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standards and best practice recommendations for software repositories
05.11.2021
Program
| # | Agenda Item |
|---|---|
| 1 | Welcome by RDA-SE / RDA-DK |
| 2 | Best practices for descriptive metadata for repository discovery Speaker: Allyson Lister, University of Oxford, RDA/Force11 FAIRsharing WG |
| 3 | Research Software in a scholarly ecosystem Speaker: Morane Gruenpeter, Inria |
| 4 | The SWHID : Software Heritage identifier to reference and cite code Speaker: Malin Sandström, INCF |
| 5 | Thanks and concluding remarks |
Choosing the right repository for your data or software is hard. The RDA working group FAIRsharing Registry: Connecting data policies, standards and databases RDA WG is working on providing users with recommendations on how to discover, select and use resources, and producers to make their resource more discoverable and cited. Since software has some special properties we are trying in the webinar to connect the work of the FAIRsharing WG to the FAIR for Research software WG to start a discussion on what has been and needs to be done in regards to sharing and reusing software. We will also take a look at how you can give your software a persistent identifier that lives up to the needs of software seen as a living digital object.
Speakers:
Allyson is the Content and Community Coordinator for FAIRsharing, which is based at the Oxford e-Research Centre within University of Oxford. She received a PhD in Computer Science, specialising in semantic data integration, from Newcastle University. Past work includes UniProtKB at the European Bioinformatics Institute, a Research Associate at Newcastle University, and various short-term ontology development projects. She has contributed to a number of community standard formats and ontologies across a number of research disciplines including systems biology, biomedicine, software, and FAIR skills.
Morane is a software engineer and metadata specialist on the Software Heritage team at the Inria research center, Paris, France. She has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University Pierre et Marie Curie. She is co-chair of the joint RDA, FORCE11 & ReSA: FAIR for Research Software Working group (FAIR4RS WG) and an active member of several working groups for Open Science and digital preservation, including: the RDA’s Software Source Code Interest Group (SSC IG), the FORCE11’s Software Citation Implementation Working Group (SCI WG) and the WikiData for Digital Preservation initiative (WikiDigi). Morane contributes to the FAIRsFAIR project where she leads the activities about FAIR software.
Malin Sandström is the Community Engagement officer for the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF). The mission of INCF is to help make neuroscience FAIR and move it towards an open, citable ecosystem. Malin has a PhD in computational neuroscience – she did computational modelling of the olfactory system – and a MSc in engineering physics with biophysics. She works with the INCF working groups, who are mainly software tool developers and maintainers, and is engaged in the Nordic and European RSE community. She is interested in reproducibility, interoperability and reuse of scientific outputs, including software.
FAIR research software
30.08.2021
Program
| # | Duration | Agenda Item |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 minutes | Introduction (RDA-SE / RDA-DK) - organisational perspective |
| 2 | 5 minutes | What does FAIR for research software mean and what is the difference to FAIR research data Speaker: Leyla Jael Garcia-Castro, FAIR4RS WG |
| 3 | 20 minutes | Nordic perspective Speakers: Malin Sandström, INCF and Radovan Bast, CodeRefinery |
| 4 | 15 minutes | Q&A |
| 10 minutes | Break | |
| 5 | 20 minutes | Outputs FAIR4RS WG Speakers: Leyla Jael Garcia-Castro and Carlos Martinez Ortiz, FAIR4RS WG |
| 6 | 15 minutes | Q&A |
| 7 | 20 minutes | Open discussion with prepared questions |
| 8 | 10 minutes | Thanks and concluding remarks |
The FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS) working group will be jointly convened as an RDA Working Group, FORCE11 Working Group, and a Research Software Alliance (ReSA) Taskforce, in recognition of the importance of this work for the advancement of the research sector. They invite you to participate to work on community-endorsed FAIR principles for research software and encourage their adoption. There are multiple ways to get involved, from receiving news, to co-writing, presenting outputs and leading your own events related to #FAIR4RS.
Speakers:
Leyla Jael Garcia Castro is currently working as team leader for the Semantic Retrieval research team, part of the Knowledge Management Group, at ZB MED Information Centre for life sciences. Her team mainly works on literature-based information retrieval, recommendation systems, and ontology/embeddings-based search and categorization. She is a Computer Scientist interested in semantic web, linked data, data science, open science and education. She is currently involved in community projects aiming to make FAIR a reality not only for data but also for software and training materials. She has worked on software development and data integration, semantic web (mostly on named entity recognition and its linked data applications), project coordination, scientific events organization and chairing, and community-based projects (e.g., Bioschemas and BioJS). She has also worked as a university lecturer on software development and information systems.
Carlos Martinez Ortiz
. His main focus is on software sustainability, open science and FAIR research software. He is part of the NL-RSE core team. Previously, he has worked as a research software engineer in diverse projects in digital humanities and life sciences, developing expertise in natural language processing, linked open data and software sustainability. Carlos obtained his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Exeter.
Radovan Bast is managing the CodeRefinery project which
provides training events for students, researchers, and staff from all
disciplines and national e-infrastructure partners to advance FAIRness of
software management and development practices so that research groups can
better collaboratively develop, review, discuss, test, share, and reuse their
codes. He is part of the Nordic research software engineers community.
Malin Sandström is the Community Engagement officer for the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF). The mission of INCF is to help make neuroscience FAIR and move it towards an open, citable ecosystem. Malin has a PhD in computational neuroscience – she did computational modelling of the olfactory system – and a MSc in engineering physics with biophysics. She works with the INCF working groups, who are mainly software tool developers and maintainers, and is engaged in the Nordic and European RSE community. She is interested in reproducibility, interoperability and reuse of scientific outputs, including software.
