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The Tools Group develops and maintains a community specification for describing life science tools.

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Objectives
  1. This group investigates the required extensions to schema.org to support the description of software tools, applications, releases and source code.
  2. A specific use case is supporting machine-actionable Software Management Plans (maSMPS)

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Further Details

Research software is a fundamental element in research. Research software recognition and citation, together with software management plans will improve reproducibility in science.

For the specific use case around machine-actionable software management plans, this group has taken as a starting point the metadata schemas produced as part of the maSMPs project lead by the Semantic Technologies group at ZB MED, with funding from RDA/EOSC-Future horizon 2020 Framework Programme (no. 101017536) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (project no. 460234259 corresponding to the NFDI4DataScience consortium). Such metadata schemas were created taking as basis the ELIXIR SMPs created by the ELIXIR Software Best Practices group, and later aligned to other related efforts (e.g., SMPs in RDMO, SMPs by eScience Center Netherlands). The maSMPs also take into account the maDMPs produced by the RDA-DMP-Common-Standard.