Raising the status of software in research: A survey-based evaluation of the Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship Programme
Raising the status of software in research: A survey-based evaluation of the Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship Programme
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提高软件在研究中的地位：对软件可持续性研究所奖学金计划的基于调查的评估
DOI：
10.7287/peerj.preprints.26849v1
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2018
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C. Jay
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Shoaib Sufi;C. Jay
背景：本文报告了对软件可持续发展研究所奖学金计划的评估结果，该评估的重点是通过一系列开放的问题确定和分类该奖学金为其接受者提供的好处。方法：评估采取了一项调查的形式，调查对象是2012至2016年间获得奖学金的人，要求他们报告该计划对他们、他们的机构、他们的研究领域和他们的职业产生的影响。结果：结果表明，该奖学金在支持最佳实践和技能转移社区方面发挥了广泛的作用，一个显著的好处是它提高了软件在研究中的形象，以及那些开发和倡导软件的人。结论：对该方案的评价表明，有必要支持现场研究软件，并赞扬在这一重要领域工作的工程师和研究人员，这些领域支持研究投资的可再生性、再利用和完整性。
Background: This paper reports the results of an evaluation of the Software Sustainability Institute’s Fellowship Programme, which focused on identifying and categorising the benefits that the fellowship has afforded its recipients, via a series of open questions. Methods: 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. Results: 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. Conclusions: The evaluation of the programme has shown the need to support research software in situ and credit the engineers and researchers who are working in this important area that supports reproducibility, reuse and the integrity of research investments.