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Parent categories: Strategy
Other tags: | Managing A Team: Documentation/Writing |
Blogging your research: Tips for getting started - Alice Fleerackers, ScholCommBlog Fleerackers’ post is aimed at researchers but works equally well for us in research computing. It starts off with an important point - not every blog post needs to be a 1500 word feature. It could be a summary of a paper or conference session, a Q&A/interview post; anything that makes the audience more informed about your groups work than it was before. The decision for where to blog is normally easier for our...
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Newcastle University Research Software Engineering 2020 (PDF) - Newcastle Research Software Group BEAR - Advanced Research Computing Research Software Group 2020 Report (PDF) - Birmingham Research Software Group These two reports on the 2020 activities of the research software development groups at Newcastle and Birmingham are extremely interesting if you run a research software development core facility-type operation, and very interesting even if you don’t int terms of the clear product and strategy mindset (and communications efforts) behind the groups. In Newcastle’s, we get some...
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If you build it, promote it, and they trust you, then they will come: Diffusion strategies for science gateways and cyberinfrastructure adoption to harness big data in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) community - Kerk F. Kee, Bethanie Le, Kulsawasd Jitkajornwanich Software packages, like ideas, don’t in fact speak for themselves. Getting any sizeable number of people to adopt a new idea, new practice, or new tool requires enormous amount of coordinated communication effort. In this paper, Kee, Le, and Jitkajornwanich describe what...
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Research Software Engineering to reduce the environmental impact of a long-running script - Univ of Bristol Advanced Computing Research Centre RSE Case Studies - N8CIR In research computing, too much of the work we do goes unsung. This is a problem for a number of reasons - institutional decision makers don’t see the impact of our work, and other researchers we could be working with don’t have a good sense of what we do. As with the technical areas of research computing, documentation is key!...
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