.software.ac.uk/about/staff/person/simon-hettrick" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Prof Simon Hettrick</a> (Software Sustainability Institute Deputy Director)Simon Hettrick is Deputy Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Director of the Southampton Research Software Group. He works with stakeholders from across the research community to develop policies that support research software, the people who develop that software and the researchers who rely on it. He is a passionate advocate for Research Software Engineers and orchestrated the campaign that gained recognition for this community. His current campaign, the Hidden REF, aims to recognise all research outputs and everyone who makes them possible. <a href="https://www.york.ac.uk/environment/our-staff/jon-hill/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr Jon Hill </a>(SSI Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Environment and Geography)<a href="https://www.york.ac.uk/biology/our-staff/emma-rand/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Emma Rand</a> (SSI Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Biology)Dr Peter Hill (EPSRC RSE Fellow, York Plasma Institute) Host: Emma Barnes (Research &amp; High-performance Computing Team Leader)

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