The ELIXIR research software ecosystem: an open software metadata commons (BOSC track)
Year: 2023
Type: other
Abstract: Research software is a critical component of computational research. Thus, being able to discover, understand and adequately utilize software is essential. All these activities rely on software metadata. However, these metadata are sparse, expensive to maintain, sometimes is not machine readable, and frequently inconsistent across different resources. The ELIXIR Research Software Ecosystem acts as a proxy to maintain and preserve high-quality metadata for describing research software, aggregating heterogeneous metadata resources from multiple providers. These providers often have different objectives when they are maintaining and aggregating metadata by themselves, as well as user communities and technical implementations. The goals of this project are to consolidate these metadata, and facilitate their integration, curation, and re-usability by the contributors and the wider research community.
Authors: Hans Ienasescu, Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez, Frederik Coppens, José María Fernández, Alban Gaignard, Carole Goble, Björn Grüning, Johan Gustafsson, Josep Ll Gelpi, Jennifer Harrow, Steven Manos, Kota Miura, Steffen Möller, Stuart Owen, Perrine Paul-Gilloteaux, Hedi Peterson, Manthos Pithoulias, Jonathan Tedds, Dmitri Repchevsky, Federico Zambelli, Oleg Zharkov, Matúš Kalaš, Hervé Ménager
Institutions: Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Institut Pasteur
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4416506649