Document software by specifying metadata
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What This Task Involves
The training session and training materials indicate how to:
- Describe your software so that others can find it and use it by describing metadata to:
- Uniquely identify the software
- Understand what the software does
- Run the software
- Do research with the software
- Get support if you have questions or find bugs
- Contribute to the development of the software
Training Materials
This training session will be held on May 1, 2015:
Suggested Readings
- "OntoSoft: Capturing Scientific Software Metadata". Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar, and Daniel Garijo. Proceedings of the Eighth ACM International Conference on Knowledge Capture, Palisades, NY, October 2015.
What To Do
- Describe your software using the GeoSoft software registry
- You do not need to log in
- Select "Software" from the top, then select "Publish your software"
- It will show you a roadmap of 6 categories and when you select one it will walk you through questions
- Special features:
- If your software is in GitHub, once you provide the URL then GeoSoft will extract some metadata automatically from GitHub and ask you if you want to incorporate it
- If your software is described in CSDMS or in the NOAAA NCDC repository, it will already be in the system
- Save the responses when you are done
- GeoSoft is still a prototype, we appreciate your comments and feedback!
- Once you are done, click on the name of the software
- At the top you will be able to download an HTML page with the description of the software, which you can put in your code page or project page
- You can also download RDF/XML or JSON if you prefer
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Users who have contributed to this Task, its SubTasks and Answers:
- Yolanda (21 Edits)
