Code as a research object: (new phase) standardizing software metadata | Mozilla Science Lab

"At the Science Lab, we want to help research thrive on the open web. Part of this is working with other community members to build technical prototypes that move science on the web forward. Earlier this year we saw several prototypes come out of the ‘Code as a Research Object’ collaboration. Since then, there’s been more conversation and effort in this space and we wanted to share our progress and invite the community to give input ... When I was at NCEAS Open Science CodeFest (OSCodeFest) last month, I led a discussion around the work being done here. I was joined by Matt Jones, Carly Strasser and Corinna Gries, and we agreed that some standards need to be set to help more groups store software in a citable and interoperable manner.  Building on the existing discussions and proposals in the community, we compared the exiting schemas for code storage to help create a   metadata standard that allows for discoverability, reuse and citation. You can see the notes from our discussion here.  This led to the creation of the codemeta GitHub repo to store a minimal metadata schema for science software in code in JSON-LD and XML. Since then, we’ve worked on refining the proposed metadata schema and creating mappings between some existing popular data stores. Coming soon: Matt Jones will be blogging on some of the more technical aspects of this project ... We’re looking for feedback on our current proposed metadata schema for code discovery, reuse and citation ..."