DataDesc

The framework surrounding DataDesc, a metadata schema for software documentation with focus on interfaces, comes with a machine-actionable metadata exchange format and a software toolkit supporting the documentation, extraction and publication of software metadata. Features DataDesc combines four distinct python software packages: a form to convert general software metadata into a DataDesc compliant JSON file a parser for extracting extensive metadata information from python source code to DataDesc compliant JSON a tool for combining two DataDesc compliant JSON files into a single one a tool for uploading DataDesc compliant files to the ORKG, GitHub, PyPI, and more Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy of Germany (BMWi) for supporting this work with a grant for the project LOD-GEOSS (03EI1005B). Furthermore, the authors would like to thank the German Federal Government, the German State Governments, and the Joint Science Conference (GWK) for their funding and support as part of the NFDI4Ing consortium. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) - project number: 442146713. In addition, the work was supported by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture within the Lower Saxony ‘‘Vorab’’ of the Volkswagen Foundation under Grant 11-76251-13-3/19–ZN3488 (ZLE), and by the Center for Digital Innovation (ZDIN). This work was also supported by the Helmholtz Association under the program "Energy System Design".