A FAIRification roadmap for ELIXIR Software Management Plans - Poster

Similar to Data Management Plans, Software Management Plans help formalize a set of structures and goals that ensure the software is accessible and reusable in the short, medium and long term. The ELIXIR SMP (DOI:10.37044/osf.io/k8znb) has been developed by the ELIXIR Software Development Best Practices Group in the ELIXIR Tools Platform to support researchers in life sciences. Although targeting the life sciences community, most of the elements of the ELIXIR SMPs are domain agnostic and could be used by other communities as well. DMPs and SMPs can be presented as text-based documents, sometimes guided by a set of questions corresponding to key points related to the lifecycle of either data or software. The FAIRification road for ELIXIR SMPs include two main components: turning them into machine-actionable SMPs (maSMPs) and aligning them to FAIR Digital Objects (FDOs). Our maSMP version will be based on the machine-actionable DMPs proposed by the Research Data Alliance DMP Common Standards Working Group, which corresponds to a structured representation of the most common elements present in a DMP (DOI:10.15497/rda00039) while the alignment with FDOs will be supported by Research Object Crates (RO-Crates). An RO-Crate (DOI:10.3233/DS-210053) is an open, community-driven, and lightweight approach based on schema.org annotations. This poster corresponds to the FDO2022 conference publication https://riojournal.com/article/94608/element/4/800089