All agencies that fund research should require that resulting publications include a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) listing the software used in the research.
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January 14, 2021 11am-12:30pm January 14, 2021 11:00 AM to
January 14, 2021 12:30 PM Virtual Meeting
Talk Abstract: A key challenge of science policy is to achieve sustained benefit from scientific grantmaking. In this presentation, I will provide a framework for thinking about sustainability in scientific software projects, based on empirical studies of development and use of software in science. The framework starts by asking: what is it that causes sustainability problems? Over time, software declines in scientific usefulness, driven by four factors: a moving scientific frontier, technological change, friction in building software, friction in using software, and, least appreciated, change in the software ecosystem sounding a component. These factors drive a need for work; in response, we can try to suppress the drivers, try to reduce the amount of work needed, or attract sufficient resources able to undertake th