understanding sustainability and doing it better
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Understanding Sustainability and Doing It Better - panel presentation by Neil Chue Hong at the JISC Innovation Forum 2010 (#JIF10). See: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2010/07/jif10/virtualgoodybag/understandingsustainability.aspx for other presentations and list of useful links (in Understanding Sustainability & Doing It Better document)TRANSCRIPT
Software Sustainability Institute
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Software Sustainability
Neil Chue HongDirector, [email protected]
JISC Innovation Forum 2010
Software Sustainability Institute
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The Software Sustainability Institute
• A national facility for research software Providing services for research
software users and developers Developing research community
interactions and capacity Promoting research software
best practice and capability• Sustaining software by helping to negotiate the
stages of the software maturity cycle
Software Sustainability Institute
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Software Sustainability: preservation vs sustainability
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Preservation?
Sustainability?
Software Sustainability Institute
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Why are you considering software sustainability?
Achieve legal compliance
Create heritage value
Enable continued access to data
Encourage software reuse
Manage systems and services
Purpose
Software Sustainability Institute
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Sustainability in Context
ProductManagement
Funding/Effort
CommunityEngagement
SoftwareEngineering
SoftwareSustainability
Support /Contributions
MarketDevelopment
Software Sustainability Institute
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How are you going to choose the right approach?
Preservation (techno-centric)
Emulation (data-centric)
Migration (functionality-centric)
Transition (process-centric)
Hibernation (knowledge-centric)
Approach
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Software Sustainability
• Comparable to software risk management No one right “solution” but many examples of best
practice and process• Plan from before the start if possible
But must be reviewed regularly
• How are you currently doing it and who should be supporting it?
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Sustainability: thinking outside the box