Document software by specifying metadata
From Geoscience Paper of the Future
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:
- Presentation
Suggested Readings
- "OntoSoft: An Ontology for Scientific Software Metadata". Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar, Daniel Garijo, and Idafen Santana. GeoSoft project report, 2015.
What To Do
- Describe your software using the GeoSoft software registry
- GeoSoft is still a prototype.
- It will walk you through questions
- It will give you a pointer to a structured description of your software metadata.