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

Technical Report · Tue Oct 02 00:00:00 EDT 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1488605· OSTI ID:1488605

Hildreth, M. D. ^[1]; Boehnlein, A. ^[2]; Cranmer, K. ^[3]; Dallmeier-Tiessen, S. ^[4]; Gardner, R. ^[5]; Hacker, T. ^[6]; Heinrich, L. ^[3]; Jimenez, I. ^[7]; Kane, M. ^[8]; Katz, D. S. ^[9]; Malik, T. ^[10]; Maltzahn, C. ^[7]; Neubauer, M. ^[11]; Neubert, S. ^[12]; Pivarski, Jim ^[13]; Sexton-Kennedy, E. ^[14]; Shiers, J. ^[4]; Simko, T. ^[2]; Smith, S. ^[15]; South, D. ^[16] ; Verbytskyi, A. ^[17]; Watts, G. ^[18]; Wozniak, J. ^[5]

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1. Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (United States)
2. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
3. New York Univ., New York, NY (United States)
4. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
5. Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)
6. Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
7. Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
8. Soundcloud, Berlin (Germany)
9. NCSA, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
10. DePaul Univ., Chicago, IL (United States)
11. Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
12. Univ. of Heidelberg, Heidelberg (Germany)
13. Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States)
14. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
15. McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON (Canada)
16. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
17. Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik, Munich (Germany)
18. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)

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 cyber-infrastructure that will aid in the enabling of reuse of particle physics analyses and production software are presented and discussed.

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1488605
• Report Number(s): HSF-CWP-2017-06; arXiv:1810.01191; FERMILAB-FN-1060-CD; 1697055
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English