research software publications

On February 21, 2025, 11am CET, Guido Juckeland from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf will continue the HiRSE Seminar with his talk about Introduction of a quality indicator for research software publications

Abstract:

The Helmholtz Association is adding a new indicator for research data and research software publications to its reporting. A working group with members from all Helmholtz centers has been working on defining this new indicator and the Helmholtz general assembly has approved their suggestion in its fall meeting of 2024. In this talk the indicator as well as the ideas behind it and the methods to collect the information are introduced. The indicator is based on a maturity model looking at various aspects of a research software publication, thus also providing value to the authors of the software and research software researchers as it makes multiple aspects of research software as a scientific publication itself visible.

Institutions

• Helmholtz Platform for Research Software Engineering - Preparatory Study

On March 7, 2025, 11am CET, Samantha Wittke from CSC – IT Center for Science will continue the HiRSE Seminar with her talk about CodeRefinery: A Community for Teaching, Learning, and Growing Together

Abstract:

This talk will introduce the CodeRefinery project, its workshops, and its community, and explore how you can engage, contribute, and benefit from our resources as a researcher or Research Software Engineer.
CodeRefinery is a community-driven, publicly funded project dedicated to improving research code by providing hands-on training and open learning materials for researchers across disciplines. Our workshops focus on practical tools and “good enough” research software engineering practices that are often missing from traditional academic education—such as version control, reproducible research, collaborative development, and efficient coding techniques fostering Open Science and FAIR software development.
In addition to workshops and learning materials, CodeRefinery fosters a supportive and inclusive community where Research Software Engineers and enthusiasts can share knowledge, exchange experiences, and find opportunities for collaboration. This community-driven approach has enabled the joint organization of specialized workshops, such as high-performance computing (HPC) kick-off and “Tools and Techniques for HPC”, addressing a wide range of computational research needs.

Institutions

• Helmholtz Platform for Research Software Engineering - Preparatory Study

On Thursday 15th May at 11am CEST, we will celebrate the "Young RSE Award" winners from 2023, 2024 and 2025 with a presentation from each of them on the research topic that won them the award. If your RSE career has just started you can get involved in the Young RSE competition which occurs annually organised by the deRSE Association and takes place at the deRSE Conference. We welcome the 2023 Award Winner - Yudong Sun, the 2024 Award Winner - Florian Sihler, the 2025 Award Winner - Anna Lena Schaible. 

Yudong Sun

Title: Modularity in Software-Hardware Interaction for Experimental Physics, an Example

Florian Sihler

Title: flowR: A Program Slicer for the R Programming Language

Anna Lena Schaible

Title: Fast GPU-powered and auto-differentiable forward modeling for cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

Language: English

Institutions

• Helmholtz Platform for Research Software Engineering - Preparatory Study

Sabine Grießbach from Jülich Supercomputing Centre (FZJ) will join us at the HiRSE Seminar Series to talk about ‘Leveraging Earth System Science to Exascale’

Abstract: Modeling the Earth system is a complex, multidisciplinary endeavor encompassing various domains including the atmosphere, ocean, land surface, biosphere, ice sheets, and chemistry. In Germany, numerous research institutions actively work on Earth system modeling (ESM). ESM covers a wide range of spatial and temporal scales — from molecular interactions to global phenomena, and from hourly weather forecasts to paleo-climatic changes spanning millennia. The national Earth System Modeling project (natESM) aims to integrate these diverse modeling efforts. An important aspect is preparing the models for exascale computing.
Therefore, the German Climate Consortium (Deutsches Klima-Konsortium) has established a national ESM support team, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research. This support team, coordinated by the Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ) in Hamburg, plays a key role in the German strategy for advancing ESM capabilities. Its main objective is to bring together the German ESM community and enable the coupling of individual model components into more comprehensive, interoperable Earth system models.
The support team is comprised of four research software engineers based at DKRZ and the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC). Through support sprints lasting up to six months, the team provides assistance to German ESM developers for adapting ESM codes to modern high-performance computing (HPC) architectures and facilitating model coupling. Participation in the natESM project requires that all supported codes are open source. ESM developers can apply for support through a continuously open rolling call. Knowledge and insights gained during the support sprints are shared through dedicated workshops and targeted trainings.

Experience from the first three years of the project and an outlook to the hopefully upcoming second phase will be given.

Institutions

• Helmholtz Platform for Research Software Engineering - Preparatory Study