about.md

title	abstract	authors	contributor	maintainer	repository_code	version	license_url	operating_system	programming_language	keywords	date_released
cold	Caltech Library maintains a list of people, groups and funders and their related identifiers. For many years these were managed using a spreadsheets. That has become cumbersome. **COLD** manages data as JSON objects in [dataset](https://github.com/caltechlibrary/dataset) collections. TypeScript provides a middleware for the user interface with datasetd providing object management. The front end web server provides access control (e.g. via Shibboleth). **COLD** is implemented as a set of localhost web services and collection of programs and scripts. The localhost web services for managing controlled object lists and datum.	family_name given_name id Doiel R. S. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0900-6903	family_name given_name id Johnson Kathy https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0026-2516 family_name given_name id Morrell Thomas E https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9266-5146	family_name given_name id Doiel R. S. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0900-6903	https://github.com/caltechlibrary/cold	0.0.18	https://caltechlibrary.github.io/cold/LICENSE	Linux	CSS HTML JavaScript JSON SQL Typescript YAML	metadata objects controlled vocabulary	2025-03-12

About this software

cold 0.0.18

Working proof of concept. Updated COLD with a new version of CL-web-components.

Authors

• R. S. Doiel, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0900-6903

Contributors

• Kathy Johnson, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0026-2516- Thomas E Morrell, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9266-5146

Maintainers

• R. S. Doiel, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0900-6903

Caltech Library maintains a list of people, groups and funders and their related identifiers. For many years these were managed using a spreadsheets. That has become cumbersome. COLD manages data as JSON objects in dataset collections. TypeScript provides a middleware for the user interface with datasetd providing object management. The front end web server provides access control (e.g. via Shibboleth).

COLD is implemented as a set of localhost web services and collection of programs and scripts. The localhost web services for managing controlled object lists and datum.

• License: https://caltechlibrary.github.io/cold/LICENSE
• GitHub: https://github.com/caltechlibrary/cold
• Issues: https://github.com/caltechlibrary/cold/issues

Programming languages

• CSS
• HTML
• JavaScript
• JSON
• SQL
• Typescript
• YAML

Operating Systems

• Linux

Software Requirements

• Deno >= 2.2.2
• GNU Make
• Pandoc >= 3.1
• datasetd >= 2.1.23
• CMTools >= 0.0.18