CCP-AHC: A research software community for the arts, humanities, and culture domain in the UK

The goal of the Collaborative Computational Project for Arts, Humanities, and Culture (CCP-AHC) is to support the sustainable and efficient development of software, pipelines, and workflows used by arts, humanities, and culture researchers who make use of UK-based digital research infrastructure (DRI), including high-performance computing (HPC) and advanced computing infrastructures supported by UKRI. It will do so by disseminating and implementing the Collaborative Computational Project (CCP) model that has successfully been used by many other scientific software communities over the past several decades, with the support of the national CoSeC programme at STFC. There is a special emphasis on ensuring that research software developed by this community makes the best use of large-scale compute infrastructures supported by public funding. This includes existing and future high-performance computing (HPC) and advanced computing infrastructures supported by UKRI, as well as those run by UK-based HEIs and other research organisations eligible for UKRI funding. In our first year, we brought together key stakeholders in the area, including RSEs and other dRTPs supporting computationally intensive research in arts, humanities, and culture. In the second year, we will use RSE and computational scientist resource within the project to produce a portfolio of codes, pipelines, and workflows for adoption by the project.