{"id":400,"date":"2014-10-17T15:35:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T15:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2015-08-04T23:51:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T23:51:28","slug":"petition-to-raise-awareness-about-the-role-of-software-in-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/17\/petition-to-raise-awareness-about-the-role-of-software-in-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition to raise awareness about the role of software in research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d22r54gnmuhwmk.cloudfront.net\/photos\/4\/cb\/wj\/HzCBwJSLmZidOOD-556x313-noPad.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.software.ac.uk\/\">Software Sustainability Institute<\/a> in the UK has created an online petition to &#8220;everyone in the research community&#8221;, which states &#8220;<strong>We must accept that software is fundamental to research, or we will lose our ability to make groundbreaking discoveries<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. We want software to be treated as a valuable research object which befits the same level of investment and effort as any other aspect of the research infrastructure.<br \/>\n2. We want researchers to be encouraged to spend time learning about software, because the value of that knowledge is understood to improve research.<br \/>\n3. We want the people who develop research software to be recognised and rewarded for their invaluable contribution to research.<br \/>\n4. We want a research environment in which software-reliant projects are encouraged to hire software developers, rather than having to hide these valuable staff members in anonymous postdoctoral positions.<br \/>\n5. Ultimately, we want the research community to recognise software\u0092s fundamental role in research.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/everyone-in-the-research-community-we-must-accept-that-software-is-fundamental-to-research-or-we-will-lose-our-ability-to-make-groundbreaking-discoveries\">sign the petition at Change.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Software Sustainability Institute in the UK has created an online petition to &#8220;everyone in the research community&#8221;, which states &#8220;We must accept that software is fundamental to research, or we will lose our ability to make groundbreaking discoveries.&#8221; 1. We want software to be treated as a valuable research object which befits the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahay.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}