Descriptive review of already existing solutions and plans regarding software marketplaces in NFDI

nfdi.software builds on experience and existing use cases

nfdi.software envisions a central marketplace where distributed software metadata is collected and linked. With this vision, nfdi.software joins a number of similar existing solutions from which we would like to learn and reflect on our differences in order to highlight the added value we strive to achieve.
Despite existing solutions, the needs and use cases of our national, German research landscape are not sufficiently addressed. The need for a national research data infrastructure is an opportunity to advance the state of the art in research data management. nfdi.software will not be an island. We will use existing solutions, learn from them, and integrate them. In Papers With Code, we see proof of concept that community-driven marketplaces for research software work. We want to advance this concept by focusing on the needs in our national context towards an NFDI.

Further information can be found here:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15424304

Authors:
Höffner, Konrad; Löbe, Matthias