Rolling out the openCARP simulator as a sustainable e-research infrastructure: CARPe-diem

openCARP是一种用于心脏电生理建模和仿真的电子研究技术。这一电子研究基础设施作为SuLMaSS项目的一部分免费公开提供，受到国际社会的好评，目前已有数百名用户。通过这种融合过程，openCARP成为心脏电生理学中使用最广泛的模拟软件。openCARP由在SuLMaSS期间开发和测试的用于测试、版本控制、存档和引用的技术基础设施支持。openCARP软件生命周期管理已被记录在案，并已影响到研究软件领域。后续项目CARPe- diem将以可持续的运营模式为国际社会提供openCARP模拟器作为虚拟研究环境，并进一步优化以巩固这一电子研究技术。CARPe-diem有四个目标：i）推进、巩固和提供openCARP心脏电生理模拟器，作为国家和国际科学界的虚拟和协作研究环境，以支持跨机构的研究。ii）通过优化可用性、量身定制的培训和有针对性的传播，进一步提高openCARP在社区中的采用和融合。iii）通过互动的在线基础设施、积极的社区管理和集中的个人活动，加强openCARP用户和开发者社区。iv）进一步提高openCARP虚拟研究环境长期运行的可持续性并减少维护工作。为了实现这些目标，研究人员和信息基础设施专家将密切合作，在以下三个领域实施措施：i）可用性（例如，根据用户需要扩展功能、扩展文档、优化用户界面、支持附加平台），ii）用户社区（例如，非监督培训、用户会议、积极的社区管理），以及iii）可持续性（例如，扩展测试套件、共享openCARP实验的平台、适应新技术、持续基准测试）。总之，CARPe- diem将为心脏研究界提供高质量的openCARP电子研究基础设施，并根据开放科学原则进一步加强其支持和培训，以促进知识交流并支持高质量的研究。

openCARP is an e-Research Technology for modeling and simulation of cardiac electrophysiology. This e-Research infrastructure was made freely and openly available as part of the SuLMaSS project and has been very well received by the international community, which now includes several hundred users. Through this convergence process, openCARP is the most widely used simulation software for cardiac electrophysiology. openCARP is supported by technical infrastructure for testing, versioning, archiving, and referencing developed and tested during SuLMaSS. The openCARP software lifecycle management has been documented and has already impacted the field of research software. The follow-up project CARPe- diem will provide the openCARP simulator as a virtual research environment for the international community in sustainable operation mode and further optimize it to consolidate this e-Research Technology. CARPe-diem has four goals: i) Advance, consolidate, and provide the openCARP cardiac electrophysiology simulator as a virtual and collaborative research environment to the national and international scientific community to support research also across institutions. ii) Further increase adoption of openCARP and convergence in the community through optimized usability, tailored training and targeted dissemination. iii) Strengthen the openCARP user and developer community through interactive online infrastructure, active community management and focused in person events. iv) Further increase sustainability and reduce maintenance effort for long-term operation of the openCARP virtual research environment. To achieve these goals, measures in the following three areas will be implemented in close collaboration between researchers and information infrastructure experts: i) usability (e.g., extending functionality according to user needs, expanding documentation, optimizing user interfaces, supporting additional platforms), ii) user community (e.g., non-supervised training, user meetings, active community management), and iii) sustainability (e.g., expansion of the test suite, platform for sharing openCARP experiments, adaptation to new technologies, continuous benchmarking). In summary, CARPe- diem will provide the cardiac research community with the high-quality openCARP e-Research Infrastructure and further enhance it based on the open science principles along with support and training to facilitate knowledge exchange and support high quality research.