Exchanging Best Practices and Tools for Supporting Computational and Data-Intensive Research, The Xpert Network

TL;DR

This paper introduces the Xpert Network, a community platform for professionals supporting computational and data-intensive research, sharing best practices and tools to enhance productivity and collaboration.

Contribution

It presents a set of best practices and tools tailored for CDI research support and describes the Xpert Network initiative fostering knowledge exchange among professionals.

Findings

Increased collaboration and knowledge sharing among CDI support professionals.

Improved productivity and efficiency in CDI research projects.

Enhanced coordination within the scientific community using computational methods.

Abstract

We present best practices and tools for professionals who support computational and data intensive (CDI) research projects. The practices resulted from an initiative that brings together national projects and university teams that include individual or groups of such professionals. We focus particularly on practices that differ from those in a general software engineering context. The paper also describes the initiative , the Xpert Network , where participants exchange successes, challenges, and general information about their activities, leading to increased productivity, efficiency, and coordination in the ever growing community of scientists that use computational and data-intensive research methods.