diff --git a/talks-public/2019-07-ResearchSoftware/METADATA b/talks-public/2019-07-ResearchSoftware/METADATA index 6ceed5e..2836c4b 100644 --- a/talks-public/2019-07-ResearchSoftware/METADATA +++ b/talks-public/2019-07-ResearchSoftware/METADATA @@ -1,15 +1,18 @@ Title: - Archiving, assessing and attributing research software: first steps towards making it a first class citizen in the scholarly world + + Archiving, assessing and attributing research software: towards + software as a first class citizen in the scholarly world Abstract: - Software is a fundamental pillar of modern scientific research, across - all fields and disciplines. However, there is a general lack of - adequate means to archive, reference and cite software. - In this talk, we will survey the main issues that make this task - difficult, ranging from the specificity of the persistent identifiers - needed for reproducibility to the complexity of determining software - authorship and authority, especially for long running projects, which - are needed fro proper software attribution and credit. In this talk we + + Software is a fundamental pillar of modern scientific research, across all + fields and disciplines. However, there is a general lack of adequate means to + archive, reference and cite software. In this talk, we will survey the main + issues that make this task difficult, ranging from the specificity of the + persistent identifiers needed for reproducibility to the complexity of + determining software authorship and authority, especially for long running + projects, which are needed for proper software attribution and credit. We report on recent contributions to the ongoing efforts to develop proper - guidelines and recommendations for software reference and software - citation, building upon the internal experience of Inria. + processes, guidelines and recommendations for software reference and + software citation, building upon the internal experience of Inria and the + emerging Software Heritage infrastructure.