HEP Software Foundation Community White Paper Working Group - Data and Software Preservation to Enable Reuse
M. D. Hildreth, A. Boehnlein, K. Cranmer, S. Dallmeier, R., Gardner, T. Hacker, L. Heinrich, I. Jimenez, M. Kane, D. S., Katz, T. Malik, C. Maltzahn, M. Neubauer, S. Neubert, Jim, Pivarski, E. Sexton, J. Shiers, T. Simko, S. Smith, D. South, and A. Verbytskyi, G. Watts
TL;DR
This paper reviews the current state and future goals of data and software preservation in high energy physics to facilitate reuse of analyses and software, emphasizing infrastructure, best practices, and ongoing developments.
Contribution
It presents a comprehensive overview of preservation practices and proposes research and development goals to enhance reuse in high energy physics.
Findings
Current preservation infrastructure and practices analyzed
Research and development goals outlined for software reuse
Emphasis on enabling reuse of analyses and production software
Abstract
In this chapter of the High Energy Physics Software Foundation Community Whitepaper, we discuss the current state of infrastructure, best practices, and ongoing developments in the area of data and software preservation in high energy physics. A re-framing of the motivation for preservation to enable re-use is presented. A series of research and development goals in software and other cyberinfrastructure that will aid in the enabling of reuse of particle physics analyses and production software are presented and discussed.
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Data Storage Technologies · Scientific Computing and Data Management · Research Data Management Practices