Towards a project community approach to academic scientific software development

Scott Loynton; David Sloan; Jean-Marie Burel; Catriona MacAulay

doi:10.1109/ESCIW.2009.5407962

Towards a project community approach to academic scientific software development

Scott Loynton, David Sloan, Jean-Marie Burel, Catriona MacAulay

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Abstract

Academic scientific software development projects aim to provide valuable research tools to aid the scientific community in the process of discovery. The need for those tools to meet wider expectations of usability and good user experience design is critical to success; however the nature of academic e-science software development projects means they are often constrained by too narrow an understanding of the potential user base, and a focus on development at the expense of broad user research. We introduce the concept of the Project Community as a way of addressing these limitations in capacity to support effective "user research" that informs and influences longer-term marketing and outreach strategy as well as supporting the development of usable and useful scientific software.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	e-science 2009
Subtitle of host publication	proceedings of the 2009 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Workshops
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	120-124
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781424459452
ISBN (Print)	9781424459469
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ESCIW.2009.5407962
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2009
Event	2009 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Workshops - Oxford, United Kingdom Duration: 9 Dec 2009 → 11 Dec 2009 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5400052

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Conference	2009 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Workshops
Abbreviated title	e-science 2009
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Oxford
Period	9/12/09 → 11/12/09
Internet address	http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5400052

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Computer software
Research
Software design
e-science

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Loynton, S, Sloan, D, Burel, J-M & MacAulay, C 2009, Towards a project community approach to academic scientific software development. in e-science 2009: proceedings of the 2009 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Workshops. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp. 120-124, 2009 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Workshops, Oxford, United Kingdom, 9/12/09. https://doi.org/10.1109/ESCIW.2009.5407962

Towards a project community approach to academic scientific software development. / Loynton, Scott; Sloan, David; Burel, Jean-Marie et al.
e-science 2009: proceedings of the 2009 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Workshops. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2009. p. 120-124.

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