SGCI - RDA - Sustainability of Collaborative Platforms
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Sustainability of collaborative platforms Sustainability is a recognised challenge for both providers and users of virtual research environments (VRE), science gateways (SG) or virtual laboratories (VL). But what factors contribute to their sustainability and how can we influence them?
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- 2. Sustainability of ScienFfic SoJware Sandra Gesing 2 • 610.12-1990 - IEEE Standard Glossary of SoJware Engineering Terminology “the process of modifying a soJware system or component aJer delivery to correct faults, improve performance, or other aQributes or adapt to a changed environment” • UK SoJware Sustainability InsFtute “soJware you use today will be available - and conFnue to be improved and supported - in the future”
- 3. Importance of CollaboraFve PlaHorms Sandra Gesing 3 • surveys, for example, [1] that was answered in 2014 by 4957 researchers across domains • in mature, widely used frameworks such as HUBzero® and Apache Airavata • science gateways directly menFoned in solicitaFons by • the NaFonal Science FoundaFon (NSF) • NaFonal InsFtutes of Health (NIH) • Department of Energy (DOE) • funding of the Science Gateways Community InsFtute (SGCI) • RDA [1] Lawrence, KA, Zentner, M, Wilkins-Diehr, N, Wernert, JA, Pierce, M, Marru, S, Michael, S. 2015. “Science gateways today and tomorrow: PosiFve perspecFves of nearly 5,000 members of the research community,” Concurrency and ComputaFon: PracFce and Experience 2015, DOI: 10.1002/cpe.3526.
- 4. Importance of ScienFfic SoJware Sandra Gesing 4 In 2009 a survey was published with answers from 2000 researchers. • 91% answered that using scienFfic soJware is important for their own research • 84% answered that developing scienFfic soJware is important for their own research • 53.5% answered that they spend more Fme developing scienFfic soJware than they did 10 years ago • 38% spend at least one fiJh of their Fme developing soJware J.E. Hannay et al., "How Do ScienFsts Develop and Use ScienFfic SoJware?", Proc. ICSE Workshop SoJware Eng. for ComputaFonal Science and Eng., pp. 1-8, 2009.
- 5. SoJware Sustainability Sandra Gesing 5 RecogniFon of its importance reflected in • workshops such as WSSSPE (Working Towards Sustainable SoJware for Science: SoJware and Experiences) • consorFum Advanced CyberInfrastructure - Research and EducaFon Facilitators (ACI-REF) • data and soJware carpentry events • funding for soJware sustainability by NSF and NIH • UK SoJware Sustainability InsFtute • Research SoJware Engineers in the UK • RDA working groups
- 6. Challenges Sandra Gesing 6 • Funding • Development and community (best pracFces, engineering design, metrics, outreach etc.) • Career paths • Training • Credit • SoJware publishing • Reproducibility in conferences and journals (code tesFng and code review)