UC4B User Conference 4 Base4NFDI 2024

nfdi.software is presenting the key features, the project plan and partners at the UC4B Conference

The first presentation of the newly launched nfdi.software project took place at the UC4B conference in Berlin. Martin Hammitzsch introduced the project partners and the project goals right here:

1. Research Software Directory (RSD)
   aims at finding and reusing cross-domain research software, stimulating reuse, encouraging proper citation, and making the impact of research software more visible
2. Bio.tools
   supported by the European Infrastructure for Biological Information (ELIXIR), where researchers can find and compare bioinformatics tools thanks to curated metadata
3. Betty’s Research Engine
   search engine that finds software repositories and links them to corresponding scientific publications and enriches the results with harmonised metadata
4. Physics.tools
   searches in publications for referenced software and automatically retrieves accessible metadata information from the code repository
   The main Approch in nfdi.software is to:

• Bring together players and build on top of their existing solutions
• Design, implement and test a central research software marketplace
• Connect complementary components
• Provide a tangible starting point for first-hand experiences
• Offer an early proof-of-concept service
• Map and link distributed metadata
• Identify strengths and weaknesses, problems and gaps
• Guide the future development in a follow-up integration phase
• Establish communication for a concerted effort
• Establish bridges to the domain-specific NFDI infrastructures and services, and the corresponding communities
• Bring together reliable contributions from consortia with the necessary impetus
• Jointly design the interplay of related consortia services
• Incorporate experiences and results of other initiatives

Author:
M. Hammitzsch et al.