Nine Best Practices for Research Software Registries and Repositories: A Concise Guide
Abstract
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.
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@article{arxiv.2012.13117,
title = {Nine Best Practices for Research Software Registries and Repositories: A Concise Guide},
author = {Task Force on Best Practices for Software Registries and : and Alain Monteil and Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran and Alexandros Ioannidis and Alice Allen and Allen Lee and Anita Bandrowski and Bruce E. Wilson and Bryce Mecum and Cai Fan Du and Carly Robinson and Daniel Garijo and Daniel S. Katz and David Long and Genevieve Milliken and Hervé Ménager and Jessica Hausman and Jurriaan H. Spaaks and Katrina Fenlon and Kristin Vanderbilt and Lorraine Hwang and Lynn Davis and Martin Fenner and Michael R. Crusoe and Michael Hucka and Mingfang Wu and Neil Chue Hong and Peter Teuben and Shelley Stall and Stephan Druskat and Ted Carnevale and Thomas Morrell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.13117},
year = {2020}
}
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18 pages