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The art of software maintenance
When it comes to software management there are probably more questions than answers to problems – that was the conclusion of a recent workshop hosted by the Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC) as part of a national series on software sustainability, sharing and management, funded by Jisc. The presentations and notes from the day are available, as is a Storify from the tweets. The goal of these workshops was to flesh out the current problems in software management and sharing and try to identify possible solutions. The researcher-led nature of this event provided researchers, software engineers and support staff with a great opportunity to discuss the issues around creating and…
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Software Licensing and Open Access
As part of the Office of Scholarly Communication Open Access Week celebrations, we are uploading a blog a day written by members of the team. Wednesday is a piece by Dr Marta Teperek reporting on the Software Licensing Workshop held on 14 September 2015 at Cambridge. Uncertainties about sharing and licensing of software If the questions that the Research Data Service Team have been asked during data sharing information sessions with over 1000 researchers at the University of Cambridge are any indicator, then there is a great deal of confusion about sharing source code. There have been a wide range of questions during the discussions in these sessions, and the Research Data Service Team…
