We are happy to announce our fourth online workshop on ‘Make Your Data FAIR,’ presented by Stefano Rapisarda from the Utrecht University Library. This interactive workshop will focus on software packaging, publication, visibility, and sitation.

Date: Tuesday, 26 November 2024, from 10:00 to 11:00 CET

Location: Virtual training course. Register here!

Speaker: Stefano Rapisarda, Utrecht University

Research fields: Specialists of all scientific fields

Target audience: All career stage scientists and professionals, students and PhD candidates.

FAIR software packaging, publication, visibility, and citation are essential elements in modern research, ensuring that software can be properly archived, discovered, and credited. Packaging software in a standardized and accessible way, alongside tools that facilitate proper citation, enhances its usability and the recognition of your work.

Software publication and citation are vital for the research community to give appropriate credit to software development, support collaboration, and make research tools more discoverable. Platforms like Zenodo and guidelines for software citation play a key role in making research software visible and reusable, following FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles.

In this workshop, you will explore the core concepts of FAIR software packaging and publication, and understand how to make your software visible and citable. In particular, you will learn:

• To understand the importance of software packaging and how it contributes to visibility and accessibility in research;
• To implement best practices in software citation to support open science and proper attribution;
• To make use of tools for software archiving and publication, ensuring that your software is findable and citable by the research community;
• To recognize how making software FAIR promotes reuse, transparency, and collaboration in the research ecosystem.

Join us for this hands-on workshop on improving the visibility, citation, and publication of research software through FAIR practices. This session will provide you with the knowledge and tools to make your software an integral part of open science and increase its impact on the research community. We look forward to your participation.