OSTI Developing Open Source, Social Coding Platform for DOE Scientific Softwareby Brian Hitson 02 Nov, 2016 in What would a modern software center look like? We posed that question to Department of Energy (DOE) researchers across the complex in an effort to continue making our scientific and technical information (STI) tools and services best in class. The answers we received were both enthusiastic and enlightening: to be most useful, a modern DOE software platform must connect researchers in meaningful ways to their software, data, and research documents; embrace open source; not duplicate but complement existing community practices and platforms; provide for social coding; and enable social media that incorporates sharing and notification systems for software news and updates as well as links to author profiles. We at the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) are happy to announce that this platform, called DOE Code, is now under planning and development. Why is this important to DOE? Software is a critical form of STI and instrumental to scientific research. It allows scientists to achieve day-to-day tasks, perform complex modeling and simulation, execute big data analytics, and control some of the largest scientific instruments in the world; in other words, software is essential to every aspect of modern scientific research. Why is it important for OSTI to ensure a robust software platform? OSTI is charged with fulfilling the... Related Topics: DOE Scientific Software, Open Source Read more... |
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