Research software is an essential part of most research today, as I’ve written about before. One of the important models that allows people to develop and maintain it is grant funding: someone proposes...
When thinking about a group adding a new person, we often think that while the group will benefit from adding the new person in the long run, there is a cost to the group in the initial period. But I want...
While at the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative’s Open Science 2022 Annual Meeting a couple of weeks ago, I was struck by a comment from Demetris Cheatham about how she hadn’t known about the scientific open-source...
I’m writing this blog post in preparation for a contribution to the upcoming RDA Plenary 19 session “BoF: Sharing code that supports research articles: is it time to align goals and publisher policies?”...
I’m very pleased to see that the Netherlands group working on “Software Management Plans: Towards national guidelines” has released a draft set of guidelines for community consultation (through 20 June 2022)...
(by Daniel S. Katz and Tom Honeyman) There are a number of challenges in rewarding scholars for their work in software, including the fact that both software itself and the idea of it being of scholarly...
[Note: In December 2021, I decided to write down my experiences with the founding of US-RSE. Vanessa Sochat convinced me that it would make more sense for all interested US-RSE members to write a collective...
While I was a program director at NSF, I led the SI2 (Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation) program that had been created by Manish Parashar and Abani Patra, then was led by Gabrielle Allen,...
I recently attended the hybrid SC21 conference in person, as one of the about 3000 in-person attendees, along with several thousand virtual attendees. (I don’t know the exact numbers, but in the past, an SC...
(by Daniel S. Katz, Kenton McHenry, Jong S. Lee) (in conjunction with a talk [slides, video] presented 28 September 2021 at SeptembRSE) Over the past nine years there has been growing acceptance of the...