Nine Best Practices for Research Software Registries and Repositories: A Concise Guide
Task Force On Best Practices For Software Registries
,
Alain Monteil
(1, 2)
,
Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran
(3)
,
Alexandros Ioannidis
(4)
,
Alice Allen
(5)
,
Allen Lee
(6)
,
Anita Bandrowski
(7)
,
Bruce E. Wilson
(8)
,
Bryce Mecum
(9)
,
Cai Fan Du
(10)
,
Carly Robinson
(11)
,
Daniel Garijo
(12)
,
Daniel S. Katz
(13)
,
David Long
(14)
,
Genevieve Milliken
(15)
,
Hervé Ménager
(16)
,
Jessica Hausman
(17)
,
Jurriaan H. Spaaks
(18)
,
Katrina Fenlon
(5)
,
Kristin Vanderbilt
(19)
,
Lorraine Hwang
(20)
,
Lynn Davis
(11)
,
Martin Fenner
(21)
,
Michael R. Crusoe
(22)
,
Michael Hucka
(23)
,
Mingfang Wu
(24)
,
Neil Chue Hong
(25)
,
Peter Teuben
(5)
,
Shelley Stall
(26)
,
Stephan Druskat
(27, 28, 29)
,
Ted Carnevale
(30)
,
Thomas Morrell
(23)
1
INRIA-IES -
Information et Édition Scientifiques
2 Software Heritage
3 STFC - Science and Technology Facilities Council
4 CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
5 University of Maryland [College Park]
6 ASU - Arizona State University [Tempe]
7 UC San Diego - University of California [San Diego]
8 ORNL - Oak Ridge National Laboratory [Oak Ridge]
9 UC Santa Barbara - University of California [Santa Barbara]
10 University of Texas at Austin [Austin]
11 DOE-OSTI - U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information
12 USC - University of Southern California
13 UIUC - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Urbana]
14 BYU - Brigham Young University
15 NYU - New York University [New York]
16 IP - Institut Pasteur [Paris]
17 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
18 Netherlands eScience Center
19 The University of New Mexico [Albuquerque]
20 UC Davis - University of California [Davis]
21 DataCite
22 Common Workflow Language project
23 CALTECH - California Institute of Technology
24 ARDC - Australian Research Data Commons
25 Edin. - University of Edinburgh
26 American Geophysical Union [Washington]
27 DLR - German Aerospace Center
28 Friedrich-Schiller-Universität = Friedrich Schiller University Jena [Jena, Germany]
29 HU Berlin - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin = Humboldt University of Berlin = Université Humboldt de Berlin
30 Yale University [New Haven]
2 Software Heritage
3 STFC - Science and Technology Facilities Council
4 CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
5 University of Maryland [College Park]
6 ASU - Arizona State University [Tempe]
7 UC San Diego - University of California [San Diego]
8 ORNL - Oak Ridge National Laboratory [Oak Ridge]
9 UC Santa Barbara - University of California [Santa Barbara]
10 University of Texas at Austin [Austin]
11 DOE-OSTI - U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information
12 USC - University of Southern California
13 UIUC - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Urbana]
14 BYU - Brigham Young University
15 NYU - New York University [New York]
16 IP - Institut Pasteur [Paris]
17 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
18 Netherlands eScience Center
19 The University of New Mexico [Albuquerque]
20 UC Davis - University of California [Davis]
21 DataCite
22 Common Workflow Language project
23 CALTECH - California Institute of Technology
24 ARDC - Australian Research Data Commons
25 Edin. - University of Edinburgh
26 American Geophysical Union [Washington]
27 DLR - German Aerospace Center
28 Friedrich-Schiller-Universität = Friedrich Schiller University Jena [Jena, Germany]
29 HU Berlin - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin = Humboldt University of Berlin = Université Humboldt de Berlin
30 Yale University [New Haven]
Task Force On Best Practices For Software Registries
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Alain Monteil
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Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran
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Alice Allen
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Hervé Ménager
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Neil Chue Hong
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Shelley Stall
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Résumé
Scientific software registries and repositories serve various roles in their respective disciplines. These resources improve software discoverability and research transparency, provide information for software citations, and foster preservation of computational methods that might otherwise be lost over time, thereby supporting research reproducibility and replicability. However, developing these resources takes effort, and few guidelines are available to help prospective creators of registries and repositories. To address this need, we present a set of nine best practices that can help managers define the scope, practices, and rules that govern individual registries and repositories. These best practices were distilled from the experiences of the creators of existing resources, convened by a Task Force of the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group during the years 2019-2020. We believe that putting in place specific policies such as those presented here will help scientific software registries and repositories better serve their users and their disciplines.
