What is the Basic Service under development about?

nfdi.software aims to create a central marketplace to improve access to NFDI research software, addressing the needs of various scientific disciplines for sustainable research software use and development. It will link and coordinate independent developments within a federated data infrastructure, enhancing networking and contextualisation of research software as well as links to data and other research artefacts. The need for a central access point for research software of the NFDI consortia arises from the growing need of the scientific disciplines of the cultural sciences, humanities and social sciences, engineering and the natural and life sciences to ensure the sustainable use and further development. The platform will extract, standardise, and enrich metadata, and applies an AI approach, providing continuous monitoring of software relevance and acceptance by its users. By establishing standards and improving networking across the NFDI, the project will develop a 'Prototype for Integration' based on prior initiatives. As a central service, nfdi.software will harvest, aggregate and harmonise software metadata from NFDI consortia marketplaces and registries, and will provide back enriched and curated metadata in future.