Helmholtz Open Science Forum: Research SoftwareIn-Person Event

Feb 5, 2024, 12:00 PM → Feb 6, 2024, 4:15 PM Europe/Berlin

KUBUS, Saal 1CD (04318 Leipzig)

According to the Helmholtz Open Science Policy our aim is to have research software policies in place in all the Helmholtz Centres by 2025. To support this endeavour, the Task Group Research Software of the Working Group Open Science and the Helmholtz Open Science Office offer the Helmholtz Open Science Forum: Research Software. 

The 5th iteration of the Forum will feature topics such as the Helmholtz Incubator Software Award and Open Source Policy Offices as well as presentations of current software projects from within Helmholtz. Furthermore, we will gain insight into some recently published software policies.

Previous Helmholtz Open Science Fora on Research Software event were held in May 2021, April 2022, November 2022, and May 2023.

Participation in the joint dinner?

Mon, February 5

12:00 PM Arrival / welcome snack

Opening / organizational matters

OSPO - Open Source Policy Office

Moderator: (tbd)

1 Report from Helmholtz Open Science Forum “Open Science and Transfer” (22.01.2024)

Speaker: Christoph Bruch (Helmholtz Open Science Office)

2 OSPOs at Helmholtz Centers – Overview of state of play

Speaker: Vladimir Voroshnin (HZDR)

2:30 PM Break

Updates: HIFIS, Software Award, interesting Helmholtz software

Moderator: (tbd)

3 Helmholtz Incubator Software Award

Speakers: Dr Christoph Bruch (Helmholtz Open Science Office), Lena Messerschmidt (Helmholtz Open Science Office), Dr Uwe Konrad (HZDR)

4 Vorstellung neuer Research Software Policies: HZDR decision graph on software licensing

Speaker: Dr Uwe Konrad (HZDR)

5 From here to there – a long journey to an institute’s software policy

Research software guidelines help ensure the quality of software as a basis for scientific research. On the one side, establishing policies and guidelines provides a reliable basis for developing shared processes and infrastructures, as well as standardized ways of dealing with research software. On the other side, policies are an opportunity to empower developer teams with autonomy based on clarity, direction and defined boundaries. However, the process of implementing a policy in an institute can be challenging. In this talk, we will discuss some experiences with this process in our institute.

Speaker: Dr Bernadette Fritzsch (AWI)

6 EOSC-EVERSE: Paving the way towards a European Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence

The EVERSE project aims to create a framework for research software and code excellence, collaboratively designed and championed by the research communities across five EOSC Science Clusters and national Research Software Expertise Centres, in pursuit of building a European network of Research Software Quality and setting the foundations of a future Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence.
This framework for research software excellence will incorporate aspects involving community curation, quality assessment, and best practices for research software. This collective knowledge will be captured in the Research Software Quality toolkit (RSQkit), a knowledge base to gather and curate expertise that will contribute to high-quality software and code across different disciplines. By embedding the RSQkit and services into the EOSC Science Clusters, EVERSE will demonstrate improvements in the quality of research software and maximise its reuse, leading to standardised software development practices and sustainable research software. Furthermore, we will drive recognition of software and support career progress for developers, from researchers who code to RSEs, raising their capacity to guarantee software quality.
The European network for Research Software Quality aims to cross-fertilise different research domains, act as a lobbying organisation, and raise awareness of software as a key enabler in research, with the overall ambition to accelerate research and innovation through improving the quality of research software and code.
EVERSE ultimate ambition is to contribute towards a cultural change where research software is recognized as a first-class citizen of the scientific process and the people that contribute to it are credited for their efforts.

Speaker: Dr Guido Juckeland (HZDR)

7 Support services: News from HIFIS

Speaker: Dr Tobias Huste (HZDR)

8 Support services: DLR research data / software archive

Speaker: Tobias Schlauch (DLR)

9 Support services: HiRSE_PS – state of play

Speaker: Dr René Caspart (KIT)

6:00 PM Dinner at Ratskeller (Selbstzahler)

Tue, February 6

Software

10 Helmholtz Research Software Directory

Speaker: Christian Meeßen (GFZ)

11 Heliport

Speaker: Dr Tobias Huste (HZDR)

12 Building Scalable Time Series Data Infrastructures

Speakers: David Schäfer (UFZ), Martin Abbrent (UFZ)

10:30 AM Break

Software Development (various)

13 EU Cyber Resilience Act

Speaker: Tobias Schlauch (DLR)

14 Joint Open-Software Development with Industry

Speaker: Alexander Krimm (GSI)

Closing discussion

12:30 PM Lunch (optional)

15 (OPTIONAL) BoF: Reusable CI/CD Templates and Workflows in GitLab

Many scientific software projects could benefit from automated CI/CD workflows, as they are similar in basic parameters and therefore require the same or similar CI/CD workflows. The development and maintenance of such workflows is a considerable additional effort that is unfortunately rarely undertaken. We want to jointly develop reusable CI/CD workflows for GitLab for selected standard cases and make them available to research software developers.

Agenda
- Short introduction (10 min)
- Collection of use cases (20)
- Group work: Define use cases (45)
- Wrap-up group work (15)

(UFZ RSEs will continue working on the topic even longer than scheduled. So feel free to stay longer if your train schedule allows it. )

Speakers: Lars Bilke (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ), Dr Matthias Bernt, Ronny Gey (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research), Tobias Huste (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)