feat: review governance#1158
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feat: review governance#1158mihai-sysbio wants to merge 3 commits intoresearch-software-ecosystem:masterfrom
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Thanks a lot @mihai-sysbio, significant improvements 🙌
| The RSEc currently focuses mainly on the platforms associated to the ELIXIR Tools platform that gather, curate, maintain and consume high-quality metadata associated to research software. Specifically, this ecosystem includes bio.tools, Biocontainers, OpenEBench and WorkflowHub as platforms, and EDAM as the chosen ontology for describing research software metadata. While each contributing platform has its governance model, the aim is to establish a governance model to facilitate the interactions among those systems, enable the inclusion of new contributors within ELIXIR and collaborators beyond ELIXIR, set roles and responsibilities and establish the overall decision making process. | ||
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| Research software is a critical component of modern data-driven research. Thus, being able to discover, understand and adequately utilize software is essential. Associated metadata software enables discovering, understanding and effective reuse of research software. However, such metadata is often sparse and inconsistent across different resources. The RSEc aims to act as a proxy to maintain and preserve high-quality metadata for describing research software. To make this possible, the RSEc needs to work closely together with heterogeneous metadata resources, often with different objectives, users communities and technical implementations, to bring metadata together, facilitate integration, curation, and re-usability by the contributors and anyone willing to consume the metadata produced in this context. |
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I'd have this paragraph switched with the previous one, it reads more like an introduction than the one before.
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In principle, yes. I was thinking though more about the typical .md rendering - and that the first paragraph acts more like an abstract for the otherwise not-short document.
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Let me know what you think - I'll hold off with the merge until then.
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In this PR I have reviewed the goverance, mostly focusing on improving the language. Ocassionally, I've expanded some parts where I felt more clarity would be beneficial. Please feel free to edit/discard as you see fit.