Motivation

Current collaborative and funding practices for geoinformatics research result in development silos, low community adoption rates, limited geoscientist engagement, competing platforms, and duplication of effort between organizations. DigitalCrust advocates for lightweight collaborative practices borrowed from the open-source software community to improve community connectivity.

• Building effective software is a mode of scientific collaboration: software-as-collaborative-science.

• Building effective software is a mode of scientific communication: software-as-communication.

• Software infrastructure: Most of us think of software as scripts, but we need to start thinking about systems.

• Software collaboration: Software can be a mechanism for enhancing collaboration.