First Workshop on Maintainable Software Practices in e-Science

The 1st Workshop on Maintainable Software Practices in e-Science, co-located with the 8th IEEE International Conference on eScience, provides a dedicated forum for the research community to discuss new research, experiences and best practice in developing and maintaining software within an e-Science context.

The workshop will focus on the issues relating to the development and maintenance of software that can endure past the limited periods of defined project durations and project funding, and will go beyond software engineering best practice to address aspects of cultural, organisational and policy change.

Submissions are being invited of either short (4 pages) position/experiences abstracts, or full (8 pages) research papers featuring original, unpublished work.

Topics of interest include:

software engineering and software product management best practice as applied to e-Science and computational science;
community development, collaborative development, and widening adoption;
licensing, funding, and business models for eScience and research software;
managing governance and organisational change during the software lifecycle;
measuring and analysing the impact of software and software processes;
software attribution, citation, and credit;
interaction between researchers, developers and stakeholders;
transferable software practices from industry.

See the workshop website at http://software.ac.uk/maintainable-software-practice-workshop for more information.

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SoundSoftware 2014: Videos now available!

The SoundSoftware 2014 workshop, our third annual workshop on software and data in audio and music research, was just as enjoyable as the previous two. Because so much research in this field ends up being expressed through software, a software workshop turns out to be all about the means by which research becomes useful and relevant to people other than the original researchers—fertile ground for interesting and thought-provoking talks.

The workshop videos are now available online at http://soundsoftware.ac.uk/soundsoftware2014, so if you weren't able to make it in person, catch up here!

Our third annual one-day workshop on Software and Data for Audio and Music Research takes place on the 8th of July 2014 at Queen Mary, University of London. The workshop includes talks on issues such as robust software development for audio and music research, reproducible research in general, management of research data, and open access. Read more here, clear your calendar, and register now!