Center for Open-Source Research Software Stewardship and Advancement (CORSA)
CORSA is a community of practice dedicated to software sustainability for scientific and research software projects. Our mission is to provide a neutral and independent platform where projects can collaborate effectively, fostering excellence and innovation within the scientific and research software communities.
Vision
The Center for Open-Source Research Software Stewardship and Advancement (CORSA) serves as a community of practice that enables pathways for open-source scientific software projects to avail themselves of resources for long-term growth, stewardship, advancement, and innovation.
Mission
To promote sustainable practices in the research software community and support the development, maintenance, and long-term viability of research software.
Community
Our community comprises any open source scientific and research software projects interested in sustainablity and pathways to foundations. We are founding members of the Consortium for the Advancement of Scientific Software (CASS).
Key Components
- Pathways to Foundations: Assisting the research software ecosystem to avail the resources and community structure of open source software foundations.
- NumFOCUS - How to Apply and Join
- High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) - How to Apply and Join
- Foundations Forum
- Benefits of joining a foundation
- Information on other foundations (e.g., Apache Software Foundation) coming next.
- Software Sustainability Metrics: Curating metrics that enable software projects to better understand and improve their sustainability. As part of this we identify software sustainability metrics frameworks and a set of tools that can enable projects to collect and analyze metrics specific to their software.
Benefits for Projects
- Comprehensive support for sustainable research software development
- Improved software sustainability and maintainability
- Enhanced skills and knowledge through education and training
- Guidance and consultation on sustainability practices
- Access to funding opportunities
Benefits for Funding Entities
- Alignment with sustainable development goals
- Increased impact of funding through collaboration
- Streamlined project selection based on sustainability criteria
- Diverse funding opportunities
- Collaboration and knowledge sharing within the research software community
Open Source Software Funding Opportunities
- The NIH has current open funding opportunities for Building Sustainable Software Tools for Open Science and NIH Research Software Engineer (RSE) Award These are two-year awards with a maximum funding of $300K per award. The RSE award application must also include a letter of support from an NIH-funded project PI.
- The NSF has current open funding opportunities for the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot
- The Research Software Alliance (ReSA) maintains a list of funding opportunities for research software projects.
Leadership Team
| Greg Watson | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Addi Thakur Malviya | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Elaine M. Raybourn | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Daniel S. Katz | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign |
| Bill Hoffman | Kitware, Inc. |
| Dana Robinson | The HDF Group |
Upcoming Activities
Pathway to Foundations 1:1 discussions at US-RSE’24. Contact CORSA by emailing PI Greg Watson to set up a discussion.
Past Activities
- NLIT’24 Summit: Effective Metrics for Measuring and Enhancing Sustainability in Scientific Software (slides) April 2024
- Foundations Forum Kick-off, Community BOF Days June 11, 2024 (slides)
- PASC24 Minisymposiums June 2024
- IEEE eScience Workshop: Sustainable Project Pathways for HPC Software September 2024
Resources
- Best Practices
- Foundations
- Benefits of joining a foundation
- NumFOCUS - How to Apply and Join
- High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) - How to Apply and Join
- Information on other foundations (e.g., Apache Software Foundation) coming next
- Working Groups