Year: 2021
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Research software is essential to modern research, but it requires ongoing human effort to sustain: to continually adapt to changes in dependencies, to fix bugs, and to add new features. Software sustainability institutes, amongst others, develop, maintain, and disseminate best practices for research software sustainability, and build community around them. These practices can both reduce the amount of effort that is needed and create an environment where the effort is appreciated and rewarded. The UK SSI is such an institute, and the US URSSI and the Australian AuSSI are planning to become institutes, and this extended abstract discusses them and the strengths and weaknesses of this approach.
Institutions: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Alabama, Software Sustainability Institute, University of Edinburgh, University of Notre Dame, University of Southampton, University of Technology Sydney, Australian Research Data Commons, University of California, Berkeley, University of Washington
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G5328447203, G7110065727, G7436348507
OpenAlex ID: W3135904803