Software in Science: a Report of Outcomes of the 2014 National Science Foundation Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) Meeting

<p>The second annual NSF Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) PI meeting took place in Arlington, VA February 24-25, 2014. It was hosted by Beth Plale, Indiana University; Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame; and Matt Jones, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.</p><p>This report captures the challenges and outcomes emerging from the meeting over the four topic areas discussed i) Attribution and Citation, ii) Reproducibility, Reusability, and Preservation, iii) Project/Software Sustainability, and iv) Career Paths. The report is an academic synthesis with credit to all the participants and to the notetakers who took prodigious notes and synthesized the results upon which the conclusions of this report are derived.