Nine best practices for research software registries and repositories
Scientific software registries and repositories improve software findability and research transparency, provide information for software citations, and foster preservation of computational methods in a wide range of disciplines. Registries and repositories play a critical role by supporting research...
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| author | Daniel Garijo Hervé Ménager Lorraine Hwang Ana Trisovic Michael Hucka Thomas Morrell Alice Allen Task Force on Best Practices for Software Registries SciCodes Consortium |
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| description | Scientific software registries and repositories improve software findability and research transparency, provide information for software citations, and foster preservation of computational methods in a wide range of disciplines. Registries and repositories play a critical role by supporting research reproducibility and replicability, but developing them takes effort and few guidelines are available to help prospective creators of these resources. To address this need, the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group convened a Task Force to distill the experiences of the managers of existing resources in setting expectations for all stakeholders. In this article, we describe the resultant best practices which include defining the scope, policies, and rules that govern individual registries and repositories, along with the background, examples, and collaborative work that went into their development. We believe that establishing specific policies such as those presented here will help other scientific software registries and repositories better serve their users and their disciplines. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b829579ab4ef4178a75970760736c6452022-12-22T04:02:01ZengPeerJ Inc.PeerJ Computer Science2376-59922022-08-018e102310.7717/peerj-cs.1023Nine best practices for research software registries and repositoriesDaniel Garijo0Hervé Ménager1Lorraine Hwang2Ana Trisovic3Michael Hucka4Thomas Morrell5Alice Allen6Task Force on Best Practices for Software Registries7SciCodes Consortium8Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, SpainInstitut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Hub, Paris, FranceUniversity of California, Davis, Davis, California, United StatesHarvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesCalifornia Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United StatesCalifornia Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United StatesUniversity of Maryland, College Park, MD, United StatesFORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working GroupConsortium of Scientific Software Registries and RepositoriesScientific software registries and repositories improve software findability and research transparency, provide information for software citations, and foster preservation of computational methods in a wide range of disciplines. Registries and repositories play a critical role by supporting research reproducibility and replicability, but developing them takes effort and few guidelines are available to help prospective creators of these resources. To address this need, the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group convened a Task Force to distill the experiences of the managers of existing resources in setting expectations for all stakeholders. In this article, we describe the resultant best practices which include defining the scope, policies, and rules that govern individual registries and repositories, along with the background, examples, and collaborative work that went into their development. We believe that establishing specific policies such as those presented here will help other scientific software registries and repositories better serve their users and their disciplines.https://peerj.com/articles/cs-1023.pdfBest practicesResearch software repositoryResearch software registrySoftware metadataRepository policiesResearch software registry guidelines |
| spellingShingle | Daniel Garijo Hervé Ménager Lorraine Hwang Ana Trisovic Michael Hucka Thomas Morrell Alice Allen Task Force on Best Practices for Software Registries SciCodes Consortium Nine best practices for research software registries and repositories PeerJ Computer Science Best practices Research software repository Research software registry Software metadata Repository policies Research software registry guidelines |
| title | Nine best practices for research software registries and repositories |
| title_full | Nine best practices for research software registries and repositories |
| title_fullStr | Nine best practices for research software registries and repositories |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nine best practices for research software registries and repositories |
| title_short | Nine best practices for research software registries and repositories |
| title_sort | nine best practices for research software registries and repositories |
| topic | Best practices Research software repository Research software registry Software metadata Repository policies Research software registry guidelines |
| url | https://peerj.com/articles/cs-1023.pdf |
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