D3.2 Catalogue of RSQkit Tools

The EVERSE project aims to create a framework for Research Software and code excellence, collaboratively designed and championed by the research communities across five EOSC Science Clusters and national Research Software Expertise Centres, in pursuit of building a European network of Research Software Quality and setting the foundations of a future Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence. 

As part of the EVERSE project, Work Package 3 (WP3) aims to connect existing individual tools and services with developers and EOSC Science Clusters in three steps: 
1. Collecting existing tools and services for software (including all forms of executable 
code) quality, 
2. Linking them in common pipelines or frameworks, and 
3. Integrating them with platforms used in the EOSC Science Clusters. 

In this demonstrator D3.2, we describe the initial catalogue of tools and services used to assess and improve research software quality, associated metadata and FAIRness.  
The aim of this catalogue is two-fold. Firstly, thru TechRadar [1], it provides a structured, searchable, and interactive way for users to explore and discover new tools based on function, compatibility, use case and community adoption. This enables users to quickly find the tools they need, based on an (opinionated) recommendation from EVERSE. 

Secondly, this catalogue serves as the master source of information on research software quality tools for RSQKit [2]. Tools present in this catalogue will be integrated into RSQKit by linking them to good practices, which contain extensive and in-depth guidelines on developing, collaborating on and improving the quality of research software. New good practices descriptions will be added if tools do not fit into existing descriptions yet. 

In the following sections, we will describe the curation process that led to the current selection of tools, provide a brief overview of this current selection (as shown in the TechRadar), and describe in more detail how these tools will be adopted into RSQKit and linked to the best practices as proposed by WP2.   This deliverable is a follow-up to D3.1 [3], in which an initial list of tools and services was created, and MS8 [4], where these tools and services were evaluated in against the initial good practices, as described in MS4 [5]