May 10, 2017

10:00 - 11:00 Welcome coffee and registration

11:00 - 11:15 Conference opening and welcome addresses

• Barbara Hartung (Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, Germany)
• Irina Sens (Interim Director of the Technische Informationsbibliothek [TIB] – German National Library of Science and Technology, Germany)

• Wolfgang Nejdl (Founding Director and Head of the L3S Research Center / University of Hanover, Germany)

11:15 - 12:00 Keynote: Incentives and rewards in scientific software communities

Edzer Pebesma (University of Münster, Germany)

12:00 - 13:00 Session 1: Strategy and general conditions

Moderator: Thomas Risse (L3S Research Center, Germany)

• 12:00 - 12:30 What is good scientific practice for research software?
  Konrad U. Förstner (University of Würzburg / Allianz Initiative: Ad-hoc AG Wissenschaftliche Software, Germany)
  
• 12:30 - 13:00 Legal requirements for software sharing and collaboration
  Nikolaus Forgó (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)
  

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch and networking

14:00 - 15:00 Session 2: Sustainable software infrastructure

Moderator: Jasmin Schmitz (ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences, Germany)

• 14:00 - 14:30 Managing research software from the perspective of a scientific infrastructure provider
  Timo Borst (German National Library of Economics (ZBW), Germany)
  
• 14:30 - 15:00 Solid scenario’s for sustainable software
  Patrick J. C. Aerts (Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) / Netherlands eScience Center, Netherlands)
  

15:00 - 15:45 Coffee, tea and networking

15:45 - 17:15 Session 3: Persistent software referencing

Moderator: Ralph Ewerth (Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) – German National Library of Science and Technology, Germany)

• 15:45 - 16:15 Software citation: a cornerstone of software-enabled research
  Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
  
• 16:15 - 16:45 Workflows for assigning and tracking DOIs for scientific software
  Martin Fenner (DataCite, Germany)
  
• 16:45 - 17:15 Software as a first-class citizen in web archives
  Helge Holzmann (L3S Research Center, Germany)
  

19:00 - 22:00 Get together - Old Town Hall

May 11, 2017

09:00 - 11:00 Session 4: Impact and sustainability through accessible, reusable and open software

Moderator: Timo Borst (German National Library of Economics (ZBW), Germany)

• 09:00 - 09:30 BigDataEurope - The collaborative creation of an open software platform for researchers addressing Europe's societal challenges
  Sören Auer (University of Bonn / Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany)
  
• 09:30 - 10:00 Software sustainability - guidelines for the selfish scientist
  Neil Chue Hong (Software Sustainability Institute, United Kingdom)
  
• 10:00 - 10:30 How to tidy up the jungle of mathematical models? A prerequisite for sustainable research software
  Thomas Koprucki (Weierstrass Institute (WIAS), Germany)
  
• 10:30 - 11:00 Jupyter and IPython facilitating open access and reproducible research
  Benjamin Ragan-Kelley (Simula Research Laboratory / Jupyter, Norway)
  

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee, tea and networking

11:30 - 12:30 Session 5: Decentralized protocols and apps in science

Moderator: Lambert Heller (Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) – German National Library of Science and Technology, Germany)

• 11:30 - 12:00 Blockchain for science and knowledge creation: An intro and overview
  Sönke Bartling (Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Germany)
  

  
  

• 12:00 - 12:30 Dsensor.org peer to peer science
  James Littlejohn (Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom)
  

12:30 - 14:00 Coffee, tea and farewell snacks