Deposit metadata#

When making a software deposit into the SWH archive, one can add information describing the software artifact and the software project.

Metadata requirements#

the schema/vocabulary used MUST be specified with a persistent url (DublinCore, DOAP, CodeMeta, etc.)

<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
or
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
       xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">
or
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
       xmlns:codemeta="https://doi.org/10.5063/SCHEMA/CODEMETA-2.0">

the name of the software deposit MUST be provided [atom:title,
codemeta:name, dcterms:title]
the authors of the software deposit MUST be provided
the url representing the location of the source MAY be provided under the url tag. The url will be used for creating an origin object in the archive.
```
<codemeta:url>http://example.com/my_project</codemeta:url>
```
the create_origin tag SHOULD be used to specify the URL of the origin to create (otherwise, a fallback is created using the slug, or a random string if missing)
the description of the software deposit SHOULD be provided [codemeta:description]: short or long description of the software
the license/s of the software deposit SHOULD be provided [codemeta:license]
other metadata MAY be added with terms defined by the schema in use.

Examples#

Using only Atom#

<?xml version="1.0"?>
    <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
             xmlns:swhdeposit="https://www.softwareheritage.org/schema/2018/deposit">
        <title>Awesome Compiler</title>
        <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a</id>
        <updated>2017-10-07T15:17:08Z</updated>
        <author>some awesome author</author>
        <swhdeposit:deposit>
          <swhdeposit:create_origin>
            <swhdeposit:origin url="http://example.com/my_project" />
          </swhdeposit:create_origin>
        </swhdeposit:deposit>
</entry>

Using Atom with CodeMeta#

<?xml version="1.0"?>
    <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
             xmlns:codemeta="https://doi.org/10.5063/SCHEMA/CODEMETA-2.0"
             xmlns:swhdeposit="https://www.softwareheritage.org/schema/2018/deposit">
        <title>Awesome Compiler</title>
        <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a</id>
        <swhdeposit:deposit>
          <swhdeposit:create_origin>
            <swhdeposit:origin url="http://example.com/1785io25c695" />
          </swhdeposit:create_origin>
        </swhdeposit:deposit>
        <codemeta:id>1785io25c695</codemeta:id>
        <codemeta:url>origin url</codemeta:url>
        <codemeta:identifier>other identifier, DOI, ARK</codemeta:identifier>
        <codemeta:applicationCategory>Domain</codemeta:applicationCategory>

        <codemeta:description>description</codemeta:description>
        <codemeta:keywords>key-word 1</codemeta:keywords>
        <codemeta:keywords>key-word 2</codemeta:keywords>
        <codemeta:dateCreated>creation date</codemeta:dateCreated>
        <codemeta:datePublished>publication date</codemeta:datePublished>
        <codemeta:releaseNotes>comment</codemeta:releaseNotes>
        <codemeta:referencePublication>
          <codemeta:name> article name</codemeta:name>
          <codemeta:identifier> article id </codemeta:identifier>
        </codemeta:referencePublication>
        <codemeta:isPartOf>
            <codemeta:type> Collaboration/Project </codemeta:type>
            <codemeta:name> project name</codemeta:name>
            <codemeta:identifier> id </codemeta:identifier>
        </codemeta:isPartOf>
        <codemeta:relatedLink>see also </codemeta:relatedLink>
        <codemeta:funding>Sponsor A  </codemeta:funding>
        <codemeta:funding>Sponsor B</codemeta:funding>
        <codemeta:operatingSystem>Platform/OS </codemeta:operatingSystem>
        <codemeta:softwareRequirements>dependencies </codemeta:softwareRequirements>
        <codemeta:softwareVersion>Version</codemeta:softwareVersion>
        <codemeta:developmentStatus>active </codemeta:developmentStatus>
        <codemeta:license>
            <codemeta:name>license</codemeta:name>
            <codemeta:url>url spdx</codemeta:url>
        </codemeta:license>
        <codemeta:runtimePlatform>.Net Framework 3.0 </codemeta:runtimePlatform>
        <codemeta:runtimePlatform>Python2.3</codemeta:runtimePlatform>
        <codemeta:author>
            <codemeta:name> author1 </codemeta:name>
            <codemeta:affiliation> Inria </codemeta:affiliation>
            <codemeta:affiliation> UPMC </codemeta:affiliation>
        </codemeta:author>
        <codemeta:author>
            <codemeta:name> author2 </codemeta:name>
            <codemeta:affiliation> Inria </codemeta:affiliation>
            <codemeta:affiliation> UPMC </codemeta:affiliation>
        </codemeta:author>
        <codemeta:codeRepository>http://code.com</codemeta:codeRepository>
        <codemeta:programmingLanguage>language 1</codemeta:programmingLanguage>
        <codemeta:programmingLanguage>language 2</codemeta:programmingLanguage>
        <codemeta:issueTracker>http://issuetracker.com</codemeta:issueTracker>
    </entry>

Using Atom with DublinCore and CodeMeta (multi-schema entry)#

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
       xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
       xmlns:codemeta="https://doi.org/10.5063/SCHEMA/CODEMETA-2.0"
       xmlns:swhdeposit="https://www.softwareheritage.org/schema/2018/deposit">
    <title>Awesome Compiler</title>
    <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a</id>
    <swhdeposit:deposit>
      <swhdeposit:create_origin>
        <swhdeposit:origin url="http://example.com/225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a" />
      </swhdeposit:create_origin>
    <swhdeposit:deposit>
    <dcterms:identifier>hal-01587361</dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:identifier>doi:10.5281/zenodo.438684</dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:title xml:lang="en">The assignment problem</dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:title xml:lang="fr">AffectationRO</dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:creator>author</dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:subject>[INFO] Computer Science [cs]</dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject>[INFO.INFO-RO] Computer Science [cs]/Operations Research [cs.RO]</dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:type>SOFTWARE</dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:abstract xml:lang="en">Project in OR: The assignment problemA java implementation for the assignment problem first release</dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:abstract xml:lang="fr">description fr</dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:created>2015-06-01</dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:available>2017-10-19</dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:language>en</dcterms:language>


    <codemeta:url>origin url</codemeta:url>

    <codemeta:softwareVersion>1.0.0</codemeta:softwareVersion>
    <codemeta:keywords>key word</codemeta:keywords>
    <codemeta:releaseNotes>Comment</codemeta:releaseNotes>
    <codemeta:referencePublication>Rfrence interne </codemeta:referencePublication>

    <codemeta:relatedLink>link  </codemeta:relatedLink>
    <codemeta:funding>Sponsor  </codemeta:funding>

    <codemeta:operatingSystem>Platform/OS </codemeta:operatingSystem>
    <codemeta:softwareRequirements>dependencies </codemeta:softwareRequirements>
    <codemeta:developmentStatus>Ended </codemeta:developmentStatus>
    <codemeta:license>
        <codemeta:name>license</codemeta:name>
        <codemeta:url>url spdx</codemeta:url>
    </codemeta:license>

    <codemeta:codeRepository>http://code.com</codemeta:codeRepository>
    <codemeta:programmingLanguage>language 1</codemeta:programmingLanguage>
    <codemeta:programmingLanguage>language 2</codemeta:programmingLanguage>
</entry>

Note#

We aim on harmonizing the metadata from different origins and thus metadata will be translated to the CodeMeta v2.0 vocabulary if possible.

See Protocol reference for details on the content of <swh:deposit> elements.