Talk by Ian Gent at Software Credit Workshop, London, October 19, 2015

1. Ian Gent
University of St Andrews
http://ian.gent
Beyond Citation:
Reuse, Repurposing and
Reproducibility

2. Possibly the worst talk to have
first!
• Looking beyond “just” getting credit for software

3. Collaborators
• University of St Andrews
• Ian Gent, John McDermott, Charles Wu, Simon Dobson
• STFC
• Catherine Jones, Brian Matthews, Paulina Lach, Steven
Lamerton, Alan Kyffin
• Univ. of Leicester
• Jonathan Tedds
• Funded by Jisc Research Data Spring

4. Software Citation Guidelines
http://tinyurl.com/19Oct2015

5. Software Citation Guidelines
• Talks about some general issues
– What do you want to identify?
Product? Version? Variant?
Instance?
• And some specific ones
– What to put in fields in Datacite
Metadata fields
– Discoverability
http://tinyurl.com/19Oct2015

6. One Button Citation
• We’ll hear about some of the ways to get easy DOIs
– E.g. Github/Zenodo, Figshare
• We want to push beyond this
– Not just citation but using the software you
find and cite
• For example, the “Play Button”
– A one button Play Button
http://tinyurl.com/19Oct2015

7. From Github URL…

8. … to Play Button

9. Reuse
• Research code can be used much more widely
• Typical use cases:
– Enable easy installation
– Enable easy teaching at a workshop
– Enable other researchers to reuse it

10. Repurposing
• Repurposing
– Building on the shoulders of giants
– That PhD student who wrote amazing code
once in a different area can make your
work so much better
• Typical use cases:
– Software continuity in a research group
– Comparison with other research group’s
software

11. Reproducibility
• Typical use cases:
– How does my code compare with code
from that 20 year old paper I just found?

12. Towards a Service
• We want to build tools/services which will make all
these things part of people’s daily working life
• Overlaps with lots of other things, e.g. github,
vagrant, virtualbox, travis, docker…
– want to build on shoulders of giants
ourselves
http://tinyurl.com/19Oct2015