Multi-Dimensional Research Software Categorization
Hasselbring, Wilhelm and Druskat, Stephan and Bernoth, Jan and Betker, Philine and Felderer, Michael and Ferenz, Stephan and Hermann, Ben and Lamprecht, Anna-Lena and Linxweiler, Jan and Prat, Arnau and Rumpe, Bernhard and Schoening-Stierand, Katrin and Yang, Shinhyung
Computing in Science & Engineering
Research software has been categorized in different contexts to serve different goals. We start with a look at what research software is, before we discuss the purpose of research software categories. We propose a multi-dimensional categorization of research software. We present a template for characterizing such categories. As selected dimensions, we present our proposed role-based, readiness-based, developer-based, and dissemination-based categories. Since our work has been inspired by various previous efforts to categorize research software, we discuss them as related works. We characterize all these categories via the previously introduced template, to enable a systematic comparison. We report on the multi-dimensional categorization of selected research software examples.
2025
article
1-10
NFDI4Energy
National Research Data Infrastructure for the Interdisciplinary Energy System Research
National Research Data Infrastructure for the Interdisciplinary Energy System Research
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