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- Identify your tool capabilities - extractions/analysis or conversions.
- Decide if your tool is best fit as converter within DAP or as extractor within DTS. Look into some existing examples.
- Download bd-template project from the NCSA opensource repository
- Follow the README instructions to launch a development environment
- Follow the README instructions to write a new extractor/converter that uses your tool, thereby converting it to BD tool.
- Once tested in the local development environment, push the code the open-source repository.
- Register the new BD tool in the tools catalogue. This will involve providing description, link to the code repository, a dockerfile, input and output file. Submit for Admin approval.
- On approval, you can share the tool with others.
Why should I contribute?
Researchers often build/develop new tools for their study to extract useful information from unstructured/semi-structured data. A lot of efforts goes into that and are often unacknowledged. The value of their research is usually measured in terms of publications and the analysis done on the data obtained from those unstructured data. Also, some of these extraction/conversion tasks are repeated by multiple researchers within the same domain of science. Towards acknowledging such efforts, we built BD tools catalogue
How can I contribute if my tool uses a proprietary software?
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