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"Dependency" by XKCD (which if you aren't following regularly, you should!) https://xkcd. com/2347/ (CC BY-NC 2.
5) ## To develop practices, norms and institutions that can better promote the development and adoption of discovery-enhancing software. [](https://sloan. org/programs/digital-technology/better-software-for-science) Software is increasingly central to scientific research, but academia often fails to leverage best practices for software engineering from industry or elsewhere.
To realize the full potential of software in advancing discovery—whether in data science, computational modeling, or machine learning—this program aims to adapt and extend approaches from other contexts into academic software development while recognizing the unique workflows and incentives of the research enterprise.
Rather than funding individual scientific software development projects, grants in this area focus mainly on tooling, institutions, economic models, and incentives around the production, maintenance, and adoption of research software. [](https://sloan.
org/programs/digital-technology/better-software-for-science) Current areas of focus include: ### Open Source in Research Open source is much more than a licensing strategy, it is a set of community practices that enable the distributed production and maintenance of software that are not widely adopted in the research enterprise.
The Better Software for Science program seeks opportunities to better understand and align best practices in open source with academic research, with a particular eye toward the health and maintenance of digital infrastructural dependencies upon which computational research relies.
### Software Publication & Archiving Software is not well-integrated into the scholarly communication system; scientific software is often not cited or well-archived, and can require substantial work to reuse.
The Better Software for Science program seeks opportunities to elevate software as a first-order research product as well as efforts that aim to improve the linkages between software and other research outputs such as articles, preprints or data. ### Career Paths and Incentives The work of building and maintaining research software is often undervalued and marginalized in the research enterprise.
The Better Software for Science program seeks opportunities to foreground and institutionalize the individuals and communities who are essential to the utility and durability of software in science, with particular attention to the roles of research software engineer, data scientist, and software curator. [](https://sloan.
org/programs/digital-technology/better-software-for-science) * ##### University of California, Santa Cruz $49,155 To support a CURIOSS workshop for community building amongst Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) Learn More * ##### Superbloom Design $50,000 To partially support a program for maintainers of open source software to build capacity for better security Learn More * ##### Boston University $248,856 To develop a framework, curated repository of open source tools, and training program to streamline the process of deploying RAG-based generative AI solutions in academic settings Learn More * ##### Arizona State University $108,519 To support the Second Scientific Software Registries and Repositories Collaboration Workshop Learn More * ##### NumFOCUS $24,426 To partially support the 2024 DISC Unconference Learn More * ##### Code for Science and Society $149,969 To build a comprehensive, shared understanding of the current state of the community and business/operations infrastructure for research software Learn More [](https://sloan.
org/programs/digital-technology/better-software-for-science) * ##### Supported platforms Platforms, protocols, and products supported through the Foundation's grantmaking Learn more [](https://sloan. org/programs/digital-technology/better-software-for-science) Interested grantseekers should send a two-page letter of inquiry to technology@sloan. org.
[](https://sloan. org/programs/digital-technology/better-software-for-science) * Sonali Chadha Program Coordinator Better Software for Science /programs/digital-technology/better-software-for-science Completed XKCD info "Dependency" by XKCD (which if you aren't following regularly, you should!) https://xkcd.
com/2347/ (CC BY-NC 2. 5) Program Goal To develop practices, norms and institutions that can better promote the development and adoption of discovery-enhancing software.
The Issue Software is increasingly central to scienti… * Click to expand this navigation menu Research * History of Science and Technology * Sloan Digital Sky Survey * Small-Scale Fundamental Physics * Click to expand this navigation menu Technology * Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology * Scientific Collaboration * Click to expand this navigation menu Public Understanding * Click to expand this navigation menu Completed Programs * Anytime, Anyplace Learning * Better Software for Science * Chemistry of Indoor Environments * Data & Computational Research * Deep Carbon Observatory * Information about Careers in Science and Technology * Making Municipal Governments More Responsive * Microbiology of the Built Environment * Professional Science Master's Degree * Scholarly Communication * Universal Access to Knowledge * Workplace, Workforce, and Working Families Sloan Research Fellowships * Commitment to Opportunity for All * Click to expand this navigation menu Press Room
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