{"id":456,"date":"2017-10-10T10:33:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T09:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/highly-relevant\/?p=456"},"modified":"2018-09-18T11:14:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T10:14:59","slug":"3rd-data-conversation-software-as-data-summary-and-slides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/highly-relevant\/2017\/10\/10\/3rd-data-conversation-software-as-data-summary-and-slides\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd Data Conversation – Software as data: summary and slides"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We had our third Data Conversation<\/a> here at Lancaster University again with the aim of bringing together researchers to share their data stories and discuss issues and exchange ideas in a\u00a0 friendly and informal setting.<\/p>\n

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Data Conversations Agenda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had a bit of a change this time, however, as we had a special guest speaker, Neil Chue-Hong<\/a> of the Software Sustainability Institute<\/a> talking about Software as “a different kind of research object<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

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We all had plenty of time to eat pizza and crisps before Neil invited us all to consider reproducibility and sustainability in relation to software.\u00a0 Neil has a very clear and engaging style which really helped us, the audience, navigate around the complex issues of managing software.\u00a0 He asked us all to imagine returning to our work in three months time – would it make sense?\u00a0 Would it still work?\u00a0 He also addressed some of the complex issues around versioning, authorship and sharing software.<\/p>\n

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Neil Chue-Hong, Software Sustainability Institute<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n