PRESOFT, Preservation for REsearch SOFTware

Research Software and Software Management Plans

PRESOFT at LIGM and the University Gustave Eiffel since February 2023

T. Gomez-Diaz has launched a service at the LIGM to realise Software Management Plans for Research Software produced at the Laboratoire d'informatique Gaspard-Monge (LIGM) in December 2023. She is also providing the support for the PRESOFT model available at DMP OPIDoR.

Contact: presoft _@_ univ-eiffel.fr
Citation form: Teresa Gomez-Diaz, Geneviève Romier, (2018). Research Software Management Plan template. PRESOFT project: Preservation for REsearch SOFTware (V3.2). Zenodo Preprint. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1405614
A Zenodo community: Research Software Management Plans at https://zenodo.org/communities/rsmps/.

Formation "Les Plans de Gestion des Logiciels de la Recherche" (mai 2024)

A training session of one day and a half has been organised at the University Gustave Eiffel, est of Paris, (in French) see Formation "Les Plans de Gestion des Logiciels de la Recherche" (23-24 mai 2024, Université Gustave Eiffel).
You can find links to the presentations' support, the document Questions et Réponses sur le Modèle PRESOFT et les Plans de Gestion des Logiciels de la Recherche, and the podcast Code for Thougt, [EN] Planning your research software - a workshop in Paris réalisé par Peter Schmidt.

Projet PRESOFT (2017-2018)

PRESOFT stands for Preservation for REsearch SOFTware, and was a CNRS IN2P3 funded project (2017-2018) with the participation of CC-IN2P3, IdGC and LIGM.

The main output of this project is the PRESOFT Software Management Plan template, a bilingual document [FR/EN].

Version 3.2, 4 avril 2018 :
- in DMP OPIDoR at CNRS/INIST, as annonced in DMP OPIDoR, in April 2018
- in formats: PDF, ODT
- in HAL
- in Zenodo
Version 3.1, 22 janvier 2018 : PDF et ODT

Présentation aux Journées Mathrice, mars 2019.
Plans de gestion de logiciel et assurance qualité logiciel, les apports de PRESOFT. https://jt-aql.sciencesconf.org/data/program/PRESOFT_qualite_en_recherche2019v1_GR.pdf,
Présentation au Séminaire IN2P3 (mai 2018) (webcast).
PRESOFT: Preservation for REsearch SOFTware, Poster JDEV 2017.
OLD web page on France Grilles: [FR], [EN].

Some examples

Monasse, P. (2024). Research Software Management Plan V1.1 for OpenMVG (V1.1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12704179
Bigi, B. (2024). Research Software Management Plan for SPPAS - the automatic annotation and analyses of speech. DMP OPIDoR. https://dmp.opidor.fr/public_plans?page=1&search=Bigi
https://dmp.opidor.fr/public_plans?page=1&search=presoft

References. PRESOFT related works on Research Software

Patrimoine logiciel d’un laboratoire, Projet PLUME (2006-2013) https://zenodo.org/communities/plume-patrimoine-logiciel-laboratoire/about.
Teresa Gomez-Diaz, (2014). Free software, Open source software, licenses. A short presentation including a procedure for research software and data dissemination, Zenodo Preprint, http://zenodo.org/record/11709/.
Presented at the Workshop on open licenses: Data licencing and policies, EGI Conference 2015, Lisbon, May 2015 https://indico.egi.eu/event/2452/sessions/1522/#20150520
Teresa Gomez-Diaz, (2015). Article vs. Logiciel : questions juridiques et de politique scientiﬁque dans la production de logiciels, Société Informatique de France, https://zenodo.org/record/18993
Teresa Gomez-Diaz, Tomas Recio (2019). On the evaluation of research software: the CDUR procedure [version 2; peer review: 2 approved], F1000Research, Research on Research, https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.19994.2
Peter Schmidt (2022). Code for Thought podcast. Open Science and Research Software https://codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/10822132-open-science-and-research-software
Teresa Gomez-Diaz (juin 2024). Les logiciels de la recherche et leurs licences : trois visions sur un objet, Cours Université Gustave Eiffel, https://hal.science/hal-02434287v3
Teresa Gomez-Diaz, Tomas Recio (november 2024). The Conundrum Challenges for Research Software in Open Science, Computers 2024, 13(11), 302; https://doi.org/10.3390/computers13110302

References. Other works on Software Management Plans

The Software Sustainability Institute. (2018). Checklist for a Software Management Plan (1.0). Zenodo Preprint. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2159713. Version 0.1 of 2016 is available at https://zenodo.org/records/1422657.
See also Software Management Plans at the Software Sustainability Institute (UK).
This model is also available at DMP OPIDoR: https://dmp.opidor.fr/public_templates?page=1&search=SSI+software.
Course materials for the SSI's Introduction to Software Management Plans workshop (October 2021) https://github.com/softwaresaved/introduction-to-software-management-plans.
Renato Alves, Dimitrios Bampalikis, Leyla Jael Castro, José María Fernández González, Jennifer Harrow, Mateusz Kuzak, Eva Martin, Fotis E. Psomopoulos, and Allegra Via (2021). ELIXIR Software Management Plan for Life Sciences. BioHackrXiv Preprint. https://doi.org/10.37044/osf.io/k8znb.
A Software Management Plan Service is also available at the Max Planck Digital Library, see https://rdmo.mpdl.mpg.de/, https://github.com/rdmorganiser/rdmo-catalog/blob/master/rdmorganiser/questions/SMP_Readme.md and the presentation of Yves Vincent Grossmann https://zenodo.org/records/8087357/files/P2_RDMO_SMP.pdf?download=1.
Giraldo, O., Cardoso, J., Martin del Pico, E., Gaignard, A., Geist, L., Grossmann, Y. V., Psomopoulos, F., Papadopoulou, E., Solanki, D., & Castro, L. J. (2023). Workshop machine-actionable Software Management Plans. Zenodo Preprint. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8087357.
Martinez-Ortiz, C., Martinez Lavanchy, P., Sesink, L., Olivier, B. G., Meakin, J., de Jong, M., Cruz, M. (2023). Practical guide to Software Management Plans (1.1). Zenodo Preprint. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7589725.
French version. Guide pratique des Plans de Gestion Logicielle https://zenodo-org.translate.goog/records/7589725?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=fr&_x_tr_hl=fr&_x_tr_pto=sc.
Michael Franke, Yves Vincent Grossmann, Sustainable Research Software Through Software Management Plans, Poster, 1st Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (2023), Karlsruhe https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-9418-1
Olga Giraldo, Danilo Dessi, Stefan Dietze, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Leyla Jael Castro (2023), Machine-Actionable Metadata for Software and Software Management Plans for NFDI https://doi.org/10.52825/cordi.v1i.279
Marek Suchánek, Vojtěch Knaisl, Renato Alves, Leyla Jael Castro, Fotis Psomopoulos, Eva Martin del Pico (2023). Building Towards a Machine-Actionable Software Management Plan: A BioHackathon Europe 2023 Report, Preprint published by BioHackrXiv.org, https://doi.org/10.37044/osf.io/t94g8
Alison Specht, Margaret O'Brien, Rorie Edmunds, Pedro Corrêa, Romain David, Laurence Mabile, Jeaneth Machicao, Yasuhiro Murayama, Shelley Stall (2023). The Value of a Data and Digital Object Management Plan (D(DO)MP) in Fostering Sharing Practices in a Multidisciplinary Multinational Project. Data Science Journal, Vol 22, https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2023-038
Hasler, T., Peters-Kottig, W. and Schlösser, F. (2023) Software management plan developed in HPO-Navi. Zuse Insitute Berlin. https://doi.org/10.12752/9250
Castro, L. J., Gonzalez, E., Grossmann, Y. V., Solanki, D., & Utrilla, C. (2023). Metadata crosswalks for software management plans at NFDI4DS hackathon maSMP 2023 [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10275895
Michael Franke, Yves Vincent Grossmann, (2024), Software Management Plans as a Path for Sustainable and Reproducible Research Software – Potentials, Discussions and Obstacles in Dealing with Code in Science. Poster, 4th conference for Research Software Engineering in Germany, https://events.hifis.net/event/994/contributions/7836/, https://pure.mpg.de/pubman/faces/ViewItemOverviewPage.jsp?itemId=item_3562663_4
Yves Vincent Grossmann, Giacomo Lanza, Katarzyna Biernacka, Tim Hasler, Kerstin Helbig (2024), Software Management Plans – Current Concepts, Tools, and Application. Data Science Journal, 23: 43, 1–16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2024-043

References. Policies on Software Management Plans

Science Europe, Developing and Aligning Policies on Research Software: Recommendations for RFOs and RPOs, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13740998,
V1September 2024, PDF-v1
V1-1December 2024 PDF-v1-1
NASA Science Mission Directorate, Open-Source Science Guidance (2025). PDF
UNESCO - Open Hidrology, N. Dogulu, K. Verbist, A. Mertens (2024). Open Hydrology, UNESCO. PDF