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Readme Template for Software
| dc.contributor.author | Dietrich, Dianne | |
| dc.contributor.author | McKee, Lencia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-08-13T15:21:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-04-07T17:43:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-08-13T15:21:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description | This Readme template: software is shared under a Creative Commons 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0). Please adapt, use and share as you see fit; attribution is appreciated when re-sharing, but not required. Citation is not required if using the template to document your software. Please cite as: Dietrich, Dianne, McKee, Lencia. (2025) Readme Template for Software. Cornell University eCommons Repository. https://doi.org/10.7298/h85a-qz91 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A readme file provides information about a dataset, file(s), or software and is intended to help ensure that the files can be correctly interpreted, by yourself at a later date or by others when sharing or publishing data, code, or software. These README templates are provided in multiple formats for your to adapt and use for your data: -.md (markdown, a language for text formatting that can be opened using a markdown editor or as plain text) -.txt (plain text, which can be opened and edited in a text editor; to download you may need to control-click or right-click and save the file) The accompanying guide to writing “readme” style metadata for your code and software can be found here: https://data.research.cornell.edu/data-management/sharing/writing-readmes-for-research-code-software/ Information about markdown can be found here: https://www.markdownguide.org/ | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.7298/h85a-qz91.2 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/116816.2 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.provenance | new version includes revised content | |
| dc.relation.hasversion | new version includes revised content | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedby | Kozlowski, Wendy. (2025) Readme Template for Data. Cornell University eCommons Repository. https://doi.org/10.7298/mhns-zm71 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyuri | https://doi.org/10.7298/mhns-zm71 | |
| dc.relation.isreplacedby | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/116816.3 | |
| dc.relation.replaces | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/116816 | |
| dc.rights | CC0 1.0 Universal | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ | |
| dc.subject | data curation | |
| dc.subject | metadata | |
| dc.subject | documentation | |
| dc.subject | software | |
| dc.subject | preservation | |
| dc.title | Readme Template for Software | |
| dc.type | other |