Status: Ongoing
Overview
IOI, through the financial support of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is conducting a research project aimed at developing a comprehensive understanding of the current needs and dependencies in the research software ecosystem and uncovering future opportunities to advance its sustainability and resilience.
This landscape assessment will identify:
- Existing connections between different infrastructure services and initiatives, and where new connections can be built to advance sustainability and resilience of the ecosystem;
- Areas in the ecosystem where there is overcrowding/excessive functional overlap, and where there are gaps, blockers, vulnerabilities, and/or critical dependencies that need addressing;
- Indications of what helps infrastructure services and initiatives succeed in adding value to the research software community.
Read our research project announcement
Project Outputs
Papers
- Skinner, K., Kemp, J., Thaney, K., & Tsang, E. (2025). The State of Open Research Software Infrastructure. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14888589
- Kemp, J., & Tsang, E. (2025). [IOI] Research Software Infrastructure Landscape Overview. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14886707
- Kemp, J., & Tsang, E. (2024). [IOI] Research Brief: Community Infrastructure to Further Open Research Software. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14178127
- Kemp, J., & Tsang, E. (2024). Interview Protocol - Research Software. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14141211
Blog Posts
- Sellanga, J., & Tsang, E. (2025). Charting a path towards a sustainable and resilient research software infrastructure ecosystem. https://investinopen.org/blog/charting-a-path-towards-a-sustainable-and-resilient-research-software-infrastructure-ecosystem/
Grant Proposal
- Thaney, K., & Skinner, K. (2024). Grant proposal: Community infrastructure to further open research software: A landscape analysis of needs, dependencies, and opportunities. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13961597