HERMES: Automated software publication with rich metadata

Abstract

Publication of research software is an important step in making software more discoverable. Ideally, rich metadata are published alongside software artifacts to further enable software comprehension, citation, and reuse ("FAIR software"). The provision of these metadata is currently often an arduous manual process, as is its curation. A new project in the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration, HERMES, aims to automate software publication with rich metadata from individual source code repositories, by retrieving, collating and validating metadata, and depositing them with software artifacts in publication repositories. This talk outlines the concept and implementation of the project and its outcomes.