OP Lunch Talk #68: "Open Source Software & Open Science at NASA"

Steve Crawford (NASA HQ) on “Open Source Software & Open Science at NASA”

Steve Crawford is Senior Program Executive for data and computing in the Science Mission Directorate of NASA. He is the lead for the Open Source Science Initiative and led the development of SMD’s Scientific Information Policy. Previously, he has managed the teams maintaining the open source calibration software for the Hubble Space Telescope and Webb Space Telescope. He has a PhD in Astronomy and previously working on the Southern African Large Telescope. He was a founding member of Astropy and a former scientific editor at the AAS journals with a focus on software and machine learning.

Talk slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18ddmAsEX-N8MevIYZ6m6DmRQheQDLvqwoKGG3dzO9gk/

https://science.data.nasa.gov/news/software-workshop-2024/ https://github.com/nasa/Transform-to-Open-Science https://scixplorer.org

Timeline

• 00:00 Welcome
• 03:03 Introduction
• 04:27 Software at NASA
• 06:49 OSS Ingenuity and JWST
• 10:40 Astropy
• 11:18 Steve’s Journey to Open Source
• 13:16 OSS in NASA Science
• 17:35 Tools for Open Science
• 18:38 Challenges of OSS
• 20:05 NASA Open Science Implementation
• 22:49 SMD Scientific Info Policy
• 24:25 Lowering Barriers to OSS
• 27:26 NASA Funding for Open Science
• 30:57 Science Discovery Engine
• 31:18 NASA SciXplorer
• 32:35 NASA Transform to Open Science (TOPS)
• 33:25 NASA Open Science 101

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