Ten Simple Rules for the Open Development of Scientific Software (Prlić A, Procter JB (2012) Ten Simple Rules for the Open Development of Scientific Software. PLoS Comput Biol 8(12): e1002802. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002802)
The ten rules:
Rule 1: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
Rule 2: Code Well
Rule 3: Be Your Own User
Rule 4: Be Transparent
Rule 5: Be Simple
Rule 6: Don’t Be a Perfectionist
Rule 7: Nurture and Grow Your Community
Rule 8: Promote Your Project
Rule 9: Find Sponsors
Rule 10: Science Counts
The same ten rules should work for development of open development of semantic annotations for data.
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I first saw this at: PLOS Computational Biology: Ten Simple Rules for the Open Development of Scientific Software by Kevin Davies.