status: Recognised & Endorsed

Chair (s): Morane Gruenpeter, Neil Chue Hong, Julia Collins, Tom Honeyman

Group Email: [group_email]

Secretariat Liaison: enquiries[at]rd-alliance.org


Software source code plays a critical role in all fields of modern research, where source code is written and developed to address a variety of needs, like cleaning, processing and visualising data.

 

Software source code is a necessary component for research reproducibility and reusability. 

 

Thus software source code should be properly curated in the same way as other research inputs and outputs such as research data and paper publication. Software source code developers and organisations that sponsor software development should also be properly credited and attributed.

 

This interest group will provide a forum to discuss issues on management, sharing, discovery, archival and provenance of software source code. It will pay special attention to source code that generates research data and plays an important role in scientific publications.

 

Information about sessions held at RDA Plenary Meetings can be found on the Group Wiki.

 

Plenary participation

09
June
2023

Mastering the Art of Research Software Metadata and Metrics

Join us for an engaging event focused on mastering the art of Research Software metadata.

26
February
2022

Software Source Code - policy and incentives

The agenda will be roughly as follow:

  • Short introduction to the group and its aims (5 minutes)

26
February
2022

Software Source Code - policy and incentives

The agenda will be roughly as follow:

  • Short introduction to the group and its aims (5 minutes)

27
November
2019

FAIR principles for research software

  1. Introduction (30 minutes)

    1. What makes software different from data with respect to the application of the FAIR principles? (5 minutes)

11
January
2019

IG Software Source Code - RDA 13th Plenary Meeting

Meeting title
Research Software Source Code: why and how do we care? (Remote Access Instructions)