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Wilhelm Hasselbring , Stephan Druskat , Jan Bernoth , Philine Betker , Michael Felderer , Stephan Ferenz , Anna‐Lena Lamprecht , Jan Linxweiler , Bernhard Rumpe⋆ ·

YOU? · · 2024 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2404.14364 · OA: W4395065846

Research software has been categorized in different contexts to serve different goals. We start with a look at what research software is, before we discuss the purpose of research software categories. We propose a multi-dimensional categorization of research software. We present a template for characterizing such categories. As selected dimensions, we present our proposed role-based, developer-based, and maturity-based categories. Since our work has been inspired by various previous efforts to categorize research software, we discuss them as related works. We characterize all these categories via the previously introduced template, to enable a systematic comparison.