Introduction to the Software Sustainability Institute and a record of the discussion held at the JISC RI Software Sustainability Workshop on the 12th May 2010.
4. ENGAGE interviews Sustainability is not an issue for CS researchers, we want others to take the software over subject to IP issues Sustainability is a big issue, we are producing complex tools we want to use but it’s not clear how they’ll be sustained
Nevertheless static preservation is still necessary for reproducibility Many journals say code must be available but will it still run? E.g. Journal of Systems Chemistry e.g. Computer Physics Communications (ed. Stan Scott), where code is submitted with papers Some people looking at running things in VMs Domesday project 1986 – by 2002 it was dificult to keep drives working http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue36/tna/ But isn’t sustainability