Software Metadata - What is it? How does it help? How do I include it in my repos?

As (research) software finally gains the recognition as a valuable scientific output, describing/referencing software becomes also more important to follow scientific good practice. Hence, software artefacts need to have descriptive metadata to enable compliance with the FAIR principles and, thus, also an integration into the well established curation processes of the scientific libraries.

In this proposed breakout session the following topics will be covered:

• What is possible with metadata enriched software?
• What are the metadata requirements for software?
• How can they be included?
• How can they be lead to additional value for the authors/contributors of the software?

Session chair(s)

• Guido Juckeland, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
• Stephan Druskat, German Aerospace Center (DLR e.V.), Berlin

Time

Thu., Sep. 28 09:00 - 10:30

Room

Workshop B