Research software is essential to modern research, but it requires ongoing human effort to sustain: to continually adapt to changes in dependencies, to fix bugs, and to add new features. Software sustainability institutes, amongst others, develop, maintain, and disseminate best practices for research software sustainability, and build community around them. These practices can both reduce the amount of effort that is needed and create an environment where the effort is appreciated and rewarded. The UK SSI is such an institute, and the US URSSI and the Australian AuSSI are planning to become institutes, and this extended abstract discusses them and the strengths and weaknesses of this approach.
@article{arxiv.2103.03690,
title = {Addressing Research Software Sustainability via Institutes},
author = {Daniel S. Katz and Jeffrey C. Carver and Neil P. Chue Hong and Sandra Gesing and Simon Hettrick and Tom Honeyman and Karthik Ram and Nicholas Weber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.03690},
year = {2021}
}
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accepted by ICSE 2021 BokSS Workshop (https://bokss.github.io/bokss2021/)