Australia’s provider of research infrastructure to the Earth and Geospatial Science community
AuScope is an NCRIS-funded Australian research infrastructure that develops and delivers practical tools to enhance accessibility of geoscience datasets. The AuScope Virtual Research Environment (AVRE) provides a unifying platform for all AuScope Programs' data and analytical needs (Wyborn et al., 2018). Its Scientific Software Solutions Centre (SSSC) provides an environment where scientific software can be published, discovered, shared with collaborators, and described for automated execution (Squire et al., 2018). The process of registering software at the SSSC captures description, license, versioning, and citation relevant information, as well as a machine-readable description of the software environment required to run it. With these elements, software from the SSSC can be chained together into workflows in virtual laboratories. This includes automated data preparation by client applications and management of output data. The elements are identified by persistent and versioned Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI).
