Frank Fischer✨ Check out #ToolFindr: A Lightweight Explorer for Discovering Research Tools in the #DigitalHumanities
https://furesh.github.io/toolfindr/
Blogpost (in German):
https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/furesh/?p=683
Nanette Rissler-Pipka@umblaetterer why do we need another tool finder when there is the SSH Open Marketplace? You argue with sustainability problems in the "About" - isn't that the very purpose of #DARIAH and #SSHOC to offer sustainable infrastructure ?
@NanetteRissler i'm not involved, i just shared the link
Till Grallert@umblaetterer @NanetteRissler I am one of the people behind this #Wikidata-based #ToolRegistry, which we argue addresses some of the major shortcomings of other approaches, famously coined the "Directory paradox" by @quinnanya . An article in which we lay out our argument and the design decisions will be forthcoming with DHQ (The preprint is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15094816).
And, rest assured, many Wikidata entries link to Open SSH Marketplace, Tapor and others.
Open Tool Registries! Resolving the Directory Paradox with Wikidata
This paper introduces the conceptual framework for open and community-curated tool registries, posing that such registries provide fundamental value to any field of research by acting as curated knowledge bases about a community’s past and current methodological practices as well as authority files for individual tools. This modular framework of a basic data model, SPARQL queries, bash scripts, and a prototypical web interface builds upon the well-established and open infrastructures of Wikimedia, GitLab, and Zenodo for creating, maintaining, sharing, curating, and archiving linked open data. We demonstrate the feasibility of this framework by introducing our concrete implementation of a tool registry for digital humanities, initially repurposing data from existing silos, such as TAPoR and the SSH Open Marketplace, and retaining the established TaDiRAH classification scheme while being open to communal editing in every aspect.