Contribute downloadable software

This page describes how to contribute downloadable software to the European Language Grid.

Before you start

Step 1: create metadata

The first step is to describe your software using ELG’s metadata format, ELG-SHARE. Future releases of ELG will include an interactive editor for this. However, for now, you must create an XML file.

The elements you need are documented on the following pages:

For more information about ELG-SHARE, see:

At the ELG GitLab, you will find templates (that you can use to create new metadata records) and examples in XML format.

Step 2: upload

From the ELG catalogue, click the “Upload” link as shown below:

Upload menu

Now upload the file you created in Step 1:

Upload metadata XML

If there are any errors in your XML file, these will be shown to you. Fix them and try the upload again. Eventually, a success message will be shown to you and the metadata will be imported into the database.

Step 3: wait for approval

At this stage, the software is only visible to you and to us, the ELG platform administrators. We will check your contribution and integrate it into the ELG catalogue if everything is in order, and contact you otherwise.