Code for Thought

This episode takes us to Chicago, the host for the first ever conference of Research Software Engineering (RSE) in the US https://us-rse.org/usrse23/  . The conference was organised by the US RSE association https://us-rse.org  and was sold out. In this report I'll talk to a number of participants, presenters and organisers. 
In order of appearance:

• Mary Anne Leung  Founder and President of the Sustainable Horizon's Institute https://shinstitute.org 
• Joseph Tuccillo from Oak Ridge National Laboratory https://www.ornl.gov 
• Geoffrey Lentner from Purdue University https://www.purdue.edu 
• Leah Wasser founder and director of pyOpenSci https://www.pyopensci.org 
• Daniel S. Katz US RSE association co-founder and board member https://danielskatz.org 
• Ian Cosden US RSE association co-founder and board member https://researchcomputing.princeton.edu/about/people-directory/ian-cosden 
• Sandra Gesing executive director http://sandra-gesing.com of the US RSE assoc. and Julia Damerow, member of the steering committee  

Other links

• https://www.software.ac.uk Software Sustainability Institute, its director Neil Chue Hong gave the second keynote at the conference
• https://data.agu.org/notebooks-now/ Notebooks Now! initiative by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) https://www.agu.org 
• Music excerpts from the Chris Green Quartet, Chicago Jazz Festival 2016 - with kind permission https://chrisgreenequartet.bandcamp.com 

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Die Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur - NFDI - hat die grosse Aufgabe Forschungsprojekte, deren Daten und Anwendungen miteinander zu vernetzen. Der Verein wird geleitet von Prof. Dr. York Sure-Vetter, mit dem ich über die Aufgaben und Herausforderungen des NFDI spreche.

Links

• https://www.nfdi.de/ Das Hauptportal des NFDI
• https://www.nfdi.de/cordi-2023 Die erste Konferenz - CoRDI 2023 - ausgetragen im September 2023
• Auf Mastodon: @[email protected] 
• https://twitter.com/NFDI_de Auf Twitter (Verzeihung X) gibt es sie auch

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My guests for this episode are Marie Piraud and Peter Steinbach from the Helmholtz Association in Germany. Helmholtz is the largest research association in Germany and has created a unit around all things AI and machine learning recently. Marie and Peter talk about their contributions and how AI/ML can help in research and science. 

Links

• https://www.helmholtz.ai Helmholtz AI
• https://www.helmholtz-munich.de/en/computational-health-center Helmholtz Centre in Munich (Marie)
• https://www.hzdr.de/ Helmholtz Centre Dresden-Rossendorf (Peter)

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In this first episode on the theme of diversity in tech I talk to  Cristin Merritt and Elsa Gonsiorowski from Women in HPC. 
The aim is to raise awareness and give a voice and visibility to women and other underrepresented groups in high performance computing, as Cristin and Elsa explain during our conversation. 

Links:

• https://womeninhpc.org The main website for Women in HPC
• https://n8cir.org.uk/news/diversity-checklist/ A proposed checklist for recruitment re diversity and inclusion from N8 (UK)
• https://sc23.supercomputing.org Women in HPC will be at SC23 the supercomputing conference in Denver/US in Nov '23
• Follow Women in HPC on
  • https://twitter.com/women_in_hpc 
  • https://www.linkedin.com/company/women-in-hpc/ 
• Women in HPC have a jobs board on 
  • https://womeninhpc.org/community/jobs

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In dieser Sonderausgabe berichte ich von der Unkonferenz des deutschen RSE Vereins, die zwischen dem 26. und 28. September in Jena stattfand. 

Ca 60 Teilnehmer*innen trafen sich, um über Themen zu diskutieren, die sie in ihrem Alltag bewegen. Im Rahmen dieser Veranstaltung traf ich mich mit mehreren Organisatoren und Teilnehmern um über ihre Eindrücke und Beiträge zu sprechen.

• https://un-derse23.sciencesconf.org Der link zur Veranstaltung
• https://theconversation.com/re-designing-the-conference-46894 Ein Artikel aus dem Jahr 2015 zum Thema Unkonferenz (Englisch)
• https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-05155-0 Das Buch das in der Folge erwähnt wurde: Agile the good, the hype and the ugly von Bertrand Meyer. 
• https://project.software-metadata.pub/index.html Helmholtz Hermes Projekt
• https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/index.html The Turing Way - vom Alan Turing Institut in London, UK
• https://www.dfg.de Webseite der deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft

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In this second report on research software archives and directories I am talking to Jason Maassen from the eScience Centre in the Netherlands and Christian Meessen from the Helmholtz Association in Germany. 

The eScience Centre developed the Research Software Directory (RSD) to show the impact software has on research. Researchers who code can register their software with the directory from all over the work. 
Helmholtz has adopted the RSD platform to produce a Helmholtz specific version and use that to monitor and track development from within the various research centres within Helmholtz.

Here some links:

• https://research-software-directory.org/ The portal to the RSD from the eScience Centre in NL
• https://www.esciencecenter.nl  The eScience Centre 
• https://helmholtz.software The RSD Helmholtz site

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The HiddenRef https://hidden-ref.org in the UK is an initiative to push for considering a wider range of research outputs than publications, e.g. software and data. The members of the initiative organised an event on 21 September 2023 to bring together academic institutions, funders and publishers. The aim is to increase the amount of non-publication output for the next research assessment in the UK in 2028. 

• https://hidden-ref.org/festival-of-hidden-ref/ The HiddenREF festival page

In this episode I spoke to a number of participants and presenters. In order of appearance;

• James Baker, director of digital humanities at Southampton University
• Steven Hill, director of research at Research England
• Guillaume Wright, publisher at https://f1000.com F1000
• Tony Roche HiddenRef committee member and director at https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com Emerald publishing
• Emma Karoume, community manager at the https://www.turing.ac.uk Alan Turing Institute in London
• Simon Hettrick, chair of the https://hidden-ref.org HiddenRef and deputy directory of the Software Sustainability Institute https://www.software.ac.uk

This episode is sponsored by F1000.

F1000, part of Taylor & Francis Group, is an scholarly open research publisher offering a unique publication model designed to ensure all research outputs are as accessible, usable and reusable as possible, thus accelerating the impact of that research. F1000 works in partnership with many research funders, institutions and societies across the globe, including the European Commission, Wellcome, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the American Nuclear Society, to develop bespoke publishing solutions to help them to achieve their open research ambitions. F1000 also has its own portfolio of open research publishing venues available to researchers from across all disciplines who wish to publish all research outputs openly, including F1000Research, Routledge Open Research, Open Research Africa and Health Open Research. Find out more at https://f1000.com.

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Julian arbeitet an der Universität Swansea in Wales in Grossbritannien. Zusammen mit Kollegen bemüht er sich darum, Ergebnisse von Simulationen und Berechnungen reproduzierbar zu machen. Erstaunlicherweise, sind wenige der Papers und Ergebnisse auch heute noch reproduzierbar und Julian und das Team bemühen sich darum das zu ändern. 

In unserem Gespräch geht es auch ein wenig um den Physik Zusammenhang - der sogenannten Quantenchromodynamik (QCD).

Dazu ein paar Einführungslinks

• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantenchromodynamik Quantenchromodynamik (QCD)
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gittereichtheorie Gittereichtheorie
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantenfeldtheorie Quantenfeldtheorie

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And it's this time of the year again, when the RSE communities meet for their annual gathering. The UK RSE Society held its annual conference in the Welsh city of Swansea this year. And in this episode you'll hear from a range of different participants and presenters. Here they are in the following order

• Jamie Quinn (University College London and trustee of the Society until this year) https://www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-research-computing/advanced-research-computing-centre 
• Gael Varoquaux from Inria and Scikit-learn in France https://scikit-learn.org/stable/ 
• Neil Chue Hong from the Software Sustainability Institute https://www.software.ac.uk 
• Sarah Gibson from https://2i2c.org 
• Hannah Williams from the UK Health Security Agency https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk 
• Rich Pitts from Oracle Research https://www.oracle.com/uk/research/ 
• Milo Thurnston from https://fairsharing.org 
• Becky Smith from the organising committee https://rsecon23.society-rse.org/conference-committee/ 

Presentations have been streamed and should be accessible soon.

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I had the great pleasure to meet with Morane Gruenpeter and Benoît Chauvet from Software Heritage in Paris in 2023. Software Heritage aims to help preserve and archive software, not only for research but also for the private sector. 

Unlike research software directories (from whom we will hear later this season), Software Heritage archives the actual code. Morane and Benoit take us through what's involved in that. 

Links:

• https://www.softwareheritage.org/ the main Software Heritage portal
• https://archive.softwareheritage.org/ Link to the actual archive
• https://archive.softwareheritage.org/save/ Save code now feature
• https://archive.softwareheritage.org/add-forge/request/create/ Add forge now feature
• https://www.softwareheritage.org/2023/08/08/swh-technical-roadmap-priorities/ Presentation of the 2023 technical roadmap
• https://archive.softwareheritage.org/?guided_tour=0&guided_tour_next=https://archive.softwareheritage.org/add-forge/request/create/ Interactive guided tour
• https://www.softwareheritage.org/howto-archive-and-reference-your-code/ How to archive and reference Research Software
• https://docs.softwareheritage.org/ Documentation
  
  
  

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