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Reuse of software and related components can contribute to the development of systems for processing scientific data. The reuse of components, which can be from any stage of the development life cycle, provides opportunities to realize benefits such as reduced costs and learning curves. However, the reuse of existing components also comes with risks that must be recognized in order to be mitigated. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration established the Earth Science Data Systems Software Reuse Working Group to support software reuse among members of the community of Earth science data systems developers. This is done through a variety of activities, including research, education, and public outreach, which are conducted to help encourage and enable reuse within the community. Considerations for realizing the benefits of software reuse and minimizing risks are presented along with recent working group activities to improve reuse capabilities for the community of Earth science data systems developers.
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The authors are grateful to the members of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Science Data Systems Software Reuse Working Group who have contributed to the efforts described in this paper, to the anonymous reviewers of earlier drafts who kindly offered suggestions for improving the paper, and to Chris A. Mattmann and Neal Most who offered valuable suggestions for improving earlier drafts of the paper. The authors also appreciate the support for this work that has been received from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, especially support received for Robert Downs under contract NNG08HZ11C.
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Communicated by Thomas Narock
This article is based on the presentation “Relevance of Reuse in Building Advanced Data Processing Systems” by the authors to the Earth and Space Science Informatics Workshop, “Developing the Next Generation of Earth and Space Science Informatics: Technologies and the People That Will Implement Them”, on August 4, 2009, at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Marshall, J.J., Downs, R.R. & Samadi, S. Relevance of software reuse in building advanced scientific data processing systems. Earth Sci Inform 3, 95–100 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-010-0054-3
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