MetaData for Software (Code as a Research Object)

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Session Information

Date	Time	Room
Sept 3	9:00 AM	San Miguel West

Basics

Title: Metadata for Software Discussion - based on Code as a Research Object
Short name: Codemeta
Organizers: Abigail Cabunoc
Repository link: CodeMeta
Issue tracking
Code as Research Object
Etherpad

Goals

Define the metadata needed to store software to make it citable, reusable and discoverable.

Tasks

Build on Arfon's work using JSON-LD for software discovery, reuse and credit to create metadata standards for software
Use the github API to autofill some of the metadata required to submit your code to figshare/Zenodo

Follow Up

You can contact me at abigail AT mozillafoundation.org. You also join the existing discussion.
A codemeta repository was created to house schemas for software metadata in JSON-LD and XML Schema, possibly among others. The work continues, so join us...