Module Documentation: eml-software
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The eml-software module contains general information that describes software resources.

Element Definitions:

software
  Tooltip: Software  
  Summary: General information about a software resource.  
  Description: the 'software' element contains general information about a software resource that is being documented. This is field is intended to give information for software tools that are needed to interpret a dataset, software that was written to process a resource, or software as a resource in itself. It includes the version, the programming language, and the location of the software, along with the source code information or binary file information. The information provided in the subelements are specific to software resources and extend the Resource type.  
  Example: Please see the examples for each subelement of the 'Software' type.  
versionNumber
  Tooltip: Version number  
  Summary: The version number of the software resource.  
  Description: This field provides the version number of the software that is being documented. The version number may be a vendor-assigned number, or it may be a version tag from a software versioning system such as CVS (Concurrent Versioning System).  
  Example: 8.2.1 or WEBSITE_2_BETA_1  
sourceModule
  Tooltip: Source module  
  Summary: The name of the source code module.  
  Description: This field provides the name of the source code module that contains the non-binary source.  
  Example: eml-2.0b1.tgz  
binaryFile
  Tooltip: Binary file  
  Summary: The name of the binary file for the software.  
  Description: This field provides the name of the compiled binary file for the software distribution.  
  Example: morpho-macintosh-1.2.bin  
location
  Tooltip: Software location  
  Summary: The Internet location of the software resource.  
  Description: This field provides the Uniform Resource Locator of where the software resource is available on the Internet.  
  Example: http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/metacat/  
programmingLanguage
  Tooltip: Programming Language  
  Summary: The programming language for the software resource.  
  Description: This field provides the name and version of the programming language in which the software resource was written.  
  Example: PERL version 5.005_03  

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