Cancelled: CANARIE Info Session - Request for Feedback - Oct. 13

Date: Thursday, October 13th (12pm - 1pm)
Location: Room 301, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (Lillooet Room) 

Please note that this event has been cancelled. 

CANARIE is looking for feedback from researchers on its Research Software Program to make sure the program meets the needs of Canadian researchers. CANARIE is exploring ways to evolve the program to support more platform-level reuse, including cross-discipline re-use.

Please join us for an information session hosted at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (Lillooet Room – 301) on Thursday, October 13th at 12pm to provide feedback on the Research Software Program.  A Light lunch will be provided.  Some points for discussion will include:

Direct Platform Re-use Model

• CANARIE would fund those with access to software research platforms to make those platforms re-useable by others.
• Who would contribute a re-useable platform? Would it make more sense for faculty from Computer Science/Software Engineering departments to maintain research platforms on behalf of others?
• What would be the incentive(s) for platform contributors?
• How would potential new users be identified?

Research Software Institute Model

• CANARIE funds a team of research software experts to work with researchers developing custom software.
• Software re-use would be accomplished through the knowledge of different projects gained by this team.
• A combination? Other models?

What is CANARIE? 

CANARIE operates and evolves the national backbone of Canada’s ultra-high-speed National Research and Education Network (NREN), connecting to 12 provincial and territorial partner networks. This world-class 10 gigabit per second network is critical infrastructure supporting today’s data-intensive, globally collaborative research.

Beyond the network, CANARIE funds and promotes reusable research software tools to accelerate scientific discovery. CANARIE also supports Research Data Canada as it leads national research data management initiatives, and through the Canadian Access Federation, provides identity management services that enable secure, ubiquitous connectivity and content access to the academic community.

For more information, please contact Kamil Somaratne. 

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