Leibniz MMS Days 2019 - Abstract
Teschke, Olaf
In the last years, many initiatives and activities have developed methods, tools, and services which make scientific software findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable (FAIR principles). The swMATH project provides information about an extensive collection of mathematical software products and supports directly the first FAIR principle. The publication-based approach extracts software citations in publications by heuristic means. The Software Citation Implementation Working Group of the FORCE11 develops a software citation standard which would improve software references and searching by software. The CodeMeta Initiative works on metadata models for the description of software. Another important project is the Software Heritage Initiative. It has been started in the last year with the aim to comprehensively archive Open Source software. It collects the complete history of the development process of a software. In the talk, we will present the initiatives described above and show how we can combine the activities to improve the software information in swMATH.