RSEs lack career progression and one of the reasons is that RSE contributions do not (necessarily) have well-defined metrics. The RSE-AUNZ Steering Committee (SC) ran a series of consultations in 2021 (BoFs at C3DIS, eResearch Australasia, and NZRSE) and is in the process of creating an initial draft of what we have heard from the community so far.
The RSE-AUNZ SC identified 6 major areas of RSE contributions:
Core software development
Software quality/Tools & Techniques
Reproducibility
Training & Outreach
Communication
Innovation & Discovery
Through community consultations, we would like to come up with metrics that can capture the breadth of RSE contributions
Some considerations for metrics are:
Qualitative story or quantitative metric?
Is the metric measuring more of the research side or the software engineering side?
How does the metric compare between different domains?
How does the metric evolve with time?
How does the metric relate to underlying biases (e.g., men are cited more frequently than women)?
RSEs lack career progression and one of the reasons is that RSE contributions do not (necessarily) have well-defined metrics. The RSE-AUNZ Steering Committee (SC) ran a series of consultations in 2021 (BoFs at C3DIS, eResearch Australasia, and NZRSE) and is in the process of creating an initial draft of what we have heard from the community so far.
The RSE-AUNZ SC identified 6 major areas of RSE contributions:
Through community consultations, we would like to come up with metrics that can capture the breadth of RSE contributions
Some considerations for metrics are: