Highlights of the "Software Pillar of Open Science" workshop - LARA - Libre accès aux rapports scientifiques et techniques

Abstract "Software has become essential in all areas of scientific research, both as a tool for research, a product of research, and a research object in itself. In the quest to make research results reproducible, and pass knowledge to future generations, we must preserve three main pillars: the research articles that describe the results, the data sets used or produced, and the software source code that embodies the logic of the data transformation. Indeed, the preservation of software source code is as essential as preserving research articles and data sets. The main aim of this in-person half-day event, organized by the French Committee for Open Science on November 29th 2023, was to bring together high-level stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds, including researchers, research software engineers, research evaluation bodies, infrastructures, academic open source program offices (OSPOs), and financial backers, to share their experience and views on research software. The workshop featured three panel sessions, in which speakers focused on major dimensions of relevance to software in open science: − Acknowledgment of software as a key pillar for reproducible research; − Recognition and support for the dissemination of software; − Highlighting of the social impact of software."