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The main advantages of central RSE units all stem from the pooling of resources.
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There are at least three aspects to RSE pooling that research institutions can benefit from: funding, diverse knowledge, and support contacts.
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The first, pooling of \textbf{funding}, allows organisations to invest in building up institutional knowledge by supporting RSEs to become experts.
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A central RSE team on long-term contracts will act as a knowledge hub due to their accummulated experience in and support of several disciplines as well as established contacts within the organisation.
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A central RSE team on long-term contracts will act as a knowledge hub due to their accumulated experience in and support of several disciplines as well as established contacts within the organisation.
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This is comparable to commercial/industry R\&D departments, where key software architects and developers establish a knowledge hub and consult with as many projects as necessary \todo{Does that exist in reality? Isn’t it just that people, on average, stay longer?} [REF].
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% side-note: it's also similar to “inhouse consulting” in management\autocite{moscho_inhouse_consulting_2010}. They even formed a national network to raise awareness about the internal consultant role (https://inhouse-consulting.de/).
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Subject matter experts like software architects, database administrators and other tooling specialists are organised centrally and share their knowledge with members of decentralised projects.
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They are assumed to be able to suggest the most appropriate tools/frameworks and design or architecture patterns for certain research challenges.
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Their diversity in skills (languages, frameworks, front/back-end, UX, management) is welcomed, especially for short-term needs in projects.
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This will improve the chances of a project being successfully completed in a timely manner.
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This will save money otherwise spent in duplication of efforts \todo{magi: not sure what effort is dublicated here, learning new stuff?}.
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This will save money otherwise spent in duplication of efforts \todo{magi: not sure what effort is duplicated here, learning new stuff?}.
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That means a central RSE unit has more RSE competencies than any individual research group in the institution.
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This allows members of that unit to bring in new ideas or transfer them from other collaborations to these groups.
IT and (potentially high-performance) computing infrastructure provisioning is usually the purview of an institution's IT department and/or a computing centre\todo{magi: what's the difference between IT department and computing centre, I would contract}.
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However, a central RSE unit can provide extra services by acting as an intermediary for RSE infrastructure and by hosting pilot instances of new tools and services.
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IT departments typically only provide the service for hosting and accessing IT infrastructures, such as RSE infrastructures\todo{magi: what is RSE infrastructure? database, web services, compute clouds?}.
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Central RSE units are a link between the central services offered either by IT departments, computing centres or over-archlingly available services on one side,
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Central RSE units are a link between the central services offered either by IT departments, computing centres or over-archingly available services on one side,
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and RSEs in spokes on the other, offering documentation, training and best-practices to efficiently and effectively use available services and comply with established processes.
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Furthermore, the central RSE unit can offer consulting for RSEs in spokes to guide selection processes of the tools and services best suited for each project.
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