The Visible Research Software Interest Group is a space for community conversation, i.e. an online forum for people within Australasian Research Institutions to discuss visibility of research software, e.g. citation, publication, and FAIRification. The Visible Research Software Interest Group acts as a catalyst to jump-start coordinated activities designed to improve the visibility of research software assets to recognise authors of research software and improve the sustainability of those assets.
Stimulate community participation to share existing guidance, embrace new ideas (policy, incentives, partnerships, etc. ), expand networking and advance together. Increase awareness of national and international guidance to improve the visibility of research software locally by encouraging reflection and adoption.
Research software is defined to include source code files, algorithms, scripts, computational workflows and executables created during the research process or for a research purpose. Software components (e.g. operating systems, libraries, dependencies, packages, scripts, etc.) used for research but not created during or specifically for research should be considered software in research and not research software (Gruenpeter et al., 2021).
Please join to actively participate and help shape this community, by filling in this short application form. When you join you will be added to the email list to hear about further activities and become more involved! We aim to send a summary of discussions bimonthly.
At any time, we welcome your contributions via the public discussions forum. We use categories for discussions and you can read about them in the welcome message.