Software Management Plans &ndash; Current Concepts, Tools, and Application

Yves Vincent Grossmann; Giacomo Lanza; Katarzyna Biernacka; Tim Hasler; Kerstin Helbig

doi:10.5334/dsj-2024-043

Abstract

The present article is a review of the state of the art about software management plans (SMPs). It provides a selection of questionnaires, tools and application cases for SMPs from a European (German) point of view, and discusses the possible connections of SMPs to other aspects of software sustainability, such as metadata, FAIR4RS principles or machine-actionable SMPs. The aim of our publication is to provide basic knowledge to start diving into the subject and a handout for infrastructure providers who are about to establish/develop a SMP service in one’s own institution.

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Software Management Plans – Current Concepts, Tools, and Application

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