understanding sustainability and doing it better
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Understanding Sustainability and Doing It Better. 03 March 2011 Neil Chue Hong, Director, SSI [email protected]. sus·tain tr.v . sus·tained , sus·tain·ing , sus·tains ; n . sus·taina·bili·ty ; adj. sus·taina·ble 1. To keep in existence; maintain . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Software Sustainability Institute
www.software.ac.uk
Understanding Sustainability and Doing It Better
03 March 2011Neil Chue Hong, Director, [email protected]
sus·taintr.v. sus·tained, sus·tain·ing, sus·tains; n. sus·taina·bili·ty; adj. sus·taina·ble1. To keep in existence; maintain.
Software Sustainability Institute
www.software.ac.uk
The Software Sustainability Institute
A national facility for building better software• Better software enables better research• Software reaches boundaries in its
maturity cycle that prevent improvement, growth and adoption
• Providing the expertise and services needed to negotiate to the next stage• Software reviews and refactoring, collaborations
to develop your project, guidance and best practice on software development, project management, community building, publicity and more…
Software Sustainability Institute
www.software.ac.uk
Case Study: Climate Policy Modelling
• CIAS team at Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia Develop linked climate and economic models for detailed
analysis Their software was not ready to be used by other groups
• One researcher/developer at UEA, several users
• SSI’s work means the software is robust enough that it can be installed and used by others Enabled use of the software by the WWFN’s Climascope
project and James Cook University• Documented software to allow extensions by contributors• Made it easier to maintain and backup• Added job scheduling to improve modeling throughput• New modelling framework enables new models i.e. new science
• http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/research/cias
Why collaborate?
Collaboration is a recursive process where two or more
people or organizations work together intersection of
common goals by sharing knowledge, learning and
building consensus
Collaboration is the suspension of mutual hatred and distrust for
mutual gain
Collaboration allows us to create partnerships which
enable better research
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