Myths and misconceptions about research software development in academia

Anne Fouilloux (Nordic-RSE)

The goal is to explore and discuss myths and misconceptions about research software development in academia and how these myths and misconceptions are hindering the organization and recognition of Research software Engineers in the Nordics. To initiate the discussion, we will provide a few examples such as:

  • Development of Research Software is not research.
  • Research software is any code that has been written by a scientist.
  • Anyone who has written (or even looked) at 3 lines of code is a qualified Research Software Engineer.
  • Software is data so FAIR software==FAIR data.