Knowledge Exchange: New Report on Research Software Sustainability published
Posted: March 3rd, 2016 | Author: Sven | Filed under: found on the net, Report, Workshop | Tags: Knowledge Exchange, Software, sustainability | Comments Off on Knowledge Exchange: New Report on Research Software Sustainability published
Knowledge Exchange, a consortium of five national organisations within Europe tasked with developing infrastructure and services to enable the use
of digital technologies to improve higher education and research, has just a released another report on research software sustainability. The report is motivated by the importance of research software for the whole scientific process in every research discipline. The report argues:
“Without software, modern research would not be possible. Understandably, people tend to marvel at results rather than the tools used in their discovery, which means the fundamental role of software in research has been largely overlooked. But whether it is widely recognised or not, research is inexorably connected to the software that is used to generate results, and if we continue to overlook software we put at risk the reliability and reproducibility of the research itself.”
