Missing options in fields

[Matthew-MacLeod-gc]

I am in the process of submitting two codesets supporting scientific journal papers, and have some feedback on the form fields:

• None of the Category options feel like a good match to this kind of work. Options like "Scientific analysis" and/or "Data analysis" would be useful. As more and more journals require both data and code to be openly available, researchers and scientists will be producing more open code supporting - and often that code is reading in data, analyzing it, and producing figures for the paper.
• R is not listed as a programming language
• The form requires a 'French license URL' - my understanding is for most open source licenses (e.g., MIT, GPL), only the English language version is official, so not sure how to handle that. Should that field be optional?

[smellems]

Hi @Matthew-MacLeod-gc thanks for contributing to the ORE and providing feedback.

• For the category, it's based on UNSPSC Software categories. Maybe "Educational or reference software"

• For the programming language, you should be able to add it using the form. I think it's not listed because there are no project on the ORE using R.

• For the licenses it's true that OSS licenses are mostly English but some projects, like WET, provide a French translation of their license. Having it optional or an option to say that link is the same in French would be a good enhancement.

[Matthew-MacLeod-gc]

Thanks for this. Our external relations folks will be filling out the form, and I suggested they fill in R, so that should handle that.

For the software categories, the ORE has categories for both 'code' and 'software,' although the forms are very similar. I would say what goes along with most scientific papers is 'code' rather than 'software,' so a different categorization may be helpful there. See e.g., the concept of 'reproducible research': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducibility#Reproducible_research - we're not aiming to produce a finished piece of software that performs a variety of functions, it's about allowing others to reproduce the results presented in a peer-reviewed paper.

[smellems]

The Code section on the ORE is for open source code developed and released by the GC or other Canadian public administrations. ex.: WET, Apogy, ..

Software is for 3rd party open source software used by the GC or other Canadian public administrations. ex.: Firefox, MySQL, ..

I think your entry should be in Code. But in the end, its all "software" for the category.