Rewarding Software Sharing by Mapping Scientific Software

Sat, 07 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Sharing software you write with other scientists can magnify the impact of your research, but there can be a surprising amount of sometimes thankless extra work involved. I work with a group at Carnegie Mellon's Institute for Software Research who have been asking scientists what that extra work is, and what motivates them to do it—despite a sometimes uncertain link between that extra work and the ways many of them are evaluated in their jobs. We're looking at ways of measuring and mapping software and its impacts, in order to help scientists demonstrate the positive impact that their work on shared software has on science. We're running an experiment that you can help with.

Chris Bogart on The Carpentries

Rewarding Software Sharing by Mapping Scientific Software