Workshop (online) - Evaluation of Tools and Services to improve the quality of research software

Name: Workshop (online) - Evaluation of Tools and Services to improve the quality of research software
Start: 2025-02-10T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-02-10T16:00:00+01:00
Location: No location set

Monday 10 Feb 2025, 10:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Description

Goals of the workshop

The workshop wants to:

Provide a platform for knowledge exchange & discussion on relevant tools & services used to asses & improve the quality of research software & FAIRness
Enable participants to learn from other communities
Capture existing practices
Indentify gaps in available tooling

Ultimately, the gained knowledge will feed into the EVERSE project to provide the RSQkit service with the means to make this kind of software tools and training easily accessible across various scientific domains.

Connection details

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88540139167

Meeting ID: 885 4013 9167

Organiser: EVERSE MS8

Contact

e.breitmoser@epcc.ed.ac.uk

k.pringle@epcc.ed.ac.uk

- Plenary: Introduction
  
  Introduction and background
- Plenary: Lightning Talks
  
  Examples of users' experiences with tool usage
- Plenary: Mentimeter and facilitated plenary discussion
  
  Mentimeter to capture participants' background and goals, technical discussion based on mentimeter outcome
- 11:00
  
  Coffee break
- Breakout session: 1
  
  Discussion about users' experience with tools
- Plenary: Introduction to breakout session 2
- Breakout session: 2
  
  More in-depth discussion about tools (choose your preferred quality dimension)
- 12:40
  
  Lunch Break
- Parallel sessions
  - Missing tools
  - TechRadar
  - User personas
- Reporting back
  
  Reporting back from previous breakout sessions & general feedback
- Wrap-up