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2nd SciCodes Collaboration Workshop

Dates and Location

April 10-11, 2025 ♦ Arizona State University Barrett & O’Connor Washington Center

The Consortium of Scientific Software Registries and Repositories (SciCodes) 2nd Collaboration Workshop, scheduled for April 10-11, 2025 in Washington, DC, will bring together editors and maintainers from a wide range of scientific software registries and repositories as well as open research software advocates and expert practitioners.

The workshop’s primary goals include:

  1. improve adoption of and revisit best practices for research software registries and repositories
  2. enable federated software search and discovery over multiple member resources by exposing curated, interoperable metadata
  3. advance published research software quality through cyberinfrastructure that helps research communities adopt FAIR and frictionless software engineering practices

Agenda (all times in EST)

Workshop Day 0 - Wednesday April 9, 2025 (1215 - 1630)

Location: 8th Floor Event Pavilion, ASU Barrett & O’Connor Center

1330 Symposium recap with workshop attendees: refine workshop priorities and breakout group work streams

1630 Close / cleanup

1730 Dinner on your own or optional group dinner at Western Market / Taberna del Alabardero

Workshop Day 1 - Thursday April 10, 2025

0800 Arrival + Breakfast

0900 Introduction / Welcome

0915 Breakout Groups: software metadata interoperability, software tools to improve research software, revisiting best practices, FAIR metadata assessments, CodeMeta Working Group over Zoom

1030 Coffee/Tea Break

1045 Temperature check

1100 Breakout Groups

1200 Reconvene / Share-out

1215 Lunch

1315 Full group discussion / continue breakout groups

1430 Break (coffee / tea / snacks)

1445 Continue working groups

1645 Reconvene, recap

1700 Close

1800 Group Dinner at CIRCA

Workshop Day 2 - Friday April 11, 2025

Location: 8th Floor Event Pavilion, ASU Barrett & O’Connor Center

0800 Arrival + Breakfast

0900 Intro and continue breakout group work: software metadata interoperability, software tools to improve research software, revisiting best practices, FAIR metadata assessments

1030 Coffee/Tea Break

1045 Breakout Groups

1145 Reconvene / share out / establish prioritized roadmaps for future work for each breakout group

1200 Lunch

1300 Full group discussion, establish final priorities and work streams for SciCodes members

1430 Coffee/Tea Break

1445 Wrap up, establish final priorities and work streams for SciCodes members

1600 Close, safe travels all!

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