Dr Tom Honeyman1, Dr Paula Andrea Martinez2
1Australian Research Data Commons, Sydney, Australia, 2Australian Research Data Commons, Brisbane, Australia
In 2021, the ARDC released a draft national agenda for research software, describing a framework and actions towards recognition of research software as a first-class output of research. In March of 2022 a final version of this agenda was released incorporating feedback from several hundred interested community members.
In this talk we report back on our initial actions in guidance, community building, advocacy and infrastructure as our contribution to this national agenda. In guidance we have focussed on software publishing and citation. In community building we have partnered with the Australian BioCommons and UNSW Library to form a Visible Research Software interest group. We are working across several scholarly groups to highlight the work of researcher communities building new software for other researchers, and we have joined the steering committee of Research Software Engineers Association of Australia and New Zealand to contribute to its work. For advocacy we have established awards for early career researchers building new software within specific scholarly societies, and we have established a series of awards and policy work. Finally for infrastructure we have focussed on baseline measure to better understand the scale and distribution of two critical infrastructures for research software: the soft infrastructure of the workforce of developers and maintainers, and the software itself as a form of intangible asset.
We will describe the outcomes of these activities and detail our planned activities for the first half of 2023.
Biography:
Tom Honeyman is the Research Software Program Manager. In this role he leads a rolling series of activities all working towards recognition of research software as a first-class output of research. Tom has a research background in descriptive linguistics, and has worked as a research software engineer, and in the research data archives space.