Successful use of the RADAR API in the DFG project SuLMaSS

Published: 11.04.2022

In order to enable the integration of RADAR functions into existing applications and workflows as well as the implementation of alternative user interfaces in addition to the regular RADAR user interface, the RADAR API is available. This is REST-based and maps the complete range of functions of the RADAR frontend.

The RADAR API is now being used successfully in the DFG project SuLMaSS (DFG project number 391128822, details see IBT (KIT) or IAM (KIT)). SuLMaSS aims to improve, develop and evaluate a sustainable lifecycle management for research software, among others on the basis of a simulation software for cardiac electrophysiology (openCarp). In addition to providing the high-quality software package openCarp, infrastructure components for testing, versioning and referencing as well as for secure storage and publication are to be developed for all phases of the software lifecycle. RADAR4KIT, the local RADAR solution of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), will be used for this purpose. For each release version of the openCARP software, its assets, such as the appropriate documentation or sample simulation data from GitLab, are automatically uploaded to RADAR4KIT and the corresponding metadata is also added via the RADAR API. As part of the approval process, the collected information can be manually reviewed by a responsible curator. All datasets for openCARP releases published in RADAR4KIT can be found here.

An article published in the open access publication "Bausteine Forschungsdatenmanagement" informs on the development of the entire technical infrastructure for collaborative software development (CDE) based on GitLab, which can also be used for other large-scale distributed software projects: Bach, Felix, Jochen Klar, Axel Loewe, Jorge Sánchez, Gunnar Seemann, Yung-Lin Huang, and Robert Ulrich. 2022. "The OpenCARP CDE: Concept for and Implementation of a Sustainable Collaborativedevelopment Environment for Research Software." Building Blocks Research Data Management, no. 1 (March). German: 64-84. https://doi.org/10.17192/bfdm.2022.1.8368

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