EAGER: Development of software citation methodology for open source computational science

EAGER：开源计算科学软件引用方法的开发

• 批准号: 1448633
• 负责人: Louise Kellogg
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1448633&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Development; software; citation; methodology

Software plays an increasingly important role in modern research. In many physical sciences, including geophysics, astrophysics, and high energy physics, research addresses phenomena occurring on extremely small or large time and space scales where experimental and observational work are difficult. In these disciplines numerical modeling, computational simulation, and data analysis are required to advance knowledge. Many researchers and developers work individually or in teams, sometimes over years or decades, to develop specialized software for modeling and data analysis, to advance both research and education. These efforts broadly benefit communities of researchers when useful codes are shared openly, but, the lack of established means to cite software is a significant barrier to sharing source code beyond the individual developer or team. Software citation gives appropriate attribution to the developers, and promotes reproducibility of results. This project brings together an interdisciplinary team of experts in library science, computational science, science and technology studies, and a computationally-intensive physical science (geophysics) to develop and test new solutions to this problem. The team will assess the needs of the community, and will develop a software tool for citation of open source software that describes the software environment and that is embedded into workflows that software developers and researchers alike will use and find usable. Using the computational geophysics community as the community of practice this project pilots a new process for software citation that will identify and address the community's needs and remove barriers to adoption. The geophysics research community has developed extensive scientific software suites to address fundamental research on societally important problems such as earthquake systems science. By enhancing the visibility and credibility of open source software that is essential to scientific progress, the project will increase the scientific impacts of software development investments. By providing a means to credit the effort of scientists who develop software, the project will encourage the career development of talented developers and computational researchers and hence, encourage development and dissemination of better quality and better-documented software. Better quality and better documented software that can be appropriately cited helps address the challenge of reproducibility in scientific research, needed to verify and validate modeling results. Finally, improved availability and usability of software will give other scientists and researchers new tools and techniques to solve their most challenging research problems, enabling new discoveries.

软件在现代研究中发挥着越来越重要的作用。在许多物理科学中，包括地球物理学、天体物理学和高能物理学，研究解决在极小或极大的时间和空间尺度上发生的现象，而实验和观测工作在这些尺度上是困难的。 在这些学科中，需要数值建模、计算模拟和数据分析来提升知识。许多研究人员和开发人员单独或团队工作，有时需要数年或数十年的时间，开发用于建模和数据分析的专用软件，以推进研究和教育。当有用的代码公开共享时，这些努力广泛使研究人员社区受益，但是，缺乏引用软件的既定方法是在个人开发人员或团队之外共享源代码的重大障碍。软件引用为开发人员提供了适当的归属，并提高了结果的可重复性。该项目汇集了图书馆学、计算科学、科学技术研究以及计算密集型物理科学（地球物理学）领域的跨学科专家团队，旨在开发和测试该问题的新解决方案。该团队将评估社区的需求，并将开发一种用于引用开源软件的软件工具，该工具描述软件环境并嵌入到软件开发人员和研究人员等将使用并发现可用的工作流程中。该项目利用计算地球物理社区作为实践社区，试点了一种新的软件引用流程，该流程将识别和满足社区的需求并消除采用的障碍。地球物理学研究界开发了广泛的科学软件套件，以解决地震系统科学等社会重要问题的基础研究。通过提高对科学进步至关重要的开源软件的可见性和可信度，该项目将增加软件开发投资的科学影响。通过提供一种方式来表彰开发软件的科学家的努力，该项目将鼓励有才华的开发人员和计算研究人员的职业发展，从而鼓励开发和传播质量更高、记录更完善的软件。可以适当引用的更高质量和更好记录的软件有助于解决科学研究中可重复性的挑战，这是验证和验证建模结果所需的。 最后，软件的可用性和可用性的提高将为其他科学家和研究人员提供新的工具和技术来解决最具挑战性的研究问题，从而实现新的发现。