Integration with DataCite and GitHub #86
Description
Would like to import metadata from a DataCite DOI into the codemeta generator. It is relatively simple to do so for the DataCite API. We did so here: https://github.com/Heliophysics-Software-Search-Interface (happy to collaborate). Also ideally pull metadata from GitHub (GitLab, etc). Could the non-AI portion of SOMEF be used for the GitHub/GitLab API and similar calls?
@dgarijo wasn't there some conversation about using parts of SOMEF in this way?
The motivation here is to be able to draft schema.org-aligned codemeta files with only the gihub link and the DataCite DOI. We have been working towards this with the HSSI, but we are finding that the results from SOMEF are not doing well. Also, it was very difficult to incorporate SOMEF into the HSSI website, so incorporating updates into the website are prohibitively difficult. It would be much easier to pull the functionality into the codemeta-generator. Ideally, a service would be able to call an API sitting on top of the codemeta-generator, feed it the DataCite DOI and/or GitHub link, and in return receive a draft schema.org-aligned codemeta JSON-LD file for consumption.
@Technostalgic
@jibarnum
@sapols
Since the mapping between DataCite and CodeMeta is still in development, it makes sense for the first step to be the GitHub/GitLab work. Any thoughts?