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[Translate to english:] Software Managementpläne abgestimmt auf den Lebenszyklus der Software
Tuesday, 21.07.2020

We are looking for your feedback: Software Management Plans for the Life Sciences community

Software, together with data, plays an important role in research and reproducibility. In order to make it easier for researchers to manage data along its life cycle, Data Management Plans were introduced to document how data is handled from the beginning to the end of a research project. With a similar purpose but applied to research software, Software Management Plans have emerged in the last years.

A Software Development Best Practices Working Group has been established to advance the development of research software in the life sciences. Its goal is to increase the quality and sustainability of research software by producing, adopting, promoting and measuring information standards and best practices applied to the software development life cycle. Therefore they want to introduce an early version of a Software Management Plan for research in Life Science.

The Software Management Plan aims to make it easier for researchers to think in advance about the software that will be developed including not only some best practice elements but also roles and responsibilities. As research software in Life Sciences covers a broad spectrum from scripts to full-production software. We aspire to lower the barrier and therefore have developed the Software Management Plan as a series of questions to call for reflection on the development and related elements. You can learn more about it on a video from an introductory webinar delivered early in July.

 

Now your feedback is needed:

Please share your thoughts via comments on the community document we have prepared.

to the community document
to the webinar
 

Background information:

The Software Development Best Practices Working Group is part of the ELIXIR Europe Tools Platform, coordinated by Jennifer Harrow from the ELIXIR Hub. The working group is led by Mateusz Kuzak from the Netherland eScience Center, Allegra Via from the Italian National Research Council CNR, and Fotis Psomopoulos from the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas CERTH. The Software Management Plan was initiated at the BioHackathon Europe 2019  and has involved people from multiple institutes, ZB MED one of them with the participation of Leyla Jael Garcia-Castro. 

 

Learn more:

about ELIXIR Europe Tools Platform
about Biohackathon Europe 2019  
"Four simple recommendations to encourage best practices in research software"
"Towards FAIR principles for research software"
 

Are you interested in research software? You still can join us: 
Research Data Alliance (RDA): FAIR4RS – FAIR 4 Research Software working group

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Local universities cooperate closely with ZB MED as partners

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The robust, well-established partnership between ZB MED and the University of Cologne covers research, teaching and the provision of information. The Scientific Director of ZB MED also holds a professorship at the Medical Faculty.

ZB MED is sponsered by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia

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The Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia is sponsoring ZB MED.

Local universities cooperate closely with ZB MED as partners

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A joint professorship is just one example of the cooperation between ZB MED and the University of Bonn in the fields of research and teaching. ZB MED’s Bonn site is located on the Poppelsdorf campus.

ZB MED advocates Open Access

ZB MED promotes and supports open access to scientific research through the PUBLISSO portal and other services.

Local universities cooperate closely with ZB MED as partners

ZB MED’s cooperation with TH Köln focuses on providing qualifications in information and data science through joint professorships and other strategies.

ZB MED is a member of DataCite

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DataCite is an international not-for-profit organisation that offers services and know-how relating to the management, referencing and citation of research data.

ZB MED and Bielefeld University have signed a cooperation agreement

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The objective is to work together to provide complementary information services for the life sciences.

ZB MED advocates equality

ZB MED received the TOTAL E-QUALITY award in 2010, 2013, 2017 and 2021 for successfully implementing equality in its staffing structure and personnel policies.

ZB MED is a member of DAFA.

The "Deutsche Agrarfoschungsallianz" aims to improve the performance, transparency and international visibility of German agricultural research. It is a joint project of German agricultural research.

ZB MED is committed to the principles of Libraries4Future.

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