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Why this guide exists

The LUMC Data Competence Center (DCC) supports LUMC researchers in developing and managing research software. For example, we are often asked questions such as how to choose a license, why a project needs more than one maintainer, what makes software citable, or how to plan for the day the postdoc leaves. This guide collects that advice in one navigable place, so that it is available to everyone at the LUMC and other institutions.

It is designed to be used alongside our other resources: SciWiz, the LUMC instance of the tool that provides the Software Management Plan (SMP) writing wizard and export functionalities, the LUMC FAIR Research Software Training website, and LUMC Research Software Stewardship (internal), which is the entry point for research software support at the LUMC and links back to this guide.

This guide is a living document. Research software practices change, tools come and go, and these pages are updated as they do.

Who made it

The Research Software Guidelines are developed and maintained by the LUMC Data Competence Center (DCC). They were written by Mariia Steeghs-Turchina and Anna Niehues.

The source code lives at github.com/LUMC-DCC/rs-guidelines. Corrections, additions, and suggestions are welcome: open an issue or a pull request there. For questions about these guidelines, contact the LUMC DCC (LUMCDCC@lumc.nl). For research support at the LUMC more broadly, the central point of contact is the LUMC Research Support Desk (RSD) (contact form).

Reusing this guide

The Research Software Guidelines by LUMC DCC are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.