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@INPROCEEDINGS{DiMeglio:128972,
      author       = {Di Meglio, Alberto and Estrella, Florida and Riedel,
                      Morris},
      title        = {{O}n realizing the concept study {S}cience{S}oft of the
                      {E}uropean {M}iddleware {I}nitiative: {O}pen {S}oftware for
                      {O}pen {S}cience},
      publisher    = {IEEE},
      reportid     = {FZJ-2013-00497},
      pages        = {8 pp.},
      year         = {2012},
      comment      = {Proceedings of E-Science (e-Science), 2012 IEEE 8th
                      International Conference on},
      booktitle     = {Proceedings of E-Science (e-Science),
                       2012 IEEE 8th International Conference
                       on},
      abstract     = {In September 2011 the European Middleware Initiative (EMI)
                      started discussing the feasibility of creating an open
                      source community for science with other projects like EGI,
                      StratusLab, OpenAIRE, iMarine, and IGE, SMEs like DCore,
                      Maat, SixSq, SharedObjects, communities like WLCG and LSGC.
                      The general idea of establishing an open source community
                      dedicated to software for scientific applications was
                      understood and appreciated by most people. However, the lack
                      of a precise definition of goals and scope is a limiting
                      factor that has also made many people sceptical of the
                      initiative. In order to understand more precisely what such
                      an open source initiative should do and how, EMI has started
                      a more formal feasibility study around a concept called
                      ScienceSoft – Open Software for Open Science. A group of
                      people from interested parties was created in December 2011
                      to be the ScienceSoft Steering Committee with the short-term
                      mandate to formalize the discussions about the initiative
                      and produce a document with an initial high-level
                      description of the motivations, issues and possible
                      solutions and a general plan to make it happen. The
                      conclusions of the initial investigation were presented at
                      CERN in February 2012 at a ScienceSoft Workshop organized by
                      EMI. Since then, presentations of ScienceSoft have been made
                      in various occasions, in Amsterdam in January 2012 at the
                      EGI Workshop on Sustainability, in Taipei in February at the
                      ISGC 2012 conference, in Munich in March at the EGI/EMI
                      Conference and at OGF 34 in March. This paper provides
                      information this concept study ScienceSoft as an overview
                      distributed to the broader scientific community to critique
                      it.},
      month         = {Oct},
      date          = {8-10-2012},
      organization  = {2012 IEEE 8th International Conference
                       on E-Science (e-Science), Chicago, IL
                       (USA), 8-10-2012 - 12-10-2012},
      cin          = {JSC},
      cid          = {I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406},
      pnm          = {412 - Grid Technologies and Infrastructures (POF2-412)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-412},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)8},
      doi          = {10.1109/eScience.2012.6404450},
      url          = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/128972},
}