Sustaining Software as a Key Element of Cyberinfrastructure: Submission in Response to NSF CI 2030 Request for Information

Daniel S. Katz; Robert Haines; Kathryn Huff; Frank Löffler; Marlon Pierce; Michael Heroux; Kyle Niemeyer; Sandra Gesing; Jeffrey Carver; Greg Wilson

Sustaining Software as a Key Element of Cyberinfrastructure: Submission in Response to NSF CI 2030 Request for Information

Daniel S. Katz, Robert Haines, Kathryn Huff, Frank Löffler, Marlon Pierce, Michael Heroux, Kyle Niemeyer, Sandra Gesing, Jeffrey Carver, Greg Wilson

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Research across all fields is increasingly digital, and increasingly dependent on software. However, software must be continually maintained for it to continue to function. This is part of the meaning of sustainability: software is sustainable if it will continue to be available in the future, on new platforms, and meet new needs. But sustainability doesn’t happen automatically; it must be encouraged, enabled, planned, and enacted. And for both individual projects and the overall software environment, NSF can and should help make this happen.

Original language	English
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Publication status	Published - 5 Apr 2017

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