Research Software Directory - A content management system tailored to research software

This presentation introduces the Research Software Directory, a content management system tailored to research software. The system has been designed to publish metadata about software packages as easily readable, well-structured web pages, such that web page visitors can quickly judge whether the software advertised in the content management system will help them address their problems. Furthermore, the system aims to minimize the burden that is placed on content providers, i.e. the developers of a given software package. This minimization is realized by harvesting whatever data is already available from other systems such as Zotero, GitHub, and Zenodo. Such automated integration helps with keeping the Research Software Directory contents up to date and accurate. The Research Software Directory uses recent advances in machine-readable citation metadata to disseminate software reference manager files in BibTex, EndNote, and RIS formats, while promoting discovery by search engines through the use of schema.org metadata embedded within individual web pages.