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51 | 51 | %We follow here the definition: “Research Software includes source code files, algorithms, scripts, computational workflows and executables that were created during the research process or for a research purpose”, with full definition and discussion provided in~\autocite{Gruenpeter2021}. |
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53 | 53 | The number of people developing software in academia is constantly rising~\autocite{Hannay2009, Hettrick2015}. |
54 | | -Research Software Engineering consists of actions necessary to create, adapt or maintain Research Software or train others to do so. |
| 54 | +Research Software Engineering consists of actions necessary to create, adapt or maintain Research Software and to provide consulting in these actions, with the aim to train researchers to do so themselves. |
55 | 55 | These actions are very diverse and so are the environments they are performed in. |
56 | | -This position paper focuses on (groups of) research software engineers and researchers who require RSE for their research. |
57 | | -We advocate the establishment and support of dedicated, central RSE groups in German research organizations, with clearly defined tasks, contact points, and, in particular, sustained funding. |
| 56 | +This position paper focuses on groups of research software engineers that provide their services for an entire research organisation or at least a substrancial part of it. |
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| 58 | +We advocate the establishment and support of dedicated, central RSE groups in German research organizations, with clearly defined tasks, contact points, and, in particular, sustained funding, for the benefit of all researchers in their organisation. |
58 | 59 | We provide an overview of the various task these teams have and discuss potential realization strategies, learning from already existing examples of such an RSE unit. |
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60 | 61 | Before we motivate the topic of this position paper further, we first introduce the terminology used throught this work. |
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