FAIR-USE4OS: Guidelines for creating impactful open-source software.
PLoS Comput Biol
; 20(5): e1012045, 2024 May.
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ABSTRACT
This paper extends the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) guidelines to provide criteria for assessing if software conforms to best practices in open source. By adding "USE" (User-Centered, Sustainable, Equitable), software development can adhere to open source best practice by incorporating user-input early on, ensuring front-end designs are accessible to all possible stakeholders, and planning long-term sustainability alongside software design. The FAIR-USE4OS guidelines will allow funders and researchers to more effectively evaluate and plan open-source software projects. There is good evidence of funders increasingly mandating that all funded research software is open source; however, even under the FAIR guidelines, this could simply mean software released on public repositories with a Zenodo DOI. By creating FAIR-USE software, best practice can be demonstrated from the very beginning of the design process and the software has the greatest chance of success by being impactful.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Software
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Humans
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En
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PLoS Comput Biol
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PloS comput. biol
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PloS computational biology
Assunto da revista:
BIOLOGIA
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INFORMATICA MEDICA
Ano de publicação:
2024
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Article
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Reino Unido