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Why should I contribute?
Researchers often build/ develop new tools for their study/ research, in order to extract useful information from unstructured /or semi-structured data. A lot of efforts effort goes into that developing new tools and such efforts are often unacknowledged. The Instead, the value of their the 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 . In addition, similar tool development efforts are repeated by multiple researchers within the same domain of science. Towards acknowledging such effortstool development effort, we we built the BD Tools Catalogue, where members of different research community could communities can contribute and share their tools within BD framework. So, In the BD Tools Catalogue you get proper credit for your effort in creating the new tool.
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Can I contribute if my tool uses a third-party proprietary software?
Yes, you can submit your tool which , even if it uses third-party proprietary software. However, before it is made available as Data Transformation Services, we will require need to review the license agreement. Our current focus has been is on using opensource software for building bd open source software to build Brown Dog tools.