about.md

title	cold
abstract	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. **COLD** is implemented as three web web services - cold web UI - cold JSON API (provided by datasetd) - cold reports (the report request system) Reports are implemented as a set of programs or bash scripts. TypeScript+Deno is used to implement the web UI and report system. The JSON API is provided by Dataset's datasetd. Access control is provided by the front end web server integrated with Shibboleth.
authors	family_name given_name id Doiel R. S. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0900-6903
contributor	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
maintainer	family_name given_name id Doiel R. S. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0900-6903
repository_code	https://github.com/caltechlibrary/cold
version	0.0.36
license_url	https://caltechlibrary.github.io/cold/LICENSE
operating_system	Linux
programming_language	CSS HTML JavaScript JSON shell (Bash) SQL Typescript YAML
keywords	metadata objects controlled vocabulary
date_released	2026-03-19

About this software

cold 0.0.36

• Add RDM Review queue support to COLD
• Add RDM Authors' submission Report to COLD
• updated dataset and deno version requirements

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.

COLD is implemented as three web web services

• cold web UI
• cold JSON API (provided by datasetd)
• cold reports (the report request system)

Reports are implemented as a set of programs or bash scripts.

TypeScript+Deno is used to implement the web UI and report system. The JSON API is provided by Dataset's datasetd. Access control is provided by the front end web server integrated with Shibboleth.

• 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
• shell (Bash)
• SQL
• Typescript
• YAML

Operating Systems

• Linux

Software Requirements

• Deno >= 2.7.5
• Dataset = 2.3.4
• CMTools >= 0.0.40

Software Suggestions

• GNU Make
• Pandoc 3.1