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Enjoyed RSECon in the past? Never been but want to find out what all the fuss is about?

We are looking for volunteers to join our team and help us deliver the ninth annual RSECon25 which will be held in Warwick from 9th-11th September 2025.

Find out more and apply before midnight 20th June 2025 by visiting rsecon25.society-rse.org/call-

RSECon25Call for Volunteers - RSECon25Call for volunteers 9 – 11 September 2025, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Do you want to help make RSECon25 happen? We are looking for volunteers to join our team and help us deliver the ninth annual conference for Research Software Engineering! The conference is taking place online and in-person at the University of Warwick from the 9th to 11th September 2025. What will I do? We are recruiting in-person and remote volunteers who will participate in a wide range of tasks to help us deliver a successful conference. Primarily, you’ll act as a first point of contact should any delegates need assistance during the conference, making sure everyone feels welcome and valued. To learn more about the role and related tasks, please see our Volunteer Role Description. What skills, experience and attributes do I need?  We ask that you are friendly and enthusiastic about creating a warm and welcoming environment for a successful conference. You should also be willing to work as part of a team. If you have specific skills and experience which you think might be particularly useful, for example you have lots of experience using AV hardware, then we would love to hear about this when you apply.  We will do our best to align you with a volunteer role that suits you. What benefits do I get from volunteering?  I’m interested, what’s my next step? To apply to join the volunteer team, please fill in this form. Applications will close at 23:59 BST on the 20th of June and successful applicants will be informed by 23:59 BST on the 4th of July. If you have any questions about RSECon25, please email us at rsecon-volunteer@society-rse.org.

RSECon25 needs your help. Submissions don't review themselves and we are looking for volunteers to help review and sift through them to decide what to include in the programme.

Call for reviewers is now open, find out more and sign up at rsecon25.society-rse.org/call-

RSECon25Call For Reviewers - RSECon25Call for reviewers Reviewers play a crucial role in building the conference programme. Becoming a reviewer is a great way to: The assessments provided by reviewers are invaluable to the conference programme team. Each year we receive a large number of submissions and we want to give all of them the attention they deserve. We continue to strive for a large team of reviewers that represents the rich diversity of skills, experience levels and career stages in the research software community. This will allow us to build a conference programme that reflects the real interests of our community. Whatever your previous experience in performing peer review, please consider signing up as a reviewer for RSECon25, and contributing a few hours to help. As a reviewer, you will receive a combination of submissions for talks, panels, workshops, walkthroughs and/or posters. Reviews can be completed in your own time, through a simple online platform. Each submission will contain an abstract and several additional fields related to their submission type, and we will give you guidance to help you reach a decision.  We expect each abstract you are assigned to take between 5-15 minutes to review. This is a double blind process; you will not see author details and authors will not see your identity. We are aware that circumstances (e.g. prominent software/projects) may limit author anonymity, therefore if you feel unable to complete an impartial review, we can reallocate the submission. A minimum of two reviewers will be assigned per submission. The combination of your decision with that of your co-reviewer/s will inform the programme committee’s selection of submissions that are accepted for the conference. We fully expect to see divergence between reviewers; opinions from all members of the community are valid and welcome. This year, we want to make this process as transparent as possible and encourage more of you to get involved! On April 16th  we are hosting a webinar to outline the submission and review processes. During the webinar, we will show you the platform we are using to handle submissions (Oxford Abstracts), and you will have the opportunity to ask questions. If you would like to come to the webinar, register your details to receive the Zoom joining instructions. A recording of the webinar will be made available after the event. Attendance is optional. Responsibilities: In summary, for the review process, we (conference committee) have the following responsibilities to you (reviewer): As a reviewer: The call will close at 23:59 BST on Tuesday May 6th. As always, if you have any questions about signing up to review, please reach out to us at rsecon25-programme-team@society-rse.org.  Thank you for considering becoming a reviewer! RSECon25 Programme Team.

Wir lieben unbefristete Stellen! Die Marburger offensichtlich auch, denn es gibt hier jetzt eine spannende Stelle: Software-Engineer im Bereich Digitales Kulturerbe (#unbefristet, , Vollzeit, E13) am Deutschen Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg an der Philipps-Universität Marburg: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de

stellenangebote.uni-marburg.deSoftware-Engineer im Bereich Digitales Kulturerbe

It is Today! 🎉 🎉
The call for the Spanish Champions Program 2025 edition is open. In this blogspot you have all the details to participate:

📝 ropensci.org/blog/2025/03/10/c

We have also scheduled an event with champions and mentors who will share their experiences in previous cohorts for Wednesday, 12/03.

📹 ropensci.org/es/commcalls/cham

Share this info with your community. Help us to be many more!

¡Llegó el día! 🎉 🎉
Se abre el llamado al programa de campeon(a|e)s en español edición 2025. En este blogspot tenes todos los detalles para participar:

📝 ropensci.org/es/blog/2025/03/1

Y agenda el miércoles 12/03 que tendremos una evento con campeones y mentores que contarán su experienca en cohortes anteriores.

📹 ropensci.org/es/commcalls/cham

Compartí esta info con tu comunidad. Ayudanos a ser muchas mas personas.

We are #hiring! We are seeking a skilled part-time research software engineer to provide leadership on the implementation of an open software and data infrastructure in support of the new EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Diversity in Data Visualization (DIVERSE CDT).

warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/app

warwick-careers.tal.netQuick Check Needed

🤩 Faltan 3 días para el inicio de nuestro programa de campeon(a|e)s.

🌎 En esta cohorte es fundamental que sean de América Latina y que tengan un buen manejo oral y escrito de la lengua española.

📦 🔍 Quienes participen van a tener que desarrollar un paquete de R o participar de la revision de software por pares revisando un paquete o enviando su paquete a revision.

🗒️ Presta atención a nuestro blog del Lunes 10 de Marzo con todos los detalles para que puedas participar.

We are pleased to announce that RSECon25 Call for Submissions opens today.🎉

There are two themes, "RSE and Research Excellence" and "RSE as Digital Research Infrastructure " and we welcome submissions for talks, walkthroughs, interactive sessions, skills and community workshops, hackathons, Birds of a Feather and Posters.

All you need to know rsecon25.society-rse.org/call-

Deadline for submissions is 2025-04-25

RSECon25 takes place 9-11th Sept 2025 in Warwick

RSECon25Call for Submissions - RSECon25Call for submissions RSECon25 will be accepting a wide variety of formats to contribute to our programme. This year we want to work our two themes into as many of the talks, interactive sessions and posters as possible. Abstracts will be reviewed with this in mind so make sure you include how the topic relates. The deadline for submissions is 23:59 BST on 25 April 2025. This year we encourage niche technical submissions though to general topics; we can cater talks to audiences from 5 to 500, and interactive content up to 100. We welcome small intensive workshops or deep dive talks, to broad general interest talks and community Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions. If you have something interesting to say, come and say it. Our themes we would like you to consider are: For more information please see our Vision Statement. Ways to contribute If you have been to RSECon before you will be familiar with our formats but do read the following refresher of the formats for 2025 and see the links for a deeper dive into the format particulars and how to submit. Detailed information about writing a submission and submissions links can be found here: Presenter led: Call for talks and walkthroughs Interactive Sessions: Call for workshops, hackathons and BoF Posters: Call for posters Talks and walkthroughs Come and share your knowledge and experience with our community and be ready to answer questions from in the room and online. On the theme of RSE and Research Excellence: These sessions are intended to provide a platform for RSEs to showcase their contribution to research excellence. We want to hear from all levels and career stages. You don’t need to be the national leader in a topic but show how your application of the tool demonstrates the best of RSE when applied to a topic to enable research excellence. On the theme of RSE contribution to DRI: UKRI include ‘people: the users, and the experts who develop and maintain these powerful resources’ in their building blocks of their DRI. The users and more importantly experts include RSEs, we are in many ways responsible for the development of scientific software. We encourage any and all talks that spotlight the various ways that RSE contribute to the DRI landscape.  Take a look at some questions we can ask ourselves to frame our work in these themes and give you a starting point for developing your submission. Interactive sessions, workshops, hackathons and Birds of a Feather Interactive sessions are a key part of RSECon. People should expect to develop skills, pick up new skills, and collaborate with members of their communities. Workshops should reflect this year’s themes, upskilling RSEs with new technical skills to contribute to their ongoing development or better contribute to DRI; a community theme that reflects how your community contributes to Research Excellence or Digital Research Infrastructure and thinking about how and where you can influence the DRI landscape; or a hackathon aimed at working collaboratively on something that enables research excellence or is DRI. Skills workshops: Community Workshops: Posters RSECon25 will have posters and a poster reception. A poster submission is unique as it allows the audience to digest the information at their own pace. You can present detailed technical information or striking graphics and let our attendees get to know your work. At the reception you will have the opportunity to talk to people about your poster and answer questions in an informal setting. As in previous years there will be a poster competition but this year we are updating the categories, see the specific poster page for more information. Other formats If you have a suggestion for another format that isn’t listed here then please get in touch using the following form well in advance of the submission deadline. We will ask you to justify why you want to use another format and what you think it will bring to the conference. If we agree and it can be worked into the program logistically then we will add it to the abstracts to review. We will particularly welcome non-standard formats if you can show how they will help highlight our themes. Click here for the non-standard submission request form. Finally We have given many examples of how we interpret our themes but we are open to being surprised by your takes on these topics. If you want to talk your submissions over or ask any questions please reach out on Slack (to Pip Grylls) or by Email and we will be happy to offer any guidance we can. As always your submissions will be reviewed by the community, you may be asked to modify your submission type depending on reviewer feedback or length depending on the number of submissions we get. We are not filling X% of sessions as talks or Y% must be on this theme, so simply submit your best contributions. We will look for the highest quality and select an engaging mix to make this the best conference yet.
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Everyone wants the free software, the 25% time investment. Few want (to pay for) the long-term maintenance.

This technological debt from the maintenance perspective is especially acute in research software engineering as there is little or no monetary incentive.

Researchers, labs and granting agencies should step up long-term software maintenance commitments.

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Florian Thiery @fthierygeo gives a talk on "Research Squirrel Engineers: How an independent RSE-driven network may help the NFDI" at #deRSE25 at @KIT_Karlsruhe which also tackles @NFDI #Base4NFDI - Basic Services for the NFDI topics on Research Software Engineering within the #RDM and #CAA_DE community of computational archaeology.

More informations here: zenodo.org/records/14914288.

ZenodoResearch Squirrel Engineers - How an independent RSE-driven network may help the NFDIThe comprehensible/collaborative creation and FAIRification of research data is becoming increasingly important in the Citizen Science community to become part of an interdisciplinary knowledge graph and enrich the already interconnected data network with qualified data. Only in this way can this data be linked to other data and actively integrated into international initiatives (e.g. NFDI) and community hubs (e.g. Wikidata, FactGrid, Semantic Kompakkt, OpenStreetMap). Unfortunately, open-source (FOSS) research and FAIRification tools are often unavailable. However, these, in combination with Linked Open Data projects as demonstrators, can be created and curated by community and voluntary initiatives such as the Research Squirrel Engineers Network. This paper presents the Research Squirrel Engineers Network initiative, three research and FAIRification tools, and three Research Squirrels projects, as well as how Research Software Engineering may help make it even more helpful for the NFDI. These can serve as digital services for digital data management in archaeology and so be part of substantial interdisciplinary initiatives such as the NFDI. The paper, therefore, also presents the aims, benefits and implementation of the squirrel tools. The Research Squirrel Engineers Network (founded in 2019 to implement the SPARQL Unicorn) is a loose association of Linked Open Data/Wikidata enthusiasts, Research Software Engineers and Citizen Scientists focusing on computational archaeology, digital humanities and geoinformatics. The members develop and maintain research and FAIRification tools and implement them in concrete projects. A FAIRification tool for digital data management is the SPARQL Unicorn and its implementation for QGIS. The "SPARQLing Unicorn QGIS Plugin" allows sending linked data queries in (Geo)SPARQL to triple stores and prepares the results for the geo-community in QGIS. It currently offers three main functions: (A) Simplified querying of Semantic Web data sources, (B) Enrichment of geodata, and (C) Transformation of QGIS vector layers to RDF. In addition, the SPARQL Unicorn Ontology Documentation Tool enables the automated creation of HTML pages of Linked Open Data publications, e.g. via GitHub Action. One example are Irish Ogham sites on the Dingle Peninsula or data from Sophie C. Schmidt's dissertation project on "Brandenburg 5,000 BC" by converting a CIDOC CRM data model into Linked Open Data and visualising it as HTML with the help of SPARQL Unicorn. Another service is the "Fuzzy Spatial Locations Ontology", in which georeferencing's vagueness, uncertainties and ambiguities are made FAIR and comprehensible with the help of semantics and an ontology (based on PROV-O). An example of this is the modelling of sites of the eruption of the Campanian Ignimbrite in the Phlegraean Fields (39,940 yr b2k ± 150 years), which often correspond to archaeological sites, e.g. the Toplitsa Cave in Bulgaria. The "Squirrel Papers" complement the services to create a platform for publishing working papers, data, software, presentation slides and posters for citation. These services are accompanied by LOD / Wikidata / Open Street Map and Wikimedia Commons projects, such as Linked Open Ogham, Holy Wells in Ireland, or Linked Reindeers, where Scripts (primarily written in Python) help transform the tabular data into RDF or Quick Statements.
#NFDIrocks#RSE#LOD

🚀 Train-the-Trainer (TTT) – March 2025 Edition! 🚀

Want to improve your teaching skills & join a global community of DRA trainers? Our interactive TTT program helps you:
✅ Learn evidence-based training methods
✅ Build confidence in teaching & course design
✅ Connect with the DRA trainer network

📅 Starts March 10 | Apply by Feb 23
🔗 events.digital-research.academ

Join us & level up your training game! 🚀
#TrainTheTrainer #OpenScience #RSE #RDM