Earth science research has become increasingly collaborative. Researchers work together on data, software and algorithms to answer interesting research questions. Teams also share these data and software with other collaborators to refine and improve these products.

Software is critical to the success of science. Creating and using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) fosters contributions from the scientific community, creates a peer-reviewed and consensus-oriented environment, and promotes the sustainability of science infrastructures. Increasingly, research is conducted and communicated through notebooks.

Source code used in data analysis, like the data themselves, needs to be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR): it also needs to be properly versioned, curated and archived to ensure research outcomes can be validated.

This session will look at the role of FOSS, cloud-based architecture solutions, metadata, online notebooks and other user interfaces to support information sharing, scientific collaboration, scientific reproducibility, QA/QC and analytics at scale solutions.

• EGU: European Geosciences Union -