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The eml-software module contains general information that describes software resources. This module is intended to fully document software that is needed in order to view a resource (such as a dataset) or to process a dataset. The software module is also imported into the eml-methods module in order to document what software was used to process or perform quality control procedures on a dataset. The eml-software module, like other modules, may be "referenced" via the <references> tag. This allows a software resource to be described once, and then used as a reference in other locations within the EML document via its ID.

All datasets where software was used in the analysis or creation of the dataset. yes Software Package Defines a software distribution and all of its dependent software. The software element contains general information about a software resource that is being documented. This field is intended to give information for software tools that are needed to interpret a dataset, software that was written to process a resource, or software as a resource in itself. It is based on eml-resource and Open Software Description (OSD) a W3C submission. There can be multiple implementations within a software package because a physical software package can run on multiple hardware and/or operating systems. See implementation element documentation for a more thorough explanation. Implementation Describes the hardware and/or operating system requirements for one implementation of a package. Implementation describes the hardware, operating system resources a package runs on. Note, a package can have multiple implementations. So for example, a package may be written in java and the package may run on numerous hardware and/or operating systems like Pentium/Linux, Pentium/NT and so on. Hardware and Software descriptions that have different requirements can be placed here. Please see the examples for each sub-element of the implementation type. Distribution Information on how the resource is distributed online and offline This field provides information on how the resource is distributed online and offline. Connections to online systems can be described as URLs and as a list of relevant connection parameters. Physical Size Physical size of an implementation. The physical size of an implementation on disk. 100 Megabytes International Language The International Language of the software implementation. The International Language of the software implementation. Language Value The actual value for the language or a code for the language. The actual value for the language or a code for the language. english eng Language Code Standard The International Language Code being used in the field languageValue. The International Language Code being used in the field languageValue. See http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ ISO639-2 Operating System The operating system(s) an implementation runs on. The operating system(s) an implementation runs on. Linux Windows 95 Windows NT4 Windows XP Sun Solaris 2.8 Mac OS X Machine Processor The machine processor(s) required for executing the implementation. The Machine Processor required for executing the implementation. Pentium II Intel 486 SUN Sparc Motorola Virtual Machine The virtual machine that the implementation requires. The virtual machine that the implementation requires. Java Virtual Machine 1.2 Disk Usage The minimum amount of Disk Space required to install this implementation. The minimum amount of Disk Space required to install this implementation. 220 Megabytes 15 MB 100 kB Runtime Memory Usage The minimum amount of memory required to run an implementation. The minimum amount of memory required to run an implementation. 32 Megabytes 128 MB Programming Language The computer programming language the software package was programmed in. The computer programming language the software package was programmed in. C++ Java C C# Perl Cobol Fortran Lisp Visual Basic VBA Bourne Shell Script Checksum The generated checksum value of a software package that is a self-contained module. The generated checksum value of a software package that is a self-contained module. $sum software.jar 27021 22660 dependency This fields documents any dependencies that this implementation might have. This fields documents any dependencies that this implementation might have. dependency This fields documents any dependencies that this software package in general might have. This fields documents any dependencies that this software package in general might have. URL for License URL where the license can be found URL where the license can be found License Text of the license Text of the license Version Version of the software being packaged. String value corresponding to the major, minor, custom, and build version. project descriptor This field is a description of the project with which this software product is related. Please see the eml-project module for more information. Action Describes what action needs to be undertaken (if any) for a software dependency at either the software package or implementation level. This element and its enumerations of assert and install can be used as commands by a software application to carry out these actions on software package dependencies. This is a change from how we have used all previous elements within eml. Up until now all other elements have been simply metadata designed to describe data, literature citations, etc... with the Action element we can use this module as a command to carry out the action. Dependency Dependency describes the software package(s) that the software package is dependent upon. The dependency element is recursive. It is a sub-element of the software Element but it also has as a sub-element its parent element Software Package. Dependency has been made optional because to make it mandatory does not allow the recursion to end. Dependency has also been made a sub-element of implementation because there can be both implementation and package level dependencies within a package. Action Describes what action needs to be undertaken (if any) for a software dependency at either the software package or implementation level. This element and its enumerations of assert and install can be used as commands by a software application to carry out these actions on software package dependencies. This is a change from how we have used all previous elements within eml. Up until now all other elements have been simply metadata designed to describe data, literature citations, etc... with the Action element we can use this module as a command to carry out the action.