awesome-rse-fair
github.com/hifis-net/awesome-rse-fair ↗An awesome list of FAIR resources for Research Software Engineers and Engineering (RSE)
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Licensing
- A Quick Guide to Software Licensing for the Scientist-Programmer
Detailed article about software licenses and obligations.
- choosealicenseTools
Helps you choose the software license that suits your needs.
- DLR Open Source Broschure
Licensing explained in detail with particular focus on German law (German only).
- Free Software Definition
Free Software Definition including remarks to licensing.
- Licensing Assistant of Interoperable EuropeTools
Allows you to compare, select and combine open-source software licenses.
- Licensing by The Turing Way Community
Complete lesson explaining basic concepts and a variety of licenses, including recent advances in terms of machine learning model licenses.
Metadata
- Asset Description Metadata Schema for Software (ADMS.SW)
- CFFINIT generator
Generate your citation metadata files with ease.
- Citation File Format (CFF)
A machine-readable but simple software citation fomrmat with supported by GitHub, Zenodo and, Zotero.
- CodeMeta generatorTools
Generate useful metadata for your software.
- CodeMeta Project
Definitions of metadata for software projects.
- CoMET-RSTools
ConnOSS metadata extraction tool for code repositories (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Bitbucket), as of 2026-09-05 under development.
Related Lists
Repositories
- Awesome Research Software Registries
List of the Netherlands eScience Center about Research Software Registries.
- SciCodes
Consortium of scientific software registries and repositories.
Search Engines
Citation
- CiteAsTools
Tool that helps by how to cite research software (and other research outcomes).
- How to cite software: current best practice.
A starter presentation on software citation.
- Research Software Citation: Cite and Make Citable
Background information on software citation in research.
- shouldaciteTools
Guidance on whether and how a software should be cited.
FAIR in general
- FAIR Principles for Research Software (FAIR4RS Principles)
recommendations of the
- howfairis
Python package to analyze a GitHub or GitLab repository's compliance with the
- SQAaaS
Software Quality Assessment as a Service. The Quality Assessment & Awarding building block analyses the level of completeness with the FAIR4RS reference criteria for any given release of your software.
Publication
- General discussion on publishing and sharing software by Code Refinery
Complete lesson explaining basic concepts and related topics: where to store the software and how to make it citable.
- HERMES WorkflowTools
The HERMES workflow enables automated publication of rich research software metadata and artifacts to publication repositories using open source tooling.
- In which journals should I publish my software?
Overview of Software Journals.
- Publishing research software
Concise guideline used in MIT when publishing research software.
- Zenodo GitHub integrationTools
Use Zenodo to quickly publish your software repository on GitHub and issue a DOI for your software.
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