Licensing information is provided on the tools home page

A core aspect of data reusability is the ability to determine, unambiguously and with relative ease,...

The tool has a unique name and an informative description

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

The tool can be freely downloaded or accessed from a webpage

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

Machine readable metadata

Metadata play an important role in enable users to find a resource of interest. Metadata may be inde...

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

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

Source code is shared in a public repository and is documented

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

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

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

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

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

A standardized ID or accession number is used to identify the dataset

The tool or the paper describing it contains a unique identifier. It is a necessary condition to una...

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