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
Draft Agenda
Workshop Day 0 - Wednesday April 9, 2025 (1215 - 1630)
1330 Attendees distill symposium inputs into actionable workshop priorities
1400 Breakout Groups
1500 Coffee/Tea Break
1515 Reconvene, share-out, and full group discussion
1630 Depart
1730 Optional group dinner at Western Market
Workshop Day 1 - Thursday April 10, 2025
0800 Arrival + Breakfast
0830 Introductions
0900 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
1145 Reconvene / Share-out
1200 Lunch
1300 Full group discussion
1430 Coffee/Tea Break
1445 Breakout Groups or full group discussion
1700 Recap
1800 Group Dinner (tentatively at Old Ebbitt Grill)
Workshop Day 2 - Friday April 11, 2025
0800 Arrival + Breakfast
0830 Intro and continue breakout group work: software metadata interoperability, software tools to improve research software, revisiting best practices, FAIR metadata assessments
1045 Coffee/Tea Break
1100 Establish a prioritized roadmap for future work for each breakout group
1130 Reconvene / Share-out
1200 Lunch
1300 Full Group Discussion
1430 Coffee/Tea Break
1445 Wrap up full group discussion, establish final priorities and work streams for SciCodes members
1600 Close, safe travels all!
