Metadata initiatives

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Collaborations intended to harmonize the chaos regarding metadata and linked data about Software.

List of initiatives and contacts

FORCE11-
- Software Citation working group
- Software Citation Implementation working group
Software Preservation Network (SPN) - Metadata Standards and Policies working group- Katherine Thornton and Elizabeth Roke
CodeMeta
AboutCode- discover and uncover data about software code. A nexB project. - Philippe Ombredanne
BNF

Issues for discussion

In the effort of harmonizing metadata :
- should we strive to contain all domains, every use case and every exception?
- should we keep only the vital minimum for citation and search?
Terminology ;
- distinguishing between a software entity and a software project
- distinguishing between software "object"(executable) and software source code

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