[Web4lib] software registry

[Hilmar Lapp]

Thanks for the links. What I'm after is different from, say, download  
sites, or sf.net.

Think Connotea (if you're scientifically inclined), or del.icio.us -  
just specifically for software, and aside from a tag and the project  
or download URL people can enter metadata about the software (such as  
authors, purpose, current version, programming language, required  
platform, bug page, feature page, and what not). Ideally the metadata  
could also be exposed as RDF (so that semantic searches would find it).

I.e., a public software catalog, to which people can add and tag.

I'm thinking many people must have had the wish to have this and  
therefore it must exist ...

	-hilmar

On Feb 21, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Gorman wrote:

>
> 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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