ReSA engages multiple stakeholder groups across the international research software community to collaborate to achieve common goals. ReSA’s community encompasses many relevant research software organisations, initiatives, and communities that have a national or regional focus, disciplinary focus, or thematic focus (such as software citation or representation of RSEs).
Our stakeholders include:
- Funders (e.g., government, industry): Leadership of a research software funders community that has engaged 60+ funding organisations in its goal to address common challenges and better coordinate investment globally, including development of the Amsterdam Declaration on Funding Research Software Sustainability (ADORE.software).
- Policy makers (e.g., government, publishers, infrastructure providers, research organisations): Engaging in the drafting of key international policy documents from UNESCO and OECD, which has led to the inclusion and recognition of research software as a crucial part of open science.
- Research software engineering associations (e.g., regional, national): Supporting the RSE community as secretariat for the International Council of RSE Associations; compiling a list of resources on how to create an RSE group (within an organisation) or association (national, etc); and contributing to RSE research.
- Research software infrastructure providers (e.g,. for profit and not for profit): Co-chairing the Research Software Infrastructure Forum to consider how to collectively address common challenges.
- University consortia: Facilitating Policies in Research Organisations for Research Software (PRO4RS), a joint ReSA and Research Data Alliance (RDA) working group to help build our collection of institutional policies and consider how to better share these with interested stakeholders.
- Publishers (e.g., for profit and not for profit): Supporting the ReSA task force on code availability by publishers to engage publishers in the coordination needed to gain wide-scale cultural change.
- Thematic communities: Co-leading the drafting of the FAIR for Research Software Principles (FAIR4RS) which engaged 500+ community members; with outcomes documented in a two-year adoption update; and supporting ReSA task forces on Actionable Guidelines for Making Research Software FAIR, and FAIR4RS Review that aims to understand where the principles have and have not been adopted, and why.
- Research on research software: Co-authoring a position paper on the criticality of research software in AI-driven research.
