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The Software Ontology

The Software Ontology (SWO) is a resource for describing software tools, their types, tasks, versions, provenance and data associated. The work is a collaboration between the European Bioinformatics Institute,the University of Manchester, and the University of Oxford.

SWO was originally created as part of the JISC funded SWORD project (Software Ontology for Resource Description), an inter-disciplinary effort to capture software descriptions used in the preservation of data.

If you would like to engage with the project please post questions to the SWO Github issue system.

Updated 2019