[Web4lib] software registry

[Jonathan Gorman]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wanted to ask whether anyone is aware of a searchable (public) registry for 
> metadata about software, discipline-specific or not.
>
> Thanks,
>
> 	-hilmar

Depends how flexible you with the word "registry".  Freshmeat 
(http://freshmeat.net) stores information on many software projecst. 
Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net) will have metadata about all the 
projects that are hosted by them.

Then there's a lot of other download sites.  Tucows 
(http://www.tucows.com) and C|Net (http://www.download.com) both come to 
mind.  You can probably check out

If you stretch it far enough, I suppose package management systems also 
contain metadata, so things like the debian package system would be a 
source.

There's probably plenty of groups out there like the GNU project 
(http://www.gnu.org) out there that list what software they're working on 
and developing.


Jonathan T. Gorman
Research Information Specialist
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
216 Main Library - MC522
1408 West Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801


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