The document discusses the foundations of digital research and software sustainability. It promotes practices like developing reusable, reproducible software and careers in software. It also addresses issues like skills and training, recognition for software, and ensuring software is accessible, open, and its "correctness" can be assured. The document proposes a 5-star rating system for software quality and sustainability.

1. The Foundations of
Digital Research www.software.ac.uk
Software Sustainability Institute
N.ChueHong@software.ac.uk
Neil Chue Hong (@npch)
Re- Re-usable
search Re-producible
www.software.ac.uk/blog/
Software Careers 2012-11-09-craftsperson-and-scholar
software.ac.uk/blog/2012-08-16-what-research-
software-community-and-why-should-you-care
Software Recognition / www.software.ac.uk/blog/2011-05-02-
Reward publish-or-be-damned-alternative-
impact-manifesto-research-software
www.software.ac.uk/
software-evaluation-guide
Software Skills and Capability resources/guides
software-carpentry
training
slideshare.net/npch/the-
Software Sustainability Institute
foundations-of-digital-research

2. Isn’t software
just data?
http://beyond-impact.org/?p=175
• Journal of Open Research Software
• http://openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/
• Role of Repositories
• http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/5905
• Publication for Discovery
• JISC-funded Software Hub project
And we haven’t talked
about authorship yet…

3. 5 Stars of Software?
www.software.ac.uk
• Do we need a 5 stars for software?
 Existence – there is accurate
metadata that defines the software
 Availability – you can access and run
the software
 Openness – the software has an
open permissible license
 Linked – the related data,
dependencies and papers are c.f.
5 Stars of Linked Data
indicated (Berners-Lee)
 Assured – the software provides 5 Stars of Online Journals
(Shotton)
ways of assuring its “correctness”
Software Sustainability Institute