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Research software is an integral part of scientific investigations.

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This is what Struck wrote in 2018 in a contribution to the 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science)\n(doi:10.1109/eScience.2018.00016). I very much agree with this,\nand the notion is gaining ground in the academic community. Their paper “identifies challenges, risks and new opportunities\nin research software publication and discovery”.

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At the same conference, Spaaks et al. presented a lightning talk about the\nResearch Software Directory (RSD),\n“a content management system for research software, which promotes the visibility, reuse, and impact of research software”\n(doi:10.1109/eScience.2018.00013).

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I wonder who spoke first at the meeting.

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Anyway, I learned about RSD a while ago already and have been using it for some of our\ngroup’s research software. We don’t have a collection for our group, but you will find them\nunder the Maastricht University organisation page.

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And as sketched by Struck and implemented by Spaaks et al., RSD gives rich context\nto the research software. It can track the activity on the project (for GitHub, GitLab,\nCodeberg etc),\ntrack citations to key literature, and can have links to distributions where the software is published\n(like Debian, CRAN, Bioconductor, etc).

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This is what it looks like for the Chemistry Development Kit:

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I like initiatives like this, as they help the community work out open standards to exchange\nmetadata, and encourage other projects by reusing their APIs.

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References

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Spaaks, J. H., Klaver, T., Verhoeven, S., Maassen, J., Bakker, T., van der Ploeg, A., van Werkhoven, B., van Hage, W., & van Nieuwpoort, R. V. (2018). Painting the Picture of Software Impact with the Research Software Directory. 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on E-Science (e-Science), 23–24. https://doi.org/10.1109/escience.2018.00013 CrossRef Scholia
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Struck, A. (2018). Research Software Discovery: An Overview. 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on E-Science (e-Science), 33–37. https://doi.org/10.1109/escience.2018.00016 CrossRef Scholia
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