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The Software Sustainability Institute: Phase 2

软件可持续性研究所：第二阶段

基本信息

批准号：
EP/N006410/1
负责人：
Neil Chue Hong
金额：
$ 447.45万
依托单位：
University of Edinburgh
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2015 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FN006410%2F1
关键词：
Software Sustainability Institute Phase

项目摘要

Modern research is impossible without software. From short, thrown-together temporary scripts to solve a specific problem, through an abundance of complex spreadsheets analysing collected data, to the hundreds of software engineers and millions of lines of code behind international efforts such as the Large Hadron Collider and the Square Kilometre Array, there are few areas of research where software does not have a fundamental role. Further, this is not just research based on the "traditional" users of computational infrastructure. Data science and "big data" would not be possible without software to access, analyse, visualise, send and store that data. Software use is also not restricted to the physical sciences: the use of research software is even across all disciplines, with 68% of researchers reporting that their research would be impossible without research software. The capacity of all researchers, in the UK and worldwide, to generate new insights depends on the availability of research software and the ability of researchers to use it (better software, better research).During the next phase of the Institute, we will focus on the domains of each of the Research Councils (particularly BBSRC, EPSRC and ESRC) and help their researchers gain the most from available services to improve the sustainability, engineering, reuse, quality and recognition of software. To deliver this, the Institute's work is split into five themes: Community: bringing people together via events and networks to identify, understand and facilitate solutions for common challenges;Policy: research into the social, economic and technical drivers of the research software community, understanding its needs, and then working to enact the required changes through campaigns;Research Software: working directly with researchers who are developing software to ensure it meets the needs of reliable, reproducible and reusable research; Training: coordinating, defining, and delivering training on software development and data science skills to UK research organisations, and working to build a sustained training platform;Communications: ensuring the work of the Institute is disseminated to the widest possible audience, and working with collaborators to amplify the impact of our work.With the help of additional studies extending the work above, we will conduct research-council specific campaigns tailored to the needs of the researchers to help increase the uptake of services (not just those offered by the Institute, but those funded by the research councils) that are already available and define services which are lacking. This will not only help researchers from all research domains acquire the skills they need for modern research (helping researchers help themselves), but will also ensure that the lessons learned within one domain are transferred to the others - keeping the UK at the forefront of world-leading research.

现代研究没有软件是不可能的。从解决特定问题的简短临时脚本，到分析收集到的数据的大量复杂电子表格，再到大型强子对撞机和平方公里阵列等国际努力背后的数百名软件工程师和数百万行代码，几乎没有哪个研究领域的软件不发挥基本作用。此外，这不仅仅是基于计算基础设施的“传统”用户的研究。如果没有软件来访问、分析、可视化、发送和存储这些数据，数据科学和"大数据"就不可能实现。软件的使用也不仅限于物理科学：研究软件的使用甚至遍及所有学科，68%的研究人员报告说，如果没有研究软件，他们的研究将是不可能的。英国和世界各地的所有研究人员产生新见解的能力取决于研究软件的可用性和研究人员使用它的能力（更好的软件，更好的研究）。在研究所的下一阶段，我们将专注于每个研究委员会的领域（特别是BBSRC，EPSRC和ESRC），并帮助他们的研究人员从现有服务中获得最大收益，以提高软件的可持续性，工程，重用，质量和认可。为了实现这一目标，该研究所的工作分为五个主题：社区：通过活动和网络将人们聚集在一起，以确定，理解和促进共同挑战的解决方案;政策：研究软件社区的社会，经济和技术驱动因素，了解其需求，然后通过活动制定所需的变化;研究软件：直接与正在开发软件的研究人员合作，以确保其满足可靠，可复制和可重复使用的研究需求;培训：协调，定义并向英国研究机构提供软件开发和数据科学技能的培训，并致力于建立一个持续的培训平台;通信：确保研究所的工作传播给尽可能广泛的受众，并与合作者合作，扩大我们工作的影响。在进一步研究的帮助下，我们将根据研究人员的需求开展研究委员会特定的活动，以帮助增加服务的吸收（不仅是研究所提供的，而且是研究委员会资助的），这些服务已经提供，并确定了缺乏的服务。这不仅将帮助来自所有研究领域的研究人员获得现代研究所需的技能（帮助研究人员自助），而且还将确保在一个领域学到的经验教训转移到其他领域-使英国保持在世界领先的研究前沿。