From 7b985a09b900b800060585778c08cb624ab77f1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerasimos Chourdakis Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:48:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Use sentence case in all headings --- competencies.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/competencies.md b/competencies.md index 5c265cf1..54f2359d 100644 --- a/competencies.md +++ b/competencies.md @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ Finally, @sec:appendix provides an example curriculum in @subsec:examplemaster, a story-like description of a fictional RSE career progression in @subsec:examplecareer, and a list of existing skills and certifications in related fields, in @subsec:existingframeworks. -## The Term Research Software Engineer +## The term Research Software Engineer Research Software Engineering can be considered an interface discipline, linking traditional Software Engineering with Research itself [@Lamprecht2024-giradar]. From 2f9e088b67412691c0f0df66c852f4897113b338 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerasimos Chourdakis Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 17:19:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Group together the terminology sections --- competencies.md | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/competencies.md b/competencies.md index 54f2359d..a0e12850 100644 --- a/competencies.md +++ b/competencies.md @@ -224,7 +224,9 @@ Finally, @sec:appendix provides an example curriculum in @subsec:examplemaster, a story-like description of a fictional RSE career progression in @subsec:examplecareer, and a list of existing skills and certifications in related fields, in @subsec:existingframeworks. -## The term Research Software Engineer +## Terminology + +### The term Research Software Engineer Research Software Engineering can be considered an interface discipline, linking traditional Software Engineering with Research itself [@Lamprecht2024-giradar]. @@ -243,7 +245,7 @@ RSEs often need to deal with non-technical complexities that are characteristic organisational, motivational, with respect to the size of projects, independence and heterogeneous goals of stakeholders, boundary conditions for funding and future funding, to name just a few. Summarising, RSEs have skills and experience in three important areas: in the research area(s) their software is used in, in software engineering topics, as well as in interdisciplinary communication. -## Terminology +### Further definitions Depending on the national research environments and processes that readers are familiar with, the notion of the terms *software* and *research* might differ.