Forschungssoftware in Bibliotheken

Software is increasingly acknowledged as valid research output. Academic libraries adapt to this change to become research software-ready. Software publication and citation are key areas in this endeavor. We present and discuss the current state of the practice of software publication and software citation, and discuss four areas of activity that libraries engage in: (1) technical infrastructure, (2) training and support, (3) software management and curation, (4) policies.Software wird zunehmend als gültiges Forschungsergebnis anerkannt. Wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken passen sich diesem Wandel an, um für Forschungssoftware gerüstet zu sein. Softwarepublikation und -zitierung sind hierbei Schlüsselbereiche. Wir präsentieren und diskutieren hier den aktuellen Praxisstand und heben vier Bereiche hervor, in denen Bibliotheken aktiv werden können, um für Forschungssoftware gerüstet zu sein: (1) technische Infrastruktur, (2) Schulung und Support, (3) Management und Kuratierung von Software, (4) Richtlinien.Peer Reviewe

HERMES: Research Software on Wings

Slides for short introductions on the HERMES project for a DINI Workshop "Manage research software" (2022-09-16) and NFDI "Towards a NFDI Software Marketplace" (2022-09-19).This project (ZT-I-PF-3-006) was funded by the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association in the framework of the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration's 2020 project call

Advancing Software Citation Implementation (Software Citation Workshop 2022)

Software is foundationally important to scientific and social progress, however, traditional acknowledgment of the use of others' work has not adapted in step with the rapid development and use of software in research. This report outlines a series of collaborative discussions that brought together an international group of stakeholders and experts representing many communities, forms of labor, and expertise. Participants addressed specific challenges about software citation that have so far gone unresolved. The discussions took place in summer 2022 both online and in-person and involved a total of 51 participants. The activities described in this paper were intended to identify and prioritize specific software citation problems, develop (potential) interventions, and lay out a series of mutually supporting approaches to address them. The outcomes of this report will be useful for the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) community, repository managers and curators, research software developers, and publishers

Towards Research Software-ready Libraries: Forschungssoftware in Bibliotheken

Software is increasingly acknowledged as valid research output. Academic libraries adapt to this change to become research software-ready. Software publication and citation are key areas in this endeavor. We present and discuss the current state of the practice of software publication and software citation, and discuss four areas of activity that libraries engage in: (1) technical infrastructure, (2) training and support, (3) software management and curation, (4) policies

Software publications with rich metadata: state of the art, automated workflows and HERMES concept

To satisfy the principles of FAIR software, software sustainability and software citation, research software must be formally published. Publication repositories make this possible and provide published software versions with unique and persistent identifiers. However, software publication is still a tedious, mostly manual process. To streamline software publication, HERMES, a project funded by the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration, develops automated workflows to publish research software with rich metadata. The tooling developed by the project utilizes continuous integration solutions to retrieve, collate, and process existing metadata in source repositories, and publish them on publication repositories, including checks against existing metadata requirements. To accompany the tooling and enable researchers to easily reuse it, the project also provides comprehensive documentation and templates for widely used CI solutions. In this paper, we outline the concept for these workflows, and describe how our solution advance the state of the art in research software publication

HERMES: Automated software publication with rich metadata

Publication of research software is an important step in making software more discoverable. Ideally, rich metadata are published alongside software artifacts to further enable software comprehension, citation, and reuse ("FAIR software"). The provision of these metadata is currently often an arduous manual process, as is its curation. A new project in the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration, HERMES, aims to automate software publication with rich metadata from individual source code repositories, by retrieving, collating and validating metadata, and depositing them with software artifacts in publication repositories. This talk outlines the concept and implementation of the project and its outcomes

Research software on wings: Automating software publication with rich metadata

Publishing your research software in a publication repository is the first step on the path to making your software FAIR! But the publication of just the software itself is not quite enough: To truly enable findability, accessibility and reproducibility, as well as making your software correctly citable and unlock credit for your work, your software publication must come with the rich metadata that support these goals. But where will these metadata come from? And who should compile and publish them? Will RSEs have to become metadata experts as well now? In this talk, we argue that source code repositories and connected platforms often already provide many useful metadata, even if they are distributed over heterogeneous sources. We present an open source software toolchain that will help harvest these metadata, process and collate them, preparing them for submission to publication repositories. This toolchain can be automated via continuous integration platforms, and publish the prepared metadata with or without the respective software artifacts for open and closed source software alike. It can also feed the collated metadata back to source code repositories, or provide them in different formats for further reuse. The talk will outline the concept for the automated publication of research software with rich metadata and describe the current state of the software toolchain that is being developed. It will also detail the CI and publication platforms it will initially be available for, additional resources such as documentation and training materials, and give an outlook on sustainability and future development

HERMES: Automated software publication with rich metadata

Publication of research software is an important step in making software more discoverable. Ideally, rich metadata are published alongside software artifacts to further enable software comprehension, citation, and reuse ("FAIR software"). The provision of these metadata is currently often an arduous manual process, as is its curation. A new project in the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration, HERMES, aims to automate software publication with rich metadata from individual source code repositories, by retrieving, collating and validating metadata, and depositing them with software artifacts in publication repositories. This talk outlines the concept and implementation of the project and its outcomes

Project HERMES: Automated FAIR4RS software publication with HERMES

Software as an important method and output of research should follow the RDA "FAIR for Research Software Principles". In practice, this means that research software, whether open, inner or closed source, should be published with rich metadata to enable FAIR4RS. For research software practitioners, this currently often means following an arduous and mostly manual process of software publication. HERMES, a project funded by the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration, aims to alleviate this situation. We develop configurable, executable workflows for the publication of rich metadata for research software, alongside the software itself. These workflows follow a push-based approach: they use existing continuous integration solutions, integrated in common code platforms such as GitHub or GitLab, to harvest, unify and collate software metadata from source code repositories and code platform APIs. They also manage curation of unified metadata, and deposits on publication platforms. These deposits are based on deposition requirements and curation steps defined by a targeted publication platform, the depositing institution, or a software management plan. In addition, the HERMES project works to make the widely-used publication platforms InvenioRDM and Dataverse "research software-ready", i.e., able to ingest software publications with rich metadata, and represent software publications and metadata in a way that supports findability, assessability and accessibility of the published software versions. Beyond the open source workflow software, HERMES will openly provide templates for different continuous integration solutions, extensive documentation, and training material. Thus, researchers are enabled to adapt automated software publication quickly and easily. In this presentation, we provide an overview of the project aims, its current status, and an outlook on future development

Automated FAIR4RS software publication with HERMES

Software as an important method and output of research should follow the RDA "FAIR for Research Software Principles". In practice, this means that research software, whether open, inner or closed source, should be published with rich metadata to enable FAIR4RS. For research software practitioners, this currently often means following an arduous and mostly manual process of software publication. HERMES, a project funded by the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration, aims to alleviate this situation. We develop configurable, executable workflows for the publication of rich metadata for research software, alongside the software itself. These workflows follow a push-based approach: they use existing continuous integration solutions, integrated in common code platforms such as GitHub or GitLab, to harvest, unify and collate software metadata from source code repositories and code platform APIs. They also manage curation of unified metadata, and deposits on publication platforms. These deposits are based on deposition requirements and curation steps defined by a targeted publication platform, the depositing institution, or a software management plan. In addition, the HERMES project works to make the widely-used publication platforms InvenioRDM and Dataverse "research software-ready", i.e., able to ingest software publications with rich metadata, and represent software publications and metadata in a way that supports findability, assessability and accessibility of the published software versions. Beyond the open source workflow software, HERMES will openly provide templates for different continuous integration solutions, extensive documentation, and training material. Thus, researchers are enabled to adapt automated software publication quickly and easily. Our poster presents a high-level overview of the HERMES concept, its status and an outlook