Overview

Software in ScienceSoft is any software product or service providing functionality targeted to scientific research. Software products can be desktop or web applications, middleware, tools, testsuites and any other piece of software developed in support of scientific research. Services can be provided by Organizations or Collaborations to support specific activities, like cloud-based services (IaaS, AaaS, SaaS, etc.), software engineering services (testing, certification, etc.) or support and consultancy services.

New Software can be registered by any authenticated user. Once a software product or service is registered, the user becomes the owner of that software page and can edit the existing content, but not delete the page altogether. Before Software can be registered, it is necessary to login with a valid ScienceSoft account.

 

Authentication and Login

Before you can login into ScienceSoft, you need to have a valid account. For the time being valid accounts are standard CERN accounts or lightweight CERN accounts. Lightweight CERN account can be provided to anybody having a valid e-mail address and can be used on a number of CERN-hosted applications, including ScienceSoft. Login using Facebook, Gmail or other OpenID accounts is being set up. For more information, please refer to the Login page

 

Where to go to register new Software

Once you are logged in, click on the Software link in the top menu of any page. The page provides links to register new Software or search for registered Software. Click on "Register new Software" to go to the registration form.

 

The "Create Software" form

The form to register new Software is called "Create Software". It contains a number of fields to set various properties of the Software. Mandatory fields are marked with a red asterisk (*) in the form:

Name:  the short name or acronym of the software product or service

Full name:  the full extended name of the software

Description:  a description of the software, it's main features, uses, etc. The first few words of the Description are also used as Summary in the teaser form when your Software is displayed as part of the result of a search or similar list views. You can modify the Summary to be displayed by using the "Edit Summary" link above the Description text box

Logo:  an optional logo, it must be an image of type png, gif, jpg, or jpeg of max 5 MB size. If its resolution is higher than 512x512 px, it will be automatically resized

Status:  the current development status.

Category:  the type of software. Choose the category that best describes it. If none of the category applies, please let us know at ScienceSoft Support

Features:  an optional comma-separated list of features provided by the software. Type a few letters to get hints or add your own.

Scientific disciplines:  one or more scientific fields of applicability of this software. Type a few letters to get hints or add your own.

Manager:  the person in charge of this product or service. It must be a register ScienceSoft member.

Contributors:  one or more contributors to this product or service. They must be registered ScienceSoft memmbers. If the Manager is also a Contributor, they must be repeated here (for now).

Contributing Organizations:  the Organizations contributing to this product or service. Type a few letters to get hints from the registered ScienceSoft Organizations.

Contributing Collaborations:  the Collaborations contributing to this product or service. Type a few letters to get hints from the registered ScienceSoft Collaborations.

Contact:  the URL or email address to use to get more information or support for this software product or service.

License:  the license under which this software is distributed. It must be a valid OSI license.

Source code location:  one ore more URLs with optional titles where the source code for this software is available for download

Distribution channel:  One or more URLs with optional titles where the packages for this software can be downloaded. For example, it can be the URL of a page on an operating system distribution web site or a public open source repository.

Supported OS:  a comma-separated list of supported operating systems. Type a few letters to get hints or add your own.

Architecture:  the supported architecture, select all that apply (press ctrl to select multiple entries).

Languages:  the programming languages used in this software, select all that apply (press ctrl to select multiple entries).

Build tools:  a comma-separated list of build tools used to develop and package this software. Type a few letters to get hints or add your own.

Test tools:  a comma-separated list of test tools used to test and certify this software. Type a few letters to get hints or add your own.

 

Questions?

If you have any question on the process of registering new Software or suggestions about how to improve it, please feel free to post comments at the bottom of the page or send a message to the ScienceSoft Support team