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The tool utilizes a community-accepted ontology.

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Previous versions of the tool are made available.

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Licensing information is provided on the tool’s homepage.

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The tool can be accessed programmatically through an API and follows community standards for open APIs

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The availability of machine-readable metadata that describes a digital resource.

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Contact information is provided for the creator(s) of the tool and information describing how to cite the tool is provided

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Reusability is not only a technical issue; data can be discovered, retrieved, and even be machine-re...

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The tool has a unique name and an informative description

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Most people use a search engine to initiate a search for a particular digital resource of interest. ...

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The tool can be freely downloaded or accessed from a webpage

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The change to an identifier scheme will have widespread implications for resource lookup, linking, a...

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Tutorials for the tool are available on the tool’s homepage

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Some digital resources comprise of sensitive data, and require additional measures (such as institut...

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Source code is shared in a public repository and is documented

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Digital resources and their metadata should be retrievable throguh standardised communication protoc...

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