By Simon Hettrick, Deputy Director.
How do you choose which categories are needed to represent all possible research outputs? That's the problem we're facing at the Hidden REF. Rather than solve it ourselves, we've handed the problem to the research community who have much more knowledge about the range of new categories we're going to need. In this post, I’m going to take a look at the suggestions people have made over the last couple of months. What do you think about these new categories?
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By Simon Hettrick, Deputy Director.
The Institute is delighted to announce that it will be partnering with the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) as a stakeholder.
By Software Sustainability Institute Fellow Patricia Herterich
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By Joe Parker, Research Fellow, National Biofilms Innovation Centre
By Andrew Stewart, Software Sustainability Institute Fellow
FAIR data has been on everybody’s lips for a while. Many think that FAIR software will become “the next big thing” in eScience. Reasons enough to devote a session at the National eScience Symposium to the discussion of FAIR and its meaning for research software.
By Frances Cooper, Software Sustainability Institute Fellow
By Rachael Ainsworth, Community Manager and Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute
“The near-ubiquity of software [in research] means that it is not possible to disentangle the quality of the software from the quality of the research.