Description
Software is an important aspect of modern research and a research product in its own right. To save researchers who code the arduous labor of manual publication of each version, they can use the tools developed in the HERMES project. HERMES (HElmholtz Rich MEtadata Software Publication) is an open source project which helps users automate the publication of their software.
In this workshop, attendees will learn, in a hands-on fashion, the basics of publishing research software with rich metadata. This includes choosing the right licenses in accordance with the HZDR software policy, making their code citable by adding authorship information, and publishing it (in an automated way) using the HERMES workflow.
The workshop is aimed at everyone who writes software as part of their research. Workshop attendees are encouraged to bring a piece of their own software they want to publish; ideally already prepared for publication, with a suitable folder structure and without any secrets in the code. Prior basic knowledge of GitLab and GitLab CI/CD are helpful but not required. Please bring your laptop with a working Python and Pip installation to the workshop.
