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* [http://www.isi.edu/~gil/papers/gil-etal-ontosoft.pdf "OntoSoft: An Ontology for Scientific Software Metadata"]. Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar, Daniel Garijo, and Idafen Santana.  GeoSoft project report, 2015.
  
 
== What To Do ==
 
== What To Do ==

Revision as of 13:43, 1 May 2015

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:
    1. Uniquely identify the software
    2. Understand what the software does
    3. Run the software
    4. Do research with the software
    5. Get support if you have questions or find bugs
    6. Contribute to the development of the software

Training Materials

This training session will be held on May 1, 2015:

  • Presentation

Suggested Readings

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.