Sadie Bartholomew

November 3, 2020, 15:00 – 16:00 UTC

In this demonstration we will build a mature documentation system from scratch for a dummy project using the Sphinx documentation generator, the infrastructure of choice for the documentation of a huge number of modern software projects, including of Python itself.

Jonathan Dursi

October 7, 2020, 16:30 – 16:50 UTC

Research software development teams are too important to be managed poorly. But no one teaches us to be good managers — especially in academia.

Towards an NLP Pipeline for Conflict Narrative Detection

Stephen Anning, Dr. George Konstantinidis, Dr. Craig Webber

October 22, 2020, 14:00 – 14:30 UTC

This talk is about PhD research into developing an NLP pipeline for Conflict Narrative Detection. In response to increased incidences of online abuse, a new industry of hate speech detection using NLP has emerged. Accordingly, we tested NLP technologies used by this industry to discover how quant...

From experimental software to research infrastructure maturity

Carsten Thiel

December 7, 2020, 14:30 – 15:00 UTC

The challenges facing research software development are manifold and have long been a major topic at RSE conferences.

Towards Knowledge Graphs of Research Software metadata

Daniel Garijo, Yolanda Gil, Maximiliano Osorio, Varun Ratnakar, Deborah Khider

September 22, 2020, 19:30 – 20:00 UTC

Research software is a key asset for understanding, reusing and reproducing results in computational sciences. An increasing amount of software is stored in code repositories, which usually contain human readable instructions indicating how to use it and set it up. However, developers and researc...

UXF - Framework for creating Virtual Reality human behavior experiments in Unity

Dr. Jack Brookes, Matthew Warburton, Prof. Mark Mon-Williams, Dr. Faisal Mushtaq

September 22, 2020, 19:00 – 19:30 UTC

Recent advances in technology has meant that Virtual Reality (VR) is now a feasible tool for performing human behaviour experiments. Scientists dream of being able to have full control over human sensory inputs, as well as complete measurement of responses. VR is coming closer to fulfilling this ...

Research Software Directories: What, Why and How?

Mark Woodbridge, Vanessa Sochat, Jurriaan Spaaks

September 16, 2020, 18:00 – 19:30 UTC

This discussion session will focus on Research Software Directories: catalogues to showcase the software outputs of an institution or community. We will introduce the topic before demonstrating three independently-developed open source directories, explaining their respective benefits and ease of...

Executable Research Article (ERA): Enrich a research paper with code and data

Dr. Emmy Tsang

September 9, 2020, 14:00 – 15:00 UTC

Code and data are important research output and integral to a full understanding of research findings and experimental approaches in a paper. However, traditional research articles seldom have these embedded in the manuscript’s narrative, but instead, leave them as “supplementary materials”, if t...

Becoming a self-employed RSE web developer.

Dr. Teri Forey

October 16, 2020, 09:30 – 10:00 UTC

This is a two part talk, initially focussing on how I changed career and established a sole trader business, the second part on the latest web development techniques I use.

Bringing Imaging-Based Artificial Intelligence into Clinical Practice in NHS Radiology

Dr. Rizwan Malik

December 7, 2020, 14:00 – 14:30 UTC

Whilst there are over 200 Imaging/Radiology AI Companies world wide there are currently only about 50 FDA approved algorithms. There are also significant barriers to overcome in bringing AI to the NHS landscape. In Bolton NHS Foundation Trust we are the first NHS Organisation to deploy the Qure.A...

How to understand and improve the performance of your parallel applications using the POP Methodology

Fouzhan Hosseini

October 16, 2020, 09:00 – 09:30 UTC

HPC applications are often very complex and their behavior depends on a wide range of factors from algorithms, to programming models, library and language implementations and hardware. The task of understanding performance bottlenecks of a parallel code and making improvements often ends up being...

Improving FAIRness with containers

Dr. Ana Trisovic, Dr. Merce Crosas

October 7, 2020, 16:00 – 16:30 UTC

The FAIR guiding principles state that published research objects should be made Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable for other researchers. Data repositories provide research dissemination following FAIR principles while also developing standards and tools to facilitate them. Howeve...

FAIR 4 Research Software

Dr. Anna-Lena Lamprecht, Dr. Daniel S. Katz, Dr. Fotis Psomopoulos, Dr. Jennifer Harrow, Dr. Leyla Garcia, Mateusz Kuzak, Dr. Michelle Barker, Morane Gruenpeter, Dr. Paula Andrea Martinez, Neil Chue Hong

November 17, 2020, 07:00 – 10:00 UTC

Repeated events

November 19, 2020, 16:00 – 19:00 UTC

The software has become essential for research. To improve the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of research software, it is desirable to develop and apply a set of FAIR Guiding Principles for software. Application of the FAIR principles to software will continue to advance...

What do we (not) know about RSE?

Dr. Anna-Lena Lamprecht, Dr. Michelle Barker, Dr. Carlos Martinez

October 28, 2020, 08:00 – 11:00 UTC

Repeated events

October 30, 2020, 15:00 – 18:00 UTC

Research Software Engineering (RSE) is increasingly being established as a field and profession in its own right. Since the term was coined about a decade ago, RSE has also been the subject of empirical research to gain knowledge and evidence about the various aspects involved. For example, the 2...

I wanna dance with somebody

Kari Jordan

September 2, 2020, 13:10 – 13:50 UTC

The Carpentries vision is to be the leading inclusive community teaching data and coding skills. Our first lesson program, Software Carpentry, was founded on several core values, including feedback, gratitude, and collaboration. The role research and data plays in your personal and professional l...

Switching off the label 'women in tech'

Mariann Hardey

September 2, 2020, 13:50 – 14:30 UTC

The focus of the talk is on the ways in which women are discursively constructed in the context of professional spaces in tech clusters. This is to give time to consider how the label “women in tech” (WiT) is dominated by the masculine perspective of tech work and characterised by how individuals...

Digital Humanities RSE: King's Digital Lab as experiment and lifecycle

James Smithies, Arianna Ciula

September 29, 2020, 15:00 – 16:30 UTC

This SORSE event describes King’s Digital Lab (KDL), a Research Software Engineering lab operating within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at King’s College London (UK). The KDL team of 18 project managers, analysts, designers, engineers, and systems managers specialise in arts & humanities...

Optimal time frequency analysis for biological data - pyBOAT

Dr. Gregor Mönke, Frieda Sorgenfrei, Dr. Christoph Schmal, Dr. Adrian Granada

December 4, 2020, 14:00 – 15:00 UTC

Methods for the quantification of rhythmic biological signals have been essential for the discovery of function and design of biological oscillators. Advances in live measurements have allowed recordings of unprecedented resolution revealing a new world of complex heterogeneous oscillations with ...

Goodbot, Badbot? Engineering trust into conversational interfaces

Dave Horsfall

November 10, 2020, 10:00 – 10:30 UTC

As more people interact with bots driven by Artificial Intelligence, it is important to understand how to create relationships based on trust. The FinTrust Project at Newcastle University is looking at the role of machine learning in banking, particularly in the context of automated chatbots and ...

Learnings from developing and maintaining a research software that has been used more than 3 million times in the last 3 years

Dr. Abhishek Dutta

November 10, 2020, 10:30 – 11:00 UTC

Manually annotated images and videos are a fundamental part of many research projects and industrial applications. However, manual image annotation tools are often designed to address one specific use case and lack the flexibility to be reused across different projects. Furthermore, these tools o...

Development of an Automated High-Throughput Animal Training Platform

Sarah Leinicke, Mahmood Shad

January 20, 2021, 15:00 – 16:00 UTC

In traditional neuroscience laboratory research, training animals to execute sensorimotor tasks is time consuming, labor and resource intensive, and prone to human bias and error. The Research Software Engineering team at Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Science Research Computing (FASRC...

The Continual Road to an Inclusive Definition and Use of Terms for the US Research Software Engineer Community

Sandra Gesing, Dr. Daniel S. Katz, Dr. Lance Parsons, Dr. Charles Ferenbaugh, Dr. Ian Cosden

October 22, 2020, 14:30 – 14:45 UTC

An important part of building a strong and resilient community is fostering collaboration between individuals with varying backgrounds, expertise, and viewpoints and building a diverse and inclusive community. While the term Research Software Engineering was initially suggested in 2010, there are...

Partner Event - HPC Champions Workshop

Anna Brown, Alan Simpson, Andy Turner, James Grant, Josephine Beech-Brandt

September 17, 2020, 12:00 – 16:00 UTC
September 18, 2020, 12:00 – 16:00 UTC

The next HPC Champions workshop will be held virtually over 2 afternoons on the 17th/18th September, and will involve talks, discussion sessions and working group sessions. Topics covered will include updates from the national and regional supercomputing sites, training, and plans for knowledge a...

European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI)

Kenneth Hoste

November 25, 2020, 15:00 – 16:00 UTC

What if there was a way to avoid having to install a broad range of scientific software from scratch on every workstation, HPC cluster, or cloud instance you use or maintain, without compromising on performance?

My project expired and my team left, so let's rewrite all the software from scratch

Dr. Tobias Weinzierl

January 26, 2021, 14:00 – 14:30 UTC

Peano is a framework for large-scale simulations using dynamically adaptive Cartesian grids. It is used today for Earthquake and Black Hole simulations, for example. The fourth generation of the software is currently under development.

Research Squirrel Engineers - An independent squirrel network for RSEs in DH and archaeology

Sophie Schmidt, Florian Thiery, Timo Homburg, Martina Trognitz

February 11, 2021, 16:00 – 16:15 UTC

People who write code for research are few and far between in the archaeological sciences. Quite often they are regarded as technicians and their function in research projects reduced to those of “helpers”, diminishing their contribution to the success of the undertaking. Nowadays some students o...

Research Software and the Modelling of COVID-19 in the UK

Matthew Bluteau

January 13, 2021, 15:00 – 16:30 UTC

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 created an urgent need for epidemiological and infectious disease modelling. In the UK, a surge of local and national initiatives quickly emerged to support existing research groups with the increased demands of this crisis, and Research Software E...

Web apps with the power of Python

Hazi Hannah, Meredydd Luff

February 3, 2021, 16:00 – 17:00 UTC

Learn how to speak Python for the web!

Applying Scrum to Research Software Projects

Matt Machin

January 26, 2021, 14:30 – 15:00 UTC

Background Scrum is a modern, agile and widely used software development methodology. Rather than trying to set requirements in stone at the beginning of a project, Scrum embraces the idea that requirements will change during all software projects. It takes an iterative, incremental approach and ...

Particle image velocimetry to study cell migration

Stefania Marcotti, Dr. Burki Mubarik, Prof. Brian M Stramer

February 11, 2021, 16:15 – 16:45 UTC

Particle image velocimetry (PIV) is a widely used optical method originally developed to understand fluid dynamics by tracking seeded particles moving through a fluid. In the context of biological disciplines, image-based pseudo-PIV is now a common tool to examine flows in tissues and cells, by e...

When Spreadsheets Attack! (and other maths disasters.)

Matt Parker

December 17, 2020, 14:45 – 16:45 UTC

In October 2020 the UK government lost thousands of COVID test results because they hit the limit of the maximum number of rows in an Excel file. This is but one of many, many mistakes made all around the world because of spreadsheet abuse. In 2012 the State Office of Education in Utah miscalcula...

Code Review Community

Hollydawn Murray, Rachael Ainsworth, Dannon Baker, Olly Butters, Jeffrey C. Carver, Luis Pedro Coelho, Fergus Cooper, Barry Demchak, Kenan Direk, Stephen J Eglen, Daniel S. Katz, Helena Ledmyr, Thibault Lestang, David Nicholson, David Miguel Susano Pinto, Esther Plomp, Fotis Psomopoulos, Amy Strange, Leonid Tiokhin

January 20, 2021, 15:00 – 16:00 UTC

Code review for research software is the process by which peers evaluate each other’s source code. This involves checking that the code does what it claims and is written in a way that can easily be read, maintained, and built upon. Code review is an important tool for ensuring that software is h...

RSE careers in France: the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) option

Dr. Sylvain Laizet

February 23, 2021, 14:00 – 15:00 UTC

In this talk, I will introduce the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). The CNRS is an interdisciplinary public research organisation under the administrative supervision of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research. Its main role is to advance knowledge for the benef...

Building Research Software Communities: How to increase engagement in your community

Jeremy Cohen, Dr. Michelle Barker, Daniel Nüst

March 17, 2021, 09:00 – 11:00 UTC
March 18, 2021, 09:00 – 11:00 UTC

Communities are a very important aspect of the development and sustainability of research software engineering. It was as the result of a community meeting back in 2012 that the Research Software Engineering (RSE) movement came about. This goes to show the potential power of a group of individual...

Research On The Go

Peter Schmidt, Mark Turner, Adrian Harwood

February 18, 2021, 14:00 – 15:00 UTC

Software for research comes in many different forms and technologies. This includes software that runs on mobile devices. The demand for this is growing, whether it is for “citizen-science” projects or in clinical and educational research. In this SORSE (online) roundtable event, we discuss ex...

Four pillars of a reproducible PhD

Jamie Quinn

March 16, 2021, 14:40 – 14:50 UTC

Reproducibility and sustainability of research and associated software are increasingly viewed as priorities by publishers, funders and the academic community. The process of writing a thesis can be a playground where modern PhD students can explore new tools and techniques for improving the repr...

Embedding a Jupyter Notebook

Teri Forey

January 20, 2021, 15:00 – 16:00 UTC

Many RSEs and researchers are familiar with using Jupyter Notebooks to analyse data and output results, but how can this functionality be included within a larger platform or application? Creating a new analysis tool would take a lot of developer hours, and so a more cost-effective solution could...

On the evaluation of research software: the CDUR procedure

Dr. Teresa Gomez-Diaz, Prof. Tomas Recio

March 16, 2021, 14:00 – 14:30 UTC

The goal of the proposed talk is to present the publication

Why do we need an EuSSI?

Stephan Druskat, Bezaye Tesfaye, Carlos Martinez-Ortiz

March 10, 2021, 13:00 – 14:30 UTC

Software sustainability is an important aspect of research software engineering. Good practices in software sustainability are still evolving and are not yet universally standardized. Different practices have emerged within domain specific communities, and expertise is additionally shared in loca...

Little Minions in Archaeology - an open space for RSE software and small scripts in digital archaeology

Florian Thiery, Ronald Visser, Moritz Mennenga

March 3, 2021, 10:45 – 10:55 UTC

In our daily work, small self-made scripts, home-grown small applications and small hardware devices significantly help us to get work done. These little helpers - “little minions” - often reduce our workload or optimise our workflows, although they are not often presented to the outside world an...

QGameTheory: An R package for teaching quantum computing and quantum game theory to students

Indranil Ghosh

March 16, 2021, 14:30 – 14:40 UTC

This is a package that has been written in the R programming language. As we know, R is an open-source software that is being widely used by statisticians and scientists all over the world. The purpose of this package is to build a very simple open-source project that will teach the basics of qua...

How FAIR is your research software?

Carlos Martinez-Ortiz, Faruk Diblen

March 9, 2021, 17:00 – 17:30 UTC

FAIR software is a topic of growing importance in the research software landscape. There have been efforts to describe the how the FAIR principles apply to research software and work in this direction is still ongoing.

Wikidata as a research tool for data modelling and integration in the humanities - Examples from the German Wikimedia Fellow Program Free Knowledge

Florian Thiery, Sophie Charlotte Schmidt, Jakob Voß

March 3, 2021, 10:00 – 10:30 UTC

Research Software Engineers and their work is becoming increasingly important in digital humanities research just as digital humanities gain traction. Not just developing and extending software are important for this process, data creation, data publication and data management are equally critica...

A new distributed data analysis framework for better scientific collaborations

Philipp S. Sommer, Viktoria Wichert, Daniel Eggert, Tilman Dinter, Klaus Getzlaff, Andreas Lehmann, Christian Werner, Brenner Silva, Lennart Schmidt, Angela Schäfer

March 3, 2021, 10:30 – 10:45 UTC

A common challenge for projects with multiple involved research institutes is a well-defined and productive collaboration. All parties measure and analyze different aspects, depend on each other, share common methods, and exchange the latest results, findings, and data. Today this exchange is oft...

SORSE - Ask Us Anything sessions

You can sign up to a ‘Ask us Anything’ session held on zoom where you can put suggestions to us for an event, run through how your idea would work with the tools that we are planning to use or anything else! Sign up here for one of the sessions.

Until when do I have to submit?

The Call for Contributions form will remain open continuously and there will be a rolling deadline at the end of the last day (UTC) of each month, following which all contributions received over the previous month will be sent for review by the Programme Committee.

Lightning talk session

We will run a lightning talk session on Wed 20th January 2021 at 3pm UTC.

The SORSE Finale

During a challenging year in which all of us are likely to have spent some or all of our time working from home, we have also missed out on the opportunity to attend traditional in-person events and conferences. The various national RSE workshops and conferences that have been run over recent yea...

Four pillars of a reproducible PhD

As the academic community continues to embrace open science and reproducible research, it is increasingly important for an academic to understand the tools which can make research easier, more accessible and more sustainable. It can be challenging to absorb so many different good practices while ...

Embedding a Jupyter Notebook

Submitted blog as part of the lightning talk session on January 20 during SORSE, an International Series of Online Research Software Events. Describes how I embedded jupyter notebooks within a web application.

SORSE: Research Software Directories

The discussion session “Research Software Directories: What, Why, and How?” was held on September 16 during SORSE, an International Series of Online Research Software Events. As presenters, we each shared efforts to develop and maintain software directories: catalogues to showcase the software ou...

Christmas SORSE Event: When Spreadsheets Attack! (and other maths disasters.)

Are you already looking forward to the festive break for some relaxation? Yes, so are we! But just before you close your computer down for possibly the last time in 2020, join us for a lighthearted look at When Spreadsheets Attack! with the hilarious, well-known standup comedian and mathematician...

Lightning talk session

We will run a lightning talk session on Wed 20th January 2021 at 3pm UTC.

Kickoff SORSE on September, 2nd

To kick off our series, we ran the SORSE Launch Event on Wednesday 2nd September. We had two keynote speakers at this event:

Mentoring at SORSE

Presenting at a conference, be it face-to-face or online, can be daunting, especially if you do not have a lot of experience presenting. Presenting online brings additional challenges, like handling of the technology, the (more or less) anonymous online-space, and the strange feeling of being in ...

SORSE - Ask Us Anything sessions

SORSE - Call for Contributions

The SORSE call for abstract submissions has now closed and the 2020/2021 series of events has ended. Take a look at the programme page for details and videos of the past events.