HEP Software Foundation Community White Paper Working Group - Data and Software Preservation to Enable Reuse

2018/10/02 by M. D. Hildreth, Hildreth, M. D., A. Boehnlein +44
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Data Storage Technologies #Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Research Data Management Practices #Scientific Computing and Data Management #physics.comp-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1810.01191

arxiv created 2018/10/02 · openalex publication_date 2018/10/02 · arxiv updated 2018/10/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

In this chapter of the High Energy Physics Software Foundation Community Whitepaper, we discuss the current state of infrastructure, best practices, and ongoing developments in the area of data and software preservation in high energy physics. A re-framing of the motivation for preservation to enable re-use is presented. A series of research and development goals in software and other cyberinfrastructure that will aid in the enabling of reuse of particle physics analyses and production software are presented and discussed.

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