Software publications with rich metadata: state of the art, automated workflows and HERMES concept

Understand

To satisfy the principles of FAIR software, software sustainability and software citation, research software must be formally published.

• Publication repositories make this possible and provide published software versions with unique and persistent identifiers.
• However, software publication is still a tedious, mostly manual process.
• To streamline software publication, HERMES, a project funded by the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration, develops automated workflows to publish research software with rich metadata.