Welcome

This is a community-run site intended to inform anyone with an interest in software indexing.

A software index often provides the base data for a software map, please visit softwaremapping.org for more information.

What is software indexing (noun)?

Software indexing is the collaborative process of surveying high-level software asset information and recording in an active/verifiable index.

What is a software index (verb)?

A master store for high-level software asset metadata. This could be anything from a spreadsheet to a vendor product.

Some aspects of a good software index might include:

• Easy to access and search
• Broadly consumable
• Acts as a launching pad (e.g. web links) to reach more detailed information in other systems
• Open for read/write by other systems (APIs & Webhooks)

Some aspects of a bad software index might include:

• Hard to access or rest
• Too complex to be broadly consumable

Products

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Disclaimer

This site was created by the founder of aplas.com (@mcrawshaw). The content on this site is intended to be unbiased and non-commercial. If you believe this not to be the case, please raise an issue.