Software ontologies

Pointers to relevant software ontologies and software metadata, that might be used as inspiration for the upper-level/metadata part of the Software Heritage data model.

• ADMS.SW (Asset Description Metadata Schema for Software, and specifically FOSS)
• CodeMeta
  • GitHub repository
• DOAP
• Schema.org
• SEON (A family of Software Evolution ONtologies)
• SWOP (Software Ontology Project)
  • sourceforge project
  • overview blog post
• TOTEM (Trustworthy Online Technical Environment Metadata Database), for digital objects in general
• Wikidata software properties (generic)
  • FOSS-specific properties