From 29b10ea9e21d8fea581b90b03a123a610e4269d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Sargent <philip.sargent@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:48:24 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Research Software Engineering --- handbook/troggle/trogmanual.html | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/handbook/troggle/trogmanual.html b/handbook/troggle/trogmanual.html index 80e0350df..a44a2fe39 100644 --- a/handbook/troggle/trogmanual.html +++ b/handbook/troggle/trogmanual.html @@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ <p>If you are looking for how to manage or correct cave survey data then this is not the right place. You want the <a href="../computing/manual.html"><em>Data</em> Maintenance</a> manual. +<p>Troggle attempts to be an exemplar of best-practice in Research Software Engineering. See +<a href="https://society-rse.org/about/">The Society of Research Software Engineering</a> founded in 2019. See also the +<a href="https://www.software.ac.uk/about">the UK Software Sustainability Institute</a>. +<p><em>"From short, thrown-together temporary scripts to solving a specific problem, through an abundance of complex +spreadsheets analysing collected data, to the hundreds of software engineers and millions of lines of code behind +international efforts such as the Large Hadron Collider and the Square Kilometre Array, there are few areas of research +where software does not have a fundamental role."</em> <p>This part of the handbook is intended for people maintaining the troggle <em>software</em>: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1155986.The_Tricky_Troggle">