Those wishing to attend the 2nd Conference on Non-Textual Information „Software and Services for Science (S3)“ can now register. The reduced early bird rate is available until 31 March 2017.
Under the title “Software and Services for Science (S3)”, the English-language conference focuses primarily on the topics of sustainability and referencing scientific software, trends in programming practice, software sharing and legal aspects. The event offers a forum where infrastructure facilities and users can share information about the requirements, expectations and needs concerning scientific software in practice.
The keynote “Incentives and rewards in scientific software communities” will be held by Edzer Pebesma (University of Münster). The programme also includes sessions on “Infrastructure, Strategy and General Conditions”, “Persistent Software Referencing”, “Impact and Sustainability through Accessible, Reusable and Open Software” and “Decentralised protocols and apps in science”.
TIB is hosting the 2nd Conference on Non-Textual Information in collaboration with its partners ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences and ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. L3S Research Centre will support the conference in the area of programme planning.
More information: www.nontextualinformation2017.de
