Sammendrag
Research software is a critical component of computational research. Thus, being able to discover, understand and adequately utilize software is essential. All these activities rely on software metadata.
However, these metadata are sparse, expensive to maintain,
sometimes is not machine readable, and frequently inconsistent across different resources.
The ELIXIR Research Software Ecosystem acts as a proxy to
maintain and preserve high-quality metadata for describing research software, aggregating heterogeneous metadata resources from multiple providers. These providers often have different objectives when they are maintaining and aggregating metadata by themselves, as well as user communities and technical implementations.
The goals of this project are to consolidate these metadata, and facilitate their integration, curation, and re-usability by the contributors and the wider research community.
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