As part of our delivery against the UKRI DRI objectives, CoSeC has embarked on a number of cross-cutting projects. These were identified as key areas of need that we saw from our work across research communities and that also aligned with key objectives within UKRI STFC National Labs.

The first is a project on “Energy Efficient Computing” led by STFC Software Engineer Jess Huntley and CCP-DCM Project Lead Dr Hussam Al Daas, who are working with CCP communities to identify common challenges related to energy efficient computing and develop follow-up projects to determine and publicise best practice. 

The second project is the creation and development of the “CoSeC Catalogue”, led by Dr Gemma Poulter, Data Systems and Services Group Leader and Elizabeth Newbold, Open Science Theme Lead. 

Research outputs, such as software codes, projects, test cases, publications, data and events are often either not shared at all, or all shared in different places without any links in place to connect them. For example, software codes might be shared via GitHub, data via universities’ institutional repositories or Zenodo, events via the websites of individual projects, publications via universities’ institutional repositories and so on. The potential impact of cataloguing these research outputs in one place, so that they are FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) is high. The result of the application of FAIR attributes is well known and what all data, whether that data is experimental, simulated, or in the form of research outputs, should aim to adhere to.