NFDI4Energy/SMECS

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Software Metadata Extraction and Curation Software (SMECS). A web application for extracting, importing, curating, and exporting research software metadata.

Stars: 13
Forks: 1
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 65
Avg merge: 22h 24m
Merged PRs (30d): 1

Dominant language: Python
License: AGPL-3.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 8, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue

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65 open issues indexed

Update metadata terms Open

documentation

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#328 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Presentation of additional description for roles: Present simultaneously with the hovering the 'i' Open

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#325 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 1, 2026
New column: Account service home page (e.g., GitHub handle), Contact point (email) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#324 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Persons table merge loses `Affiliation` and `Roles` Open

front end table

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#320 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Add metadata schema selection to the landing page Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#315 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Add metadata extraction method selection to the landing page Open

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#312 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Validation of imported metadata file Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#310 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Small UI modifications: Persons tab Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#309 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 30, 2026
UI modifications Open

front end

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#305 · Opened Jul 10, 2026
Persons table Open

front end short-term table

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#303 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 8, 2026
Suppress invalid or null license values Open

back end extraction

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#295 · Opened Jun 11, 2026
Error handling: Improve error messages for source configuration issues Open

back end

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#289 · Opened Jun 8, 2026
Valid GitHub and GitLab instances are incorrectly trigger an error Open

back end short-term

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#286 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 4, 2026
SMECS Documentation Open

Deployment documentation

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#277 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 30, 2026
Export as RDF Open

back end export long-term

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#274 · Opened Apr 14, 2026
Extract metadata from Zenodo Open

back end extraction long-term

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#273 · Opened Mar 27, 2026
Extract metadata from CodeBerg Open

back end extraction short-term

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#272 · Opened Mar 27, 2026
Create a Cookie consent Open

Deployment Pending

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#270 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 17, 2026
Define KPI - Number of Requests Made by Visitors Open

Deployment Pending

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#262 · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 26, 2026
Define KPI - Number of Visitors Open

Deployment Pending

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#261 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 26, 2026
Python Test Cases Open

back end mid-term testing

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#258 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 19, 2026
HERMES Integration through Cloning Open

back end extraction

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#257 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 19, 2026
Different expert levels Open

back end long-term

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#247 · Opened Oct 14, 2025
Appropriate error when token is expired Open

back end short-term

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#240 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 9, 2025
Improve suggestion lists for License and Programming Languages Open

front end short-term

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#232 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 13, 2025
Systematic test of the extraction capabilities of SMECS Open

mid-term testing

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#229 · Opened Aug 6, 2025
Check performance of backend Open

back end mid-term

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#214 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 16, 2025
Differentiate error between URL and token Open

back end short-term

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#209 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 12, 2025
Contributors Open

back end contributors long-term

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#208 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 11, 2025
Validate License Against SPDX Standards Open

back end License short-term

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#201 · Opened May 28, 2025
"None" should not appear in the extracted metadata Open

back end extraction short-term

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#200 · 1 assignee · Opened May 27, 2025
Allow to switch between metadata schemas on start page Open

back end front end mid-term schema startpage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#198 · Opened May 26, 2025
Test SMECS for more metadata schemas Open

back end ConnOSS-alignment long-term schema

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#197 · Opened May 26, 2025
Improve testing for js-code Open

front end mid-term testing

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#196 · Opened May 26, 2025
Extraction is really slow sometimes Open

back end

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#191 · Opened May 25, 2025
Nested nested elements are not support Open

front end long-term

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#187 · Opened May 23, 2025
Tables for single entries Open

discuss front end mid-term table

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#186 · Opened May 23, 2025
Publication Element Open

back end extraction front end mid-term

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#172 · Opened May 20, 2025
Handling of license Open

front end short-term

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#171 · 1 comment · Opened May 19, 2025
Create curation page based on metadata schema file Open

front end mid-term schema

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#151 · Opened Apr 1, 2025
Publish SMECS on pypi Open

documentation mid-term

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#149 · Opened Apr 1, 2025
SMECS as GitHub App Open

discuss

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#142 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 3, 2025
Allow ontology-based entries for elements Open

front end mid-term

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#140 · Opened Feb 19, 2025
Extract metadata from ORCID Open

extraction mid-term

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#136 · Opened Feb 19, 2025
Extract author information from DOI Open

discuss extraction mid-term

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#135 · Opened Feb 19, 2025
Extract dependencies for python Open

back end extraction mid-term

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#134 · Opened Feb 19, 2025
Different modes with a different amount of metadata Open

back end front end mid-term startpage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#133 · Opened Feb 19, 2025
Rerun extraction when additional links are provided Open

back end extraction

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#132 · Opened Feb 19, 2025
Validation on Inputs in new UI Open

front end good first issue

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#129 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 17, 2025
Contributors are not fully extracted? Open

back end contributors extraction

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

NFDI4Energy/SMECS#127 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 16, 2025

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