A Proposal for the Measurement and Documentation of Research Software Sustainability in Interactive Metadata Repositories
This addresses the challenge of ensuring sustainable research software for researchers and institutions, but it is incremental as it builds on existing metadata and management frameworks.
The paper tackles the problem of assessing research software sustainability by proposing an interactive metadata repository that computes sustainability metrics from accumulated metadata, aiming to overcome technical barriers and facilitate software discovery and documentation.
This paper proposes an interactive repository type for research software metadata which measures and documents software sustainability by accumulating metadata, and computing sustainability metrics over them. Such a repository would help to overcome technical barriers to software sustainability by furthering the discovery and identification of sustainable software, thereby also facilitating documentation of research software within the framework of software management plans.