Software Sustainability InstituteWorking with research software2 nd - 4 th November 2015, Artefact Evaluation for Publication Neil Chue Hong Software Sustainability Institute ORCID: | Slides licensed under CC-BY where indicated: Supported by Project funding from Software Sustainability InstituteThe Software Sustainability Institute A national facility for cultivating better, more sustainable, research software to enable world- class research Software reaches boundaries in its development cycle that prevent improvement, growth and adoption Providing the expertise and services needed to negotiate to the next stage Developing the policy and tools to support the community developing and using research software Supported by EPSRC Grant EP/H043160/1 + EPSRC/ESRC/BBSRC grant EP/N006410/ /m9.figshare Software Policy Training Community Outreach Delivering essential software skills to researchers via CDTs, institutions & doctoral schools Helping the community to develop software that meets the needs of reliable, reproducible, and reusable research Collecting evidence on the communitys software use & sharing with stakeholders Bringing together the right people to understand and address topical issues Exploiting our platform to enable engagement, delivery & uptake Website & blog Campaigns Advice Guides Courses Workshops Fellowship Research Software Policy Training Community Consultancy 50+ projects 130+ evaluations 4 surgeries 35+ UK SWC workshops learners 80+ guides 50,000 readers 61 domain ambassadors 20+ workshops organised 740 researchers 50,000 grants analysed 150+ contributed articles 20,000 unique visitors per month 3,000 Twitter followers 300+ RSEs engaged2100 signatures 13 issues highlighted Outreach Software Sustainability InstitutePositive selection in large genomic datasets Selection at pleiotropic loci underlies disease co-occurrence in human populations. Navarro, Haley, Karosas et al. Submitted to Nature Genetics /m9.figshare Software Sustainability InstituteHapbin: fast haplotype based scans hapbin: An Efficient Program for Performing Haplotype-Based Scans for Positive Selection in Large Genomic Datasets. DOI: /molbev/msv /m9.figshare Software Sustainability InstituteJournal of Open Research Software /m9.figshare Software Sustainability InstituteWhat is good software, and how can we measure it? /m9.figshare Software Sustainability InstituteNutritional Labelling Designed to be easy to read and understand Small set of categories Traffic light indicators A framework that can be evaluated differently due to community norms Healthy heart diet vs cake /m9.figshare Software Sustainability InstituteSoftware Accreditation Framework Challenges Many measures are subjective Many metrics are costly to measure Need to encourage self- assessment Purpose Enabling improvement, versus Enabling comparison Categories Availability Usability Transferability ? Benchmark against existing software /m9.figshare Software Sustainability InstituteSoftware Management Plans A means of ensuring software is accessible and reusable throughout project and beyond A tool that complements (/implements) accreditation framework Prototype based on DMPOnline /m9.figshare