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Published April 19, 2021 | Version v1
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Ensuring usability of a scientific code base

  • 1. University of Freiburg

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Software and in particular source code became an important component of scientific publications and henceforth is now subject of research data management.  Maintaining source code such that it remains a usable and a valuable scientific contribution is and remains a huge task. Not all code contributions can be actively maintained forever. Eventually, there will be a significant backlog of legacy source-code. In this article we analyse the requirements for applying the concept of long-term reusability to source code. We identify gaps and provide a technical infrastructure based on emulator to support automated builds of historic software in form of source code.

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