Report on the Workshop on Sustainable Software Sustainability 2019 (WOSSS19)

This report is based on the discussions and presentations that took place at the Workshop on Sustainable Software Sustainability (www.software.ac.uk/wosss19) in April 2019 (WOSSS19). It captures the state of the art for a range of Software Sustainability themes that were brought up by the organisers and attendees of the workshop

CLARIAH Media Suite: Enabling Scholarly Research for Audiovisual and Mixed Media Data Sets in a Sustainable, Distributed Infrastructure

The Media Suite is one of the components of the Dutch research infrastructure CLARIAH , which aims to serve the needs of media scholars, or digital humanists in general, by providing access to large audiovisual collections, that are distributed across various content providers, and their contextual data. The goal is to provide a user-friendly infrastructure, with applications to work with that data in a variety of scholarly projects. This infrastructure consists of multiple data sets and tools, it is accessible via a web-portal and is tailored to the needs of specific scholarly uses. It serves the needs for working with audiovisual data collections and related mixed-media contextual sources that are maintained by cultural heritage institutions and knowledge institutions such as The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, EYE Film Institute of the Netherlands and the National Library of The Netherlands (KB)

CLARIAH Media Suite: Enabling Scholarly Research for Audiovisual and Mixed Media Data Sets in a Sustainable, Distributed Infrastructure

The Media Suite is one of the components of the Dutch research infrastructure CLARIAH , which aims to serve the needs of media scholars, or digital humanists in general, by providing access to large audiovisual collections, that are distributed across various content providers, and their contextual data. The goal is to provide a user-friendly infrastructure, with applications to work with that data in a variety of scholarly projects. This infrastructure consists of multiple data sets and tools, it is accessible via a web-portal and is tailored to the needs of specific scholarly uses. It serves the needs for working with audiovisual data collections and related mixed-media contextual sources that are maintained by cultural heritage institutions and knowledge institutions such as The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, EYE Film Institute of the Netherlands and the National Library of The Netherlands (KB)

Top 10 FAIR Data Software Things

The Top 10 FAIR Data & Software Global Sprint was held online over the course of two-days (29-30 November 2018), where participants from around the world were invited to develop brief guides (stand alone, self paced training materials), called "Things", that can be used by the research community to understand FAIR in different contexts but also as starting points for conversations around FAIR. The idea for "Top 10 Data Things" stems from initial work done at the Australian Research Data Commons or ARDC (formerly known as the Australian National Data Service). The Global Sprint was organised by Library Carpentry, Australian Research Data Commons and the Research Data Alliance Libraries for Research Data Interest Group in collaboration with FOSTER Open Science, OpenAire, RDA Europe, Data Management Training Clearinghouse, California Digital Library, Dryad, AARNet, Center for Digital Scholarship at the Leiden University, and DANS. Anyone could join the Sprint and roughly 25 groups/individuals participated from The Netherlands, Germany, Australia, United States, Hungary, Norway, Italy, and Belgium. See the full list of registered Sprinters. Sprinters worked off of a primer that was provided in advance together with an online ARDC webinar introducing FAIR and the Sprint titled, "Ready, Set, Go! Join the Top 10 FAIR Data Things Global Sprint." Groups/individuals developed their Things in Google docs which could be accessed and edited by all participants. The Sprinters also used a Zoom channel provided by ARDC, for online calls and coordination, and a Gitter channel, provided by Library Carpentry, to chat with each other throughout the two-days. In addition, participants used the Twitter hashtag #Top10FAIR to communicate with the broader community, sometimes including images of the day. Participants greeted each other throughout the Sprint and created an overall welcoming environment. As the Sprint shifted to different timezones, it was a chance for participants to catch up. The Zoom and Gitter channels were a way for many to connect over FAIR but also discuss other topics. A number of participants did not know what to expect from a Library Carpentry/Carpentries-like event but found a welcoming environment where everyone could participate. The Top 10 FAIR Data & Software Things repository and website hosts the work of the Sprinters and is meant to be an evolving resource. Members of the wider community can submit issues and/or pull requests to the Things to help improve them. In addition, a published version of the Things will be made available via Zenodo and the Data Management Training Clearinghouse in February 2019