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This month’s news includes:
Community news - this month in research software Vive la différence and DiveRSE Research software community mapping Research Software Funders Forum FAIR4RS update ReSA Steering Committee member profile: Mark Leggott Opportunities to get involved with community initiatives Community events & resources
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Community News
Recognition of research software:
The Digital Research Alliance of Canada has released a report on the current state of research software in Canada, which describes research software as an integral, yet nascent, component of research workflows. An Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) report on the scale and distribution of software engineering or development capability within research organisations reveals 6000+ people develop and maintain vital research software for Australian research
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Vive la différence and DiveRSE
Vive la différence - research software engineers is a Lorentz Center workshop (in Leiden, Netherlands and virtual) to consider how research software engineering could be reframed to place diversity, equity, and inclusion as a central organizing principle in research software.
ReSA is delighted to announce support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Ford Foundation for the workshop, augmenting support funding for Lorentz Center workshops from Leiden University and several Dutch national funding agencies (Dutch Research Council (NWO) divisions). We are very grateful for this support of this important conversation. The workshop is limited to 55 participants, but there are a couple of spots left; contact ReSA if interested.
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| Research software community mapping |
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ReSA has been updating its previous mapping of the research software community with assistance from contractors in Africa, Asia and Latin America. A wide range of research software organisations and programs exist internationally to address the varied challenges in software productivity, quality, reproducibility, and sustainability. ReSA’s mission is to bring these research software communities together to collaborate on the advancement of the research software ecosystem.
The first output of this work is a list of research software funders in a range of geographic regions. Please add information on other funders that you’re aware of, so we can work together to continue to build understanding of the research software funding landscape. Thanks to Wellcome Trust for supporting this initiatives, and the contributors: Batool Almarzouq, Jyoti Bhogal, Abdullah Shams Bin Tariq, Renato Augusto Corrêa dos Santos, Stephannie Jimenez Gacha, Caleb Kibet, Narcisse Mbunzama, Anthony Oko-Isu, Arslan Sheikh, Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal, Jessica Upani, and Nicolás Wolovick.
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| Research Software Funders Forum |
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The Research Software Funders Forum – a collaboration of funding organisations committed to supporting research software, and those who develop it, as fundamental and vital to research – meets monthly to share practices and consider how to address common challenges. The Research Software Funders Forum is convened by ReSA and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 30 funding organisations are currently participating in the Funders Forum. Funders Forum members include governmental, philanthropic, and industry organisations from around the world. Currently, participants represent organisations from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom, and USA.
Funders Forum members share updates on sector news, provide overviews of funding strategies, and discuss topics of interest. Thanks to Funders Forum members’ informative, collaborative, and engaging discussion, the Funders Forum is now organising working groups to further explore and achieve shared goals. Many thanks to the research software funding community for its participation and support of the forum. For further information, please refer to the Terms of Reference or contact ReSA.
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| FAIR4RS update |
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The FAIR4RS Working Group has released version 1.0 of the FAIR Principles for Research Software (FAIR4RS Principles). This will be released as an RDA recommendation after community review ends on 21 April, 2022. Members of the community are able to provide comments during this community review period.
Chue Hong, N. P., Katz, D. S., Barker, M., Lamprecht, A-L, Martinez, C., Psomopoulos, F. E., Harrow, J., Castro, L. J., Gruenpeter, M., Martinez, P. A., Honeyman, T., et al. (2022). FAIR Principles for Research Software version 1.0. (FAIR4RS Principles v1.0). Research Data Alliance. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15497/RDA00068
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ReSA Steering Committee member profile
Mark Leggott is the Director, International Relations for the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (The Alliance), which is a national organisation mandated with “integrating, championing and funding the infrastructure and activities required for advanced research computing (ARC), research data management and research software” in Canada. In that position Mark has two primary roles: launching an international relations framework, including the development of partnerships; and researching emerging best practices, standards and technologies that may be of interest to the Alliance’s long-term strategy. The Alliance is a founding member of ReSA, and Mark serves on ReSA’s Steering Committee. Previous to his role with the Alliance, Mark was the Executive Director of Research Data Canada, and served as a senior administrator for two Canadian universities. Mark was also the founder of the open source Islandora project, which is used globally as a digital asset management system, and the Islandora service company discoverygarden Inc. Mark has been a champion of open source and open data for most of his career, and is frequently engaged as a peer reviewer for international organizations that fund digital research infrastructure.
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| Opportunities to get involved with community initiatives |
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Join the RSE Asia Association as a community member! People from all regions of the globe are welcome to join this free community, irrespective of whether they are located in Asia.
Survey of Mentorship among People Who Develop Software. If you develop software in your work then contribute to this study of the role that mentorship plays in the personal and professional development of people like yourself. Closes 31 March.
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| Community events and resources |
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Launching the Visible Research Software Interest Group, 29 March 2022. Online. The first event of this new Australasian community. Software Sustainability Institute Collaborations Workshop 2022 (CW22), 4-7 April 2022. Online. Themes of the workshop are Code Review, Ethics, Hybrid Working, and Software Sustainability. Vive la différence - research software engineers, 19-22 April 2022. Hybrid, Leiden, the Netherlands. An online version is running from late March until the end of April. US-RSE Association Community building workshop, 26-27 April 2022, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. SE4Science’22 (International Workshop on Software Engineering for Computational Science), held in conjunction with International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), 21-23 June 2022. Hybrid, London, UK.
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To suggest items for inclusion in ReSA News, please contact info@researchsoft.org.
ReSA's vision is that research software and those who develop and maintain it are recognised and valued as fundamental and vital to research worldwide.The ReSA mission is to bring research software communities together to collaborate on the advancement of the research software ecosystem. ReSA is a fiscally sponsored project of Code for Science and Society.
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