The Software Sustainability Institute:Changing Research Software Attitudes and Practices

To effect change, the Software Sustainability Institute works with researchers, developers, funders, and infrastructure providers to identify and address key issues with research software

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

Toward standard practices for sharing computer code and programs in neuroscience

Computational techniques are central in many areas of neuroscience and are relatively easy to share. This paper describes why computer programs underlying scientific publications should be shared and lists simple steps for sharing. Together with ongoing efforts in data sharing, this should aid reproducibility of research.This article is based on discussions from a workshop to encourage sharing in neuroscience, held in Cambridge, UK, December 2014. It was financially supported and organized by the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (http://www.incf.org), with additional support from the Software Sustainability institute (http://www.software.ac.uk). M.H. was supported by funds from the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Project: Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences

Raising the status of software in research: A survey-based evaluation of the Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship Programme

This paper reports the results of an evaluation of the Software Sustainability Institute’s Fellowship Programme, which focused on understanding the benefits that the fellowship has afforded its recipients. The evaluation took the form of a survey open to people awarded fellowships between 2012 and 2016, which asked people to report the effect that the programme had had on them, their institutions, their research domains and their careers. The results show that the fellowship plays a wide-ranging role in supporting communities of best practice and skills transfer, and that a significant benefit is the way it has raised the profile of software in research, and those people who develop and advocate for it.</jats:p

CW17 Report - IoT, Open Data, Software Sustainability and a whole host of collaborative goodness!

Collaborations Workshop 2017 (CW17), #CollabW17, took place at the plush Leeds University Business School from the 27th to 29th March 2017. Over 80 people attended, and the themes of the workshop were the Internet of Things (IoT), Open Data and Software Sustainability. With an eclectic mix of lightning talks, keynotes, Q&A panels, discussions with speed blogging, collaborative idea sessions, mini workshops & demos, a social programme and a Hack Day it was a feature packed and immersive event. In the report, we give an overview of the different parts of the agenda and details some of the outputs