Awesome Research Software Engineering FAIR
A curated awesome list of FAIR topics for Research Software Engineering (RSE). Inspired by these curated collections. Topics cover citation and licensing of RS, metadata for RS, publication of RS, registries and repositories for RS, and search engines to find RS.
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FAIR in general
Tools and stuff that addresses FAIR as a whole.
Citation
Resources about how to cite research software and how to make research software citable
Tools
Tools that assist you in citing research software.
- CiteAs - Tool that helps by how to cite research software (and other research outcomes).
- shouldacite - Guidance on whether and how a software should be cited.
Licensing
Tools
- choosealicense - Helps you choose the software license that suits your needs.
- Reuse Tool - Automate the declaring of copyright and licensing for software projects with SPDX Tags.
- SPDX License List - A list of all licenses supported by SPDX.
Metadata
This is where we list information about metadata for research software
Tools
Tools that assist you in handling metadata for research software.
- CodeMeta generator - Generate useful metadata for your software.
- SOMEF - Software Metadata Extraction Framework. A command line interface for automatically extracting relevant information from readme files.
- FAIR python cookiecutter - An opinionated cookiecutter template to kickstart a modern best-practice Python project with FAIR metadata.
- SOMESY - Somesy (software metadata sync) is a CLI tool to avoid messy software project metadata by keeping it in sync.
Publication
Resources about publishing research software.
Tools
Tools that assist you in publishing your research software.
- HERMES Workflow - The HERMES workflow enables automated publication of rich research software metadata and artifacts to publication repositories using open source tooling.
- Zenodo GitHub integration - Use Zenodo to quickly publish your software repository on GitHub and issue a DOI for your software.
Repositories
Search Engines
Search engines with options to explicitly search for software.
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