Suggested Shared Tools
From Exchange Network Wiki
Suggestions
- Share with others as you would like to be shared with. As Mitch West (EN Coordinator) stated in the Network Connection Blog, “share your code. Share your data. You are not alone. If you find it useful, maybe someone else will as well. If you took a week to slap together some code that needed a month, remember that someone out there may have until tomorrow to do the same. If you let folks know what’s good or not so good about your data, they can decide if it meets their needs. More important, if you publish your data to the world, they will help you improve it. Remember kindergarten. If you want others to share, then you should share too.”
That said, there are a few "best practices" that will make information and resources on this page as helpful as possible:
- Please include any documentation you have that can help other participants use the resource (e.g., descriptions, schemas, etc.); this is particularly true for resources developed using Exchange Network Grant funding.
- Open source products are particularly encouraged (this does not preclude use of proprietary code).
- Maintain the resources you provide. (The Exchange Network will not support ongoing maintenance for all software used on the Exchange Network; software components will be maintained by developers unless approved by the Exchange Network.
If software demonstrates sufficient relevance and value to the Exchange Network, the software package may get a formal review and go through an approval process. Approved software will be given a special designation and maintained at a basic level by the Exchange Network.
