The Software Preservation Webinar Series provides a survey of software preservation contexts. Each episode explores a different software preservation context by providing an overview, discussion with guest speakers (specialists in digital preservation, software studies, scholarly communication, open source software and more) and open discussion with attendees.
The webinar series is jointly hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition and the Software Preservation Network.
EPISODE 4: Software in Digital/Scholarly Communications
This episode provides an overview of scholarly communication practices as they relate to software preservation and citation within contemporary scholarly research methods. Attention is paid to evolving and changing practices in a variety of institutional settings (e.g. post-secondary institutions, GLAMs, nonprofits), and to the need for disciplinary responsiveness in publication and citation practices.
Research Lead and Facilitator:
Guests:
- James Howison (University of Texas at Austin)
- Veronica Ikeshoji-Orlati (Vanderbilt University)
- Neil Chue Hong (Software Sustinability Institute)
Discussion Questions:
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Where (and when) can software preservation discussions enter into the research process? Especially in terms of disciplines such as the humanities where issues of software creation, preservation, and emulation are in the initial stages of development.
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What role can training take in order to facilitate scholarly communication practices within and beyond institutional boundaries? E.g. outward facing blogs as well as internal communication re. Best practices, workflows etc.
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What teams/groups should be involved in discussions of software in digital/scholarly communications? How can SPN or other collectives work to build strong networks?
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Where do you see software in digital/scholarly communications in the next 5 years? 10 years?
Sharing experiences and perspectives is critical to understanding the hurdles in software preservation, to imagining future use of software-dependent data, and to forming a mutual understanding of where collective action is necessary to facilitate those future uses so we hope you will join the discussion.
The webinar series is free to attend and open to all.
Watch the webinar recording
(Runtime 57 mins)
Read the Chat from the webinar: Episode 4
Supplementary Resources
Websites & Blogs
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Scholarly Communications Program: https://sloan.org/programs/digital-technology/scholarly-communication
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholarly Communications Program: https://mellon.org/programs/scholarly-communications/
- Bucknell’s Digital Scholarship Workflow: http://dsc.bucknell.edu/files/2016/08/Digital_Scholarship-Flowchart_ver3.pdf
- CiteAs: https://github.com/Impactstory/citeas-api/
- “Climategate” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy
- Developers and researchers on cross-functional teams that use digital collections: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2015/06/bl-labs-competition-winners-for-2015.html#
- FLOSS mole: https://flossmole.org/
- FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Group https://www.force11.org/group/software-citation-implementation-working-group
- Haters Gonna Hate - why you shouldn't be ashamed of releasing your code https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2016-10-06-haters-gonna-hate-why-you-shouldnt-be-ashamed-releasing-your-code
- James Howison“Peer Production” course syllabus: https://jameshowison.github.io/peer_production_course/pp_syllabus.html
- London School of Economics and Political Science. Impact Blog. “101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication: how researchers are getting to grip with the myriad new tools” http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/11/11/101-innovations-in-scholarly-communication/
- London School of Economics and Political Science. Impact Blog. Digital collections offer researchers opportunities to develop new skills and scholarly communications networks. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2017/02/02/digital-collections-offer-researchers-opportunities-to-develop-new-skills-and-scholarly-communications-networks/
- Scholarly and Research Communication Vol 7 No. 2/3 (2016) AND CfP for Theme: The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Algorithms, Bots, Usage Data, Big Data, Visualization, and AI (Questions? Contact Monique Sherrett This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
- Software Sustainability Institute. “How to Describe and Cite Software.” https://www.software.ac.uk/how-cite-and-describe-software
- 4OSS recommendations: Recommendations to encourage best practices in research software from the Open Source Software Working Group, supported by ELIXIR, SSI and the Netherlands eScience Center: https://softdev4research.github.io/recommendations/
- University of Toronto Scholarly Communications Guide: https://guides.library.utoronto.ca/ScholarlyPublishing
Articles, Reports & Presentations
- Manifesto from Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 16252. Engineering Academic Software. “serving as a roadmap towards future professional software engineering for software-based research instruments and other software produced and used in an academic context. The manifesto is expressed in terms of a series of actionable “pledges” that users and developers of academic research software can take as concrete steps towards improving the environment in which that software is produced.”http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2017/7146/pdf/dagman-v006-i001-p001-16252.pdf
- Practice papers from the International Digital Curation Conference (http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/international-digital-curation-conference-idcc) are published afterwards in the IJDC: http://www.ijdc.net/
- Software as a Well-Formed Research Object, DLF 2017 Presentation https://www.slideshare.net/yasmina85/software-as-a-wellformed-research-object
- The Pathways of Research Software Preservation: An Educational and Planning Resource for Service Development
Ongoing Discussion
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