Executive Summary: A service provider wants to enable research communities to install software on a resource they administer so the software can be used by the community and so community information systems contain resource-specific instructions that researchers can find and follow.
The functionality described in this use case is fully supported by the operational components listed here.
Component | User facing? | Component’s role in the capability |
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Research Software Portal (RSP) | yes | The SP learns that RDR is used to maintain resource information, and that they need to choose whether to support the Community Software Area (CSA) feature on their resource(s). |
Resource Description Repository (RDR) | yes | SP records that a resource offers the CSA feature, and records instructions for the researcher on requesting a CSA and how to advertise software the researcher is making available thru the CSA. |