FAIR-USE4OS: Guidelines for Creating Impactful Open-Source Software

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02824v2
• Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 14:47:37 GMT
• Title: FAIR-USE4OS: Guidelines for Creating Impactful Open-Source Software
• Authors: Raphael Sonabend, Hugo Gruson, Leo Wolansky, Agnes Kiragga, Daniel S. Katz,
• Abstract summary: This paper extends the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) guidelines to provide criteria for assessing if software conforms to best practices in open source. The FAIR-USE4OS guidelines will allow funders and researchers to more effectively evaluate and plan open source software projects.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper extends the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) guidelines to provide criteria for assessing if software conforms to best practices in open source. By adding 'USE' (User-Centered, Sustainable, Equitable), software development can adhere to open source best practice by incorporating user-input early on, ensuring front-end designs are accessible to all possible stakeholders, and planning long-term sustainability alongside software design. The FAIR-USE4OS guidelines will allow funders and researchers to more effectively evaluate and plan open source software projects. There is good evidence of funders increasingly mandating that all funded research software is open source; however, even under the FAIR guidelines, this could simply mean software released on public repositories with a Zenodo DOI. By creating FAIR-USE software, best practice can be demonstrated from the very beginning of the design process and the software has the greatest chance of success by being impactful.

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