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Software metadata

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Read the linked Software.ac.uk post and codemeta.github.io first to determine the intended metadata work. The issue names no files, tests, entry point, or acceptance criteria, so the destination and definition of done need clarification before implementation.

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notes

Here's a post and website with information about the latest efforts to standardise the metadata associated with published research software:
https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2021-05-20-what-are-formats-tools-and-techniques-harvesting-metadata-software-repositories
https://codemeta.github.io/

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1
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