About RSFC

RSFC (Research Software Fairness Checks) is a command‑line tool a Python library developed at the Ontology Engineering Group – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Given a GitHub or GitLab repository URL, RSFC performs a series of checks based on a list of research software quality indicators (RSQI).

Covered indicators and FRSM metrics

Indicator IDFRSM metric
Software has persistent and unique identifier
FRSM‑01
FRSM‑07
Software has releases
FRSM‑03
Software follows versioning standards
FRSM‑03
Software has descriptive metadata
FRSM‑04
FRSM‑05
FRSM‑06
Software has documentation
FRSM‑04
FRSM‑05
Software makes use of version control
FRSM‑05
FRSM‑09
FRSM‑17
Software is archived in Software Heritage
FRSM‑08
Software uses citation
FRSM‑12
Software specifies requirements
FRSM‑13
Software provides tests
FRSM‑14
Software has continuous integration tests
FRSM‑14
Software has license
FRSM‑15
FRSM‑16

More information on FRSM metrics is available here: 10.5281/zenodo.15535629

Authors & Maintainers

Daniel Garijo (OEG‑UPM)
Andrés Montero (OEG‑UPM)
Juan Jesús Mendoza (OEG‑UPM)

More information

Explore the project on GitHub or visit the OEG‑UPM homepage.