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Software as Infrastructure Daniel S. Katz Assistant Director for Scientific Software & Applications, NCSA Research Associate Professor, CS Research Associate Professor, ECE Research Associate Professor, iSchool dskatz@illinois.edu,

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National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Software as Infrastructure

Daniel S. Katz Assistant Director for Scientific Software & Applications, NCSA Research Associate Professor, CS Research Associate Professor, ECE Research Associate Professor, iSchool dskatz@illinois.edu, d.katz@ieee.org, @danielskatz

FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute

WT02: Software Citation: Principles, Usage, Benefits, and Challenges

2–3 August 2017

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Infrastructure in research

What is it?
Ideas
Books and papers
Instruments
Objects (e.g. Samples)
Reagents
Tools
Data
Software
Computers

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Cyberinfrastructure

Aka eScience infrastructure, eResearch infrastructure
What is it?
Ideas?
“Cyberinfrastructure consists of

computing systems, data storage systems, advanced instruments and data repositories, visualization environments, and people, all linked together by software and high performance networks, to improve research productivity and enable breakthroughs not otherwise possible.”

C. A. Stewart et al. 2010. What is cyberinfrastructure.

In Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM SIGUCCS Fall Conference: Navigation and Discovery (SIGUCCS '10). https://doi. org/10.1145/1878335.1878347

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Purposes of software in research

Create Hypothesis Acquire Resources (e.g., Funding, Software, Data) Perform Research (Build Software & Data) Publish Results (e.g., Paper, Book, Software, Data) Gain Recognition Acquire Resources (Data)

Infrastructure Research

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Research software vs. infrastructure software

Some software is intended for research
Funded by many agencies, sometimes explicitly, often implicitly
Intended for immediate use by developer
Maybe archived for future use and reproducibility
Other software is intended as infrastructure
Funded by some agencies, almost always explicitly
Intended for use by community
We focus mostly on infrastructure software, but some

issues cross between

Reproducibility causes the most overlap