By Malcolm Illingworth, Software Consultant, Software Sustainability Institute
By Mike Jackson, Software Architect.
In May I started a consultancy project with Trung Dong Huynh, Luc Moreau and Danius Michaelides of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. As part of their research into provenance, they have developed the Southampton Provenance Tool Suite, a suite of software, libraries and services to capture, store and visualise provenance compliant with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) PROV standards. The goal of the consultancy was to develop an infrastructure, which systematically checks convertibility and round-trip…
By Steve Crouch.
On August 8th 2014, I attended the first Summer School in Experimental Methodology in Computational Research at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Run as a pilot for primarily computer scientists, it explored the latest methods and tools for enabling reproducible and recomputable research, and the aim is to build on this successful event and hold a bigger one next year.
The Institute already works with the Summer School organisers in a related project, recomputation.org. Led by Ian Gent, this project aims to allow the reproduction of scientific…
By Mike Jackson, Software Architect
The Institute are firm believers in software citation. Citing software, directly or via its associated publications, provides deserved credit for those who develop this vital research infrastructure. In this blog post I look at some ways in which research software developers are helping to promote the citation of software, by making it easier for researchers to do this. That's another thing we are firm believers in, automating the grunt work of using and developing software to free up time for research...
As part of recent open call…
The Software Sustainability Institute works with a range of projects - tackling everything from library searches to nuclear fusion.
EPCC's Andy Turner developed some JavaScript to visualise the usage of applications running on ARCHER, the UK national super-computing service. The visualisation of data in this way reminded me of how the Institute had visualised research data for a poster. I decided to spend a bit of time making Andy's scripts more general, so they could also be used to present Institute data including how much effort we've spent on consultancy, and who with, and how many researchers we've trained via Software Carpentry workshops.
At present, these scripts are prototypes and render sample data…
By Mike Jackson, Software Architect.
In August I completed an open call project with Trung Dong Huynh, Luc Moreau and Danius Michaelides of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. As part of their research into provenance, they have developed the Southampton Provenance Tool Suite, a suite of software, libraries and services to capture, store and visualise provenance compliant with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) PROV standards. I developed a test framework in Python, which tests Provenance Tool Suite toolkits and services operating…