Software Quality Assurance at Helmholtz - 6. Helmholtz Research Software Forum

12 Feb 2025, 12:00 → 13 Feb 2025, 12:00 Europe/Berlin

Haus 14.6U / Raum 241 (Jülich)

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. 

On the first day of the meeting, the 6th iteration of the Forum will feature an in-depth introduction of the "Helmholtz Quality Indicator for Software Products" and its practical implementation at the Centers.

On the second day several Helmholtz software project are featured and we have a discussion on future topics of the Task Group on Research Software.

The event will take place on-site in Jülich and will be conducted in English. 

Previous Helmholtz Open Science Fora on Research Software event were held in May 2021, April 2022, November 2022, May 2023, and February 2024.

Wednesday 12 February

12:00 → 12:45 Arrival / Welcome Snack

12:45 → 13:00 Opening

12:45 Welcome

Speakers: Christoph Bruch (Helmholtz Open Science Office), Lea Maria Ferguson (Helmholtz Association, Helmholtz Open Science Office), Michael Denker (INM-10, Forschungszentrum Jülich)

13:00 → 14:30 Session 1: Software Indicator I

13:00 Introduction of quality indicator for research software publications

The Helmholtz Association is adding a new indicator for research data and research software publications to its reporting. A working group with members from all Helmholtz centers has been working on defining this new indicator and the Helmholtz general assembly has approved their suggestion in its fall meeting of 2024. In this talk the indicator as well as the ideas behind it and the methods to collect the information are introduced. The indicator is based on a maturity model looking at various aspects of a research software publication, thus also providing value to the authors of the software and research software researchers as it makes multiple aspects of research software as a scientific publication itself visible.

Speakers: Guido Juckeland, Guido Juckeland (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

2025-02_12_Helmholtz-RS-Forum.pdf

13:30 Role of Helmholtz Research Software Directory in collection information for the Quality Indicator for research software publications

The Helmholtz Research Software Directory (Helmholtz RSD) has been established as a central marketplace for research software within the Helmholtz Association, fostering visibility and reuse of software assets. The talk will provide an overview of the current status of the Helmholtz RSD, highlight key achievements from the past year. We will introduce the newly developed License Consultation service, that is designed to establish a framework for tailored license consultation processes at individual Helmholtz Centres. Additionally, we will present advancements in the federation of individual RSD instances. In this context, we will provide insight into the associated project nfdi.software and its role in the RSD ecosystem. Lastly, we will outline the contribution of the RSD to the Helmholtz Software Indicator, indicating potential use cases that will aid software developers in assessing their research software for the upcoming PoF period.

Speaker: Guido Juckeland (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

14:00 Feedback from the Centers

Speaker: Participants

14:30 → 15:00 Break 1

15:00 → 16:30 Session 2: Software Indicator II

15:00 Hands-on: Looking at Tools to Support the Indicator (and their Roadmaps)

Speaker: Guido Juckeland (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

15:45 Hands-on: Looking at Documentation to Support the Indicator

Speaker: Guido Juckeland (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

16:30 → 17:15 Transfer to hotel

17:15 → 18:00 Check-in at hotel

18:00 → 20:00 Dinner (self-pay)

Thursday 13 February

09:00 → 10:30 Session 3: Software Projects

09:00 JuRSE: The RSE Community of Practice at FZJ

This talk will update the attendees on the progress of the JuRSE (Juelich Research Software Engineering) community of practice at FZJ and will go into detail about the initiatives that we are providing that are available to everyone who codes and develops software in their academic role.

Speaker: Claire Wyatt (FZJ)

RS Forum 13 02 2025 final.pdf

09:30 Updates from the Joint Lab HiRSE: Helmholtz Information - Research Software Engineering

Speakers: René Caspart (KIT), Robert Speck (FZJ)

HiRSE - HGF_OS_FZJ_II.pdf

10:00 European Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence - eVerse

Speakers: Guido Juckeland (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Guido Juckeland

EVERSE+FutuRSI.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Break 2

11:00 → 12:00 Session 4: Outlook and Strategy

Open conversation on future activities of the Task Group Research Software