The UK Software Sustainability Institute: Phase 3

在阶段1(准备)和阶段2(部署)中，我们了解了研究软件的国家状态、其开发人员/用户、其需求，以及软件如何改变进行研究的方式。在我们的经验和专家理解的基础上，第三阶段(扩大)将侧重于创建可持续和自给自足的实践社区，以增强文化变革的能力，使更好的做法能够被广泛采用：培养分享专门知识和扶持的文化；将项目咨询、培训和提高认识结合起来，以实现和支持变革；从地方和个人行动转向国家和社区一级的影响。我们的目标是使英国研究界能够充分利用软件，并在这样做的同时，支持进行优秀的研究。我们的目标是：a)广泛采用研究最佳实践：参照研究软件商定和定义最佳实践，并使其得到广泛采用，以确保现代研究的可靠性和可重复性。促进开发模式和蓝图，以启动、培育和成熟实践社区，提高我们作为洞察研究软件问题的首选机构在英国和国际上的地位，并促进新的国际合作。b)尖端政策和指导：与利益相关者合作，创建和传播循证指导、基础设施、政策和工具。这将提高研究软件及其相关研究成果的可重用性。c)有能力的研究社区：基于可持续和可扩展的社区主导模式，推动知识的边界跨域，以保持卓越并推动创新和职业道路，以提高研究软件的认知度。支持英国研究学会的合作，并帮助其变得更具弹性和可持续性，将实现更大的社会和文化影响。D)开放的证据库：识别和生成数据集，进行分析，以提供对软件、人员和实践的重要性的洞察和证据。为了实现这些目标，我们将：1)提高认识：通过我们的研究金，授权和发展一批良好做法大使；就研究软件问题与各级利益攸关方进行接触；采用最佳做法。2)播种变化：为研究领域、技术、利益攸关方团体和英国机构建立多个可持续的实践社区(COP)；设立专家小组，委托以专题为基础的研讨会、政策研究和外联方案；例如通过RSE交流，培育和推广现有的COP；开发支持COP的工具和服务；确保广泛采用研究最佳实践。3)提供专业知识：创建区域培训中心，以继续增加供应；委托新课程；重新关注开放电话咨询；为RSE经纪公司进行可行性研究；形成一个有能力的研究社区。4)影响政策：发布新的指导和标准；与国际合作者合作，将政策付诸实践；开展研究，提高对研究软件的理解；提供尖端政策和指导，并建立一个开放的证据库。

In Phases 1 (Prepare) and 2 (Deploy) we developed an understanding of the state of the nation of research software, its developers/users, its requirements, and how software is changing the way research is conducted. Building on our experience and expert understanding, Phase 3 (Expand) will focus on the creation of sustainable and self-supporting communities of practice to empower cultural change that enables better practice to be widely adopted to: foster a culture of sharing expertise and enabling; integrate project consultancy, training and awareness raising to effect and support change; move from local and individual actions to national and community level effects. Our goal is that the UK research community be enabled to take full advantage of software and, in doing so, to support the conduct of excellent research. Our objectives are:A) Widespread adoption of research best practice: agreeing and defining best practice with reference to research software, and enabling its widespread adoption to ensure the reliability and reproducibility of modern research. Enabling development of models and blueprints for initiating, nurturing and maturing communities of practice, enhancing our status in the UK and internationally as the go-to institution for insight into research software matters and catalysing new international collaborations.B) Cutting-edge policy and guidance: collaborating with stakeholders to create and disseminate evidence-based guidance, infrastructure, policies and tools. This leads to improved reusability of research software and its associated research outputs.C) A capable research community: based on a sustainable and scalable community-led model that will push the boundaries of knowledge across domains to maintain excellence and drive innovation and career paths, to increase the recognition of research software. Supporting collaboration in the UK research society and helping it become more resilient and sustainable will achieve an increased social and cultural impact.D) An open evidence bank: identifying and generating datasets, conducting analysis to provide insight and evidence of the importance of software, people and practices. This enables costing of resources required to develop, maintain and preserve research software.To achieve these goals, we will be:1) Raising awareness: empower and develop a cohort of ambassadors for good practice through our Fellowship; outreach to stakeholders at all levels on research software issues; to deliver adoption of best practice.2) Seeding change: build multiple sustainable Communities of Practice (CoP): for research domains, for techniques, for stakeholder groups, for UK institutions; set up expert panels that commission topic-based programmes of workshops, policy studies and outreach; nurture and scale existing CoPs e.g. through RSE exchanges; develop tools and services to support CoPs; to guarantee the widespread adoption of research best practice.3) Providing expertise: create regional training hubs to continue growth of provision; commission new courses; refocus open call consultancy; conduct feasibility study for an RSE brokerage; to form a capable research community.4) Influencing policy: publish new guidance and standards; work with international collaborators to put policy into practice; conduct research that improves understanding of research software; to deliver cutting-edge policy and guidance and build an open evidence bank.