Episode 136: Daniel S. Katz on the Research Software Alliance (ReSA)

Guest Daniel S. Katz Panelists Richard Littauer | Ben Nickolls |
Amanda Casari Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast
where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We
are very excited to have as our guest Daniel S. Katz, who’s Chief
Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA), Research Associate Professor in Computer Science,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the School of Information
Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He’s also
a Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellow and is one of the
founding editors and the current Associate Editor-in-Chief of The
Journal of Open Source Software. His interest is in cyber
infrastructure, advanced cyber infrastructure, and solving problems
at scale, but he’s also interested in policy issues, citation, and
credit mechanisms. Today, Dan is joining us to talk about the
Research Software Alliance (ReSA), how academia has changed over
the years, and why funding is necessary for these projects. Go
ahead and download this episode now to find out more! [00:04:39]
Dan explains what the Research Software Alliance is. [00:08:09] We
find out the difference between the ReSA and URSSI communities.
[00:11:34] Richard wonders why funding is necessary for all these
projects and how do we diversify our funding to make sure that it’s
not just Sloan that does this. [00:17:40] Ben asks if Dan thinks
the conversation within academia and within research institutions
is more mature and developed or more trustful compared to what’s
happening in commercial industry right now. [00:22:00] We find out
why research software is fundamentally different from corporate
software from the makers perspective, and Dan shares with us a
project he’s working on called Parsl. [00:26:25] Amanda brings up
the Journal of Open Source Software and asks Dan if he thinks that
software is viewed yet as a first class research project online
with a published paper, and if not, what are the barriers and what
things need to change in the academia industry. [00:30:38] If
you’re a Research Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Engineer,
or at companies or academies, find out how you can get involved in
ReSA. Dan also tells us more about the importance of funding.
[00:34:03] Find out the best places you can follow Dan online.
Spotlight [00:34:45] Ben’s spotlight is his favorite piece of
research work called FITS. [00:35:24] Amanda’s spotlight is a paper
she read titled, “Did You Miss My Comment or What?” Understanding
Toxicity in Open Source Discussions [00:36:37] Richard’s spotlight
is a paper he read titled, “How many genera of Stercorariidae are
there?” [00:37:29] Dan’s spotlight is the book, Radical Candor by
Kim Scott. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS
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Littauer Twitter
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Daniel S. Katz Twitter (https://twitter.com/danielskatz) Daniel S.
Katz LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielskatz) FAIR
Principles (https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/) RDA-Research
Data Alliance (https://www.rd-alliance.org/) FORCE11-The Future of
Research Communications and e-Scholarship (https://force11.org/)
Sustain Podcast-Episode 88 and Episode 79 with Leah Silen
(https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/leah-silen) The Sloan
Foundation Technology program announces over $5M in new grants
(https://mailchi.mp/4d3c75cb4f9a/sloan-tech-program-july2022?e=9293356a9c)
Research Software Alliance (https://www.researchsoft.org/) URSSI
(https://urssi.us/) Karthik Ram-UC Berkeley
(https://ram.berkeley.edu/) FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS)
Principles (https://doi.org/10.15497/RDA00068) A survey of the
state of the practice for research software in the United States
(PeerJ Computer Science) (https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.963)
OSPO++ (https://ospoplusplus.com/) Open Work in Academia Summit-RIT
(https://www.rit.edu/openworksummit/) Software Sustainability
Institute (http://software.ac.uk/) Parsl
(https://parsl-project.org/) ROpenSci (https://ropensci.org/) The
Journal of Open Source Software (https://joss.theoj.org/) NCSA
Post-doc posting on policy for sustainable code in research
software
(https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/ncsa-post-doc-posting-on-policy-for-sustainable-code-in-research-software/1079)
CIG-Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics
(http://geoweb.cse.ucdavis.edu/cig/about/) FITS
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS) “Did You Miss My Comment or
What? Understanding Toxicity in Open-Source Discussions
(https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/ckaestne/pdf/icse22_toxicity.pdf)
How many genera of Stercorariidae are there? (Springer Link)
(https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03544345) Radical
Candor by Kim Scott (https://www.radicalcandor.com/the-book/)
Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/)
Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound
(https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr
Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest:
Daniel S. Katz.