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:
- improve adoption of and revisit best practices for research software registries and repositories
- enable federated software search and discovery over multiple member resources by exposing curated, interoperable metadata
- 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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