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Software Management Plans at a glance

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Software Management Plans are to software what Data Management Plans are to datasets. SMPs help us describe the research software lifecycle in a lightweight, from an software empty repository to its publication. SMPs aim to raise awareness around good practices for research software development. In this 10-minute talk, we will get a quick overview on what SMPs are and how they can be supported by metadata, so they become machine-actionable SMPs. This talk was presented on 2025-11-20 as part of the webinar series "Fortaleciendo capacidades y fomentando colaboración" organized by La Referencia, the Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and Research Data Alliance (RDA).

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17659839

Author: Castro, Leyla Jael

Institution: ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences

Language: English

Topic: Research Data Management Practices

Subfield: Information Systems

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: European Commission, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Awards: NFDI4DS NFDI für Datenwissenschaften und Künstliche Intelligenz, Base4NFDI Basisdienste für die NFDI (NFDI4Earth), EOSC Future