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Making Software FAIR: A machine-assisted workflow for the research software lifecycle

KNOTH, P.; LAURENT, R.; LOPEZ, P.; DI COSMO, R.; SMRŽ, P.; UMERLE, T.; HARRISON, M.; MONTEIL, A.; CANCELLIERI, M.; PRIDE, D. Making Software FAIR: A machine-assisted workflow for the research software lifecycle. 2024.
Type
article - other
Language
English
Authors
Knoth Petr
Laurent Romary
Lopez Patrice
Di Cosmo Roberto
Smrž Pavel, doc. RNDr., Ph.D., DCGM (FIT)
Umerle Tomasz
Harrison Melissa
Monteil Alain
Cancellieri Matteo
Pride David
Abstract

A key issue hindering discoverability, attribution and reusability of open research software is that its existence often remains hidden within the manuscript of research papers. For these resources to become first-class bibliographic records, they first need to be identified and subsequently registered with persistent identifiers (PIDs) to be made FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). To this day, much open research software fails to meet FAIR principles and software resources are mostly not explicitly linked from the manuscripts that introduced them or used them.

SoFAIR is a 2-year international project (2024-2025) which proposes a solution to the above problem realised over the content available through the global network of open repositories. SoFAIR will extend the capabilities of widely used open scholarly infrastructures (CORE, Software Heritage, HAL) and tools (GROBID) operated by the consortium partners, delivering and deploying an effective solution for the
management of the research software lifecycle, including: 1) ML-assisted identification of research software assets from within the manuscripts of scholarly papers, 2) validation of the identified assets by authors, 3) registration of software assets with PIDs and their archival.

Keywords

reproducibility; open science; repositories; software assets

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Published
2024
DOI
BibTeX
@misc{BUT200729,
  author="{} and  {} and  {} and  {} and Pavel {Smrž} and  {} and  {} and  {} and  {} and  {}",
  title="Making Software FAIR: A machine-assisted workflow for the research software lifecycle",
  year="2024",
  doi="10.48550/arXiv.2501.10415",
  url="https://oro.open.ac.uk/102429/",
  note="Article - other"
}
Projects
Making Software FAIR: Identifying and Extracting Software Mentions from Open Research Papers and Registering them with PIDs, TAČR, CHRIST-ERA Call Open Research Data, TH86010002, start: 2024-01-01, end: 2025-12-31, completed
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