The growing digitization and networking process within our society has a large influence on all aspects of everyday life. Large amounts of data are being produced permanently, and when these are analyzed and interlinked they have the potential to create new knowledge and intelligent solutions for economy and society. Big Data can make important contributions to the technical progress in our societal key sectors and help shape business. What is needed are innovative technologies, strategies and competencies for the beneficial use of Big Data to address societal needs.
Softwareentwicklung ist ein elementarer, unverzichtbarer Bestandteil der Forschungstätigkeit. Wissenschaftliche Software unterstützt zunehmend die Gewinnung, Verarbeitung und Auswertung von empirischen Daten, aber auch die Modellierung und Simulation von komplexen Prozessen. Damit hat Software einen maßgeblichen Einfluss auf die Qualität der erzielten Forschungsergebnisse. Das Britische Software Sustainability Institut (SSI) hat dafür den Slogan “Better Software - Better Research” geprägt.
The Journal of Open Research Software (JORS) features peer reviewed Software Metapapers describing research software with high reuse potential. We are working with a number of specialist and institutional repositories to ensure that the associated software is professionally archived, preserved, and is openly available. Equally importantly, the software and the papers will be citable, and reuse will be tracked.
JORS also publishes full-length research papers that cover different aspects of creating, maintaining and evaluating open source research software. The aim of the section is to promote the dissemination of best practice and experience related to the development and maintenance of reusable, sustainable research software.
The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is an academic journal with a formal peer review process that is designed to improve the quality of the software submitted. Upon acceptance into JOSS, a CrossRef DOI is minted and we list your paper on the JOSS website.
Please include the acknowledgement in publications for those who are funded by our Cluster of Excellence:
Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy - EXC 2075 - 390740016
