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    Publications on HIFIS.

see also the Software Publications

Publications, Presentations, Selected Blog Posts

2022

• Aktueller Stand des Helmholtz Research Software Directory, 3. Helmholtz Open Science Forum: Forschungssoftware, online, November 2022, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7360386.
• The Research Software Directory in Helmholtz, The Research Software Directory: Improving the impact of research software, online, November 2022, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7347366.
• Integrated dataset placement service for scientists, IBERGRID 2022 Faro, October 2022. Preliminary version.
• Helmholtz Federated IT Services: Enabling innovative software and supporting services for research, IBERGRID 2022 Faro, October 2022. Preliminary version.
• Sichtbarkeit und FAIRness von Forschungssoftware erhöhen: das Research Software Directory, dini Workshop "Forschungssoftware managen", Stuttgart, September 2022, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7083033.
• Scaling IT Services for Germany’s Largest Research Organisation - An Experience Report, DevOpsDays Berlin, September 2022.
• Recap: Workshop Let's Talk FAIR for Research Software at SE2022, deRSE Blog post, June 2022.
• Research Software Development @helmholtz, MPG Worskhop Future Opportunities for Software in Research (FORS2022), May 2022.
• Helmholtz Digital Services for Science — Collaboration made easy., Helmholtz Open Science Forum Research Software, April 2022, DOI: 10.48440/os.helmholtz.045
• From License Consultation to Software Spotlights, RDA Deutschland Conference, February 2022, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6248895.
• OpenSource im Spannungsfeld akademischer und wirtschaftlicher Interessen, Software Engineering Conference Deutschland (rSE22), February 2022.
• Helmholtz Federated IT Services: Innovative Cloud and Software Services for Science. In: Software Engineering (SE) 2022, Track rSE 22, February 2022.
• HIFIS: VO Federation for EFSS In CS3 2022 — Cloud Storage Synchronization and Sharing, January 2022.

2021

• HIFIS Survey 2021 Report, Blog Post, December 2021.
• Solutions for the Ages — a Short Crash Course on Sustainable Software Development. In: HIDA Annual Conference 2021, November 2021.
• Roles in Research Software Engineering (RSE) Consultancies. In: Research Software Engineers in HPC Workshop at SC21 (RSE-HPC-2021), November 2021.
• HIFIS: VO Federation for EFSS In: HEPiX Automn 2021 online Workshop, October 2021
• Helmholtz IT Services for Science: HIFIS In: HEPiX Automn 2021 online Workshop, October 2021
• [Helmholtz AAI full presentation]({% post_url 2021/10/2021-10-22-helmholtz-aai-full-presentation-in-dfn-meeting %}), in 75. DFN Betriebstagung, October 2021.
• Helmholtz Resonator Podcast on HIFIS. In Resonator-Podcast, October 2021
• Checkliste zur Unterstützung der Helmholtz-Zentren bei der Implementierung von Richtlinien für nachhaltige Forschungssoftware, September 2021.
• HIFIS: IT-Services für Helmholtz & Partner. In: DFN Mitteilungen, pp. 44--45, June 2021.
• Easy Diagram creation in Gitlab, Blog post, June 2021.
• Indikatoren für Open Science: Report des Helmholtz Open Science Forum, June 2021.
• Solutions for the Ages — a Short Crash Course on Sustainable Software Development. In: International Virtual Covid Data Challenge 2021, April 2021.
• [Helmholtz AAI Update]({% post_url 2021/04/2021-04-14-helmholtz-aai-in-nfdi-meeting %}). Presentation on the role of Helmholtz AAI in the context of AARC, EOSC, and NFDI, April 2021.
• Workshop material Using Containers in Science, March 2021.
• Helmholtz Federated IT Services. In: National and International Trends in Research Storage at Scale, Open Storage Network Concept Paper, March 2021.
• Helmholtz AAI. Teaser talk, In: 74. DFN Betriebstagung, March 2021.
• HIFIS transfer service: FTS for Helmholtz. In: ISGC 2021 — International Symposium on Grids & Clouds, March 2021.
• HIFIS: Sync&Share Federation for Helmholtz. In: CS3 2021 — Cloud Storage Synchronization and Sharing, January 2021.

2020

• Digitale Dienste für die Wissenschaft — wohin geht die Reise?, December 2020
  • German version: 10.5281/zenodo.4301924
  • English version: 10.5281/zenodo.4301947
• HIFIS Software Survey 2020 Evaluation, Blog Post Series, Nov 2020-Jan 2021.
  • A Community Perspective
  • Consulting Perspective
  • Programming, CI and VCS
  • A Technology Perspective
• Federated data storage for Helmholtz Research & Friends. In: National and International Trends in Research Storage at Scale, Open Storage Network, November 2020.
• HIFIS presentations at EGI conference (2-5 November 2020):
  • Helmholtz Federated IT and Accessible Compute Resources for Applied AI Research.
  • HIFIS transfer service: FTS for everyone.
• Presentations of all major HIFIS working groups at the 2nd All-Hands HIFIS Meeting, October 2020.
• HIFIS backbone transfer service: FTS for everyone. In: HEPiX Autumn 2020 Online workshop, October 2020.
• Docker For Science, Blog post series, September 2020:
  • Part 1: Getting Started with Docker
  • Part 2: A Dockerfile Walkthrough
  • Part 3: Using Docker in Practical Situations
• HIFIS — Platform, Training and Support for a Sustainable Software Development. In: DLR Wissensaustausch-Workshop Software Engineering (WAW SE VII), September 2020.
• Zusammenarbeiten mit der Helmholtz-Cloud, Lichtblick Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, p. 4, September 2020.
• HZI-led Coronavirus Sero-Survey in collaboration with HIFIS, August 2020.
  • German Version
• Promoting IT based science at all levels. In: EGI Newsletter #37, June 2020.
• [HIFIS suggestions and guidelines]({% link services/overall/learning-materials.md %}), Blog post series, May-June 2020.
  • Collaborative Notetaking
  • Video Conferencing
  • Chatting
• [Summary of the Feedback Report of the Scientific Advisory Board]({% post_url 2020/05/2020-05-27-sab-summary %}), May 2020.
• [S/MIME Signing Git Commits]({% post_url 2020/04/2020-04-15-smime-signing-git-commits %}), Blog post, April 2020.
• The HIFIS Cloud Competence Cluster. In: CS3 2020 Workshop on Cloud Services for Synchronisation and Sharing, January 2020.

2019

• Presentations at the 1st HIFIS Conference, October 2019.
• Helmholtz Federated IT Services (HIFIS) — Creating Services together at Software Engineering and Reuse in Modeling, Simulation, and Data Analytics for Science and Engineering (SC 2019 BOF)
• HDF Cloud — Helmholtz Data Federation Cloud Resources at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre
• Integrierte Entwicklungs- und Publikationsumgebung für Forschungssoftware und Daten am Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
• Anforderungen, Wünsche und Erfahrungen für den Aufbau des HIFIS Competence Clusters "Software Services" in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
• Continuous Documentation for Users, Developers and Maintainers
• Share and synchronize your data with HZB Cloud Nubes safely

# Software Publications

HIFIS creates its own software packages, but also contributes to Open Source software in general.

Software Packages

2022

• Unattended-Upgrades Role for Ansible - Ansible role to set up unattended-upgrades on Debian-based systems.
• Ansible RSD role — Ansible role to set up the Research Software Directory.

2021

• HIFIS Surveyval — Python Package for analysing survey data.
• Ansible Netplan Role — Ansible role that installs Netplan and configures networking on hosts.
• Ansible SSH keys role — Ansible role to distribute authorized SSH public keys to users.

2020

• Ansible GitLab Role — Ansible role to install and configure the GitLab Omnibus package, also in a high availability context.
• Ansible Keepalived Role — Ansible role that sets up Keepalived for high availabilty.
• Ansible Redis Role — Ansible role for setting up a highly available Redis cluster.
• Ansible HAProxy role — Ansible role to set up HAProxy to be used as a load balancer.
• Ansible GitLab-Runner role — Ansible role for deploying GitLab-Runner (optimized for Openstack).
• GitLab-Runner for Power — GitLab-Runner packages for the ppc64le architecture.

Contributions

2022

• Molecule Podman Plugin - Fix missing playbooks in the PyPI wheel
• Kira Dependencies Bot:
  • Bump ruby version from 2.7.5 to 2.7.6
  • Get rid of bundler deprecation warning
• Ansible Role Certbot — Fix snap symlink task failing in initial dry-run
• Ansible Role Docker — Fix docker-compose update

2021

• Gitleaks — Fix example in leaky-repo.toml
• Ansible (community.general) — Fix HAProxy draining
• Ansible Collection Hardening:
  • Add variable to specify SSH host RSA key size
  • fix galaxy action to update local galaxy.yml
• Ansible Role Elasticsearch — Stop plugin install to fail in check mode

2020

• Python Poetry — Respect REUSE spec when including licenses
• Ansible (community.crypto) — openssl_pkcs12 parse action: always changed in check mode
• Ansible Collection Hardening — Use package state 'present' since 'installed' is deprecated