Tech Talk: Software as a critical research output
ARDC (built from ANDS, Nectar, and RDS) and RDS nodes QCIF, Intersect, NCI, TPAC, VICNode and Pawsey have joined forces to organise a monthly Tech Talk virtual and face-to-face meeting. The Tech Talks are a monthly community gathering to showcase uses and discuss the technical side of Australia's research infrastructure.
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May 2019 topic: Software as a critical research output
The importance of software as a fundamental foundation to leading-edge research is being recognised internationally. Software is seen as a key part of facilitating trusted, reproducible research outputs and open science, and as a first class research output. A software focus is appearing alongside research data management approaches in a growing number of initiatives nationally, and internationally. For example, software initiatives include Force11 software citation implementation Working Group, Sustainable Research Software Institutes in US and UK, and Research Software Engineers Associations in several countries, including Australia.
Speakers:
- Dr Karthik Ram, University of California, Berkeley Institute for Data Science, rOpenSci, URSSI. Karthik Ram is a senior research data scientist at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science at the University of California, Berkeley, research faculty at the Berkeley Initiative for Global Change Biology, co-founder and director of rOpenSci, and the lead of the US Research Software Institute conceptualisation.
- Dr Ian Thomas, Research Software Developer, RMIT University. Ian Thomas is a research software developer, Research Capability RMIT. He has worked in data curation for output of high-performance computing systems, microscopy data for materials, and screen media objects (film and television). His current work is in graph-based data analytics, containerised research workflows and in cloud-based platforms in support of eResearch applications.