OntoSoft

"The goal of the OntoSoft project is to enable the creation of a germinal ecosystem for software stewardship in geosciences that will empower scientists to manage their software as valuable scientific assets in an open transparent mode that enables broader access to that software by other scientists, software professionals, students, and decision makers.

Scientific software stewardship requires a combination of cyberinfrastructure, social infrastructure, and professional development infrastructure. Our cross-disciplinary team has had direct experience with a variety of aspects of the scientific software lifecycle, from conception to development, deployment, characterization, integration, composition, and dissemination through open source communities and geosciences modeling frameworks.

The OntoSoft project is developing an on-line community portal for sharing knowledge about geosciences software. In the initial stages of the project, we are developing a portal that will provide:

1. Intelligent assistance to describe software: how to use it appropriately, what kinds of data, how it relates to other software, and other important metadata that helps promote reuse
2. Sophisticated search capabilities to find software for specific needs
3. Interactive advice on software sharing, including open source publication, forming successful developer communities, and other software sharing topics

A detailed description can be found in this paper:

• OntoSoft: Capturing Scientific Software Metadata. Gil, Y.; Ratnakar, V.; and Garijo, D. In Proceedings of the Eighth ACM International Conference on Knowledge Capture, Palisades, NY, 2015.

The source code for OntoSoft can be found on github."

http://www.ontosoft.org/
 
https://github.com/IKCAP/ontosoft