The Software Reference Library is an experimental top-level system collection in ScienceBase designed to provide an alternative organization to software assets cataloged in ScienceBase. It was inspired by the development of the Biogeographic Information System and is a virtual component of that framework. The experimental aspect of this for ScienceBase is the overall flattening of the hierarchical system, which has become entirely too complex over time. The Software Reference Library houses items that describe software. In general one of the primary functions of these items is to provide direction to source code that may exist on USGS infrastructure (e.g., myUSGS BitBucket Server) and/or in a third party repository system (e.g., GitHub). [...]
Summary
The Software Reference Library is an experimental top-level system collection in ScienceBase designed to provide an alternative organization to software assets cataloged in ScienceBase. It was inspired by the development of the Biogeographic Information System and is a virtual component of that framework. The experimental aspect of this for ScienceBase is the overall flattening of the hierarchical system, which has become entirely too complex over time. The Software Reference Library houses items that describe software. In general one of the primary functions of these items is to provide direction to source code that may exist on USGS infrastructure (e.g., myUSGS BitBucket Server) and/or in a third party repository system (e.g., GitHub). The ScienceBase Items may serve as landing pages for Digital Object Identifiers created for the software items, leveraging the ScienceBase capability to generate and maintain DOIs dynamically.
The Software Reference Library houses data items for reference and use as part of a research infrastructure.
Rights
In general, software in this collection is produced by the USGS and is available in the public domain, free of any license. Individual software items may have separate rights or licenses.
