TOOL X is description/definition. This report card communicates TOOL X’s compliance with the Riverscape Consortium’s published tool standards.
Report Card Summary
| Tool | NAME OF TOOL |
| Version | 0.0.00 |
| Date | YEAR-MM-DD |
| Assessment Team | Names and/or Links |
| Current Assessment |  Research Grade |
| Target Status |  Professional Grade |
| Riverscapes Compliance |  Riverscapes Compliant |
| Assessment Rationale | 1-3 Sentence Summary by reviewers justifying assessment determination and summarizing from details below. |
Report Card Details
This tool’s discrimination evaluation by the Riverscapes Consortium’s is:
Evaluation Key: None or Not Applicable: • Minimal or In Progress: • Functional: • Fully Developed:
| Criteria | Value | Evaluation | Comments and/or Recommendations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tool Interface(s) |  : ArcGIS 10.x AddIn, Stand Alone Windows Tool |
Comments | |
| Scale | Reach (cell scale resolution, reach scale extent) | Comments. | |
| Language(s) and Dependencies | e.g. C# | Comments. | |
| Vetted in Peer-Reviewed Literature | Yes. Doe et al. (2015) | Comments. | |
| Source Code Documentation | Desc. | Comments. | |
| Open Source | open-source with GNU General Public License v 3.0 | Comments. | |
| Tool and Source Code Citable |  |
Provide citation, e.g. Phlip Bailey, Joseph Wheaton, Matt Reimer, & James Brasington. (2020). Geomorphic Change Detection Software (7.5.0). Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7248344 | |
| User Documentation | Link(s) | Comments. | |
| Easy User Interface | Desc. | Comments. | |
| Scalability | Desc. | Comments. | |
Produces Riverscapes Projects  |
Tool is outputting to disk data in a Riverscapes Project that can be opened in RV. | Comments. |
F-A-I-R Assessment
F-A-I-R, corresponds to the findable, accessible, interoperable and re-useable Principles (Wilkinson et al. 2016), which the RC strives to follow and to help facilitate making it easier for the riverscapes community to follow. F-A-I-R can apply to metadata, data and the tool itself.
| FAIR Principle | Value | Evaluation | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| METADATA | |||
| Findable | Desc. | Comments. | |
| Available | Desc. | Comments. | |
| Interoperable | Desc. | Comments. | |
| Re-useable | Desc. | Comments. | |
| DATA | |||
| Findable | Desc. | Comments. | |
| Available | Desc. | Comments. | |
| Interoperable | Desc. | Comments. | |
| Re-useable | Desc. | Comments. | |
| TOOL | |||
| Findable | Desc. | Comments. | |
| Available | Desc. | Comments. | |
| Interoperable | Desc. | Comments. | |
| Re-useable | Desc. | Comments. |
Overall summary of tool FAIR-ness : Tool evaluation summary.
Tool Output Utility
All Riverscapes tools package up data in Riverscapes Projects. This section evaluates the utility of those outputs to end-users that are not running the tool, but instead leveraging its outputs.
| Criteria | Value | Evaluation | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| RV- Compliant Riverscapes Projects ? |
Desc. | Comments. | |
| RV Business Logic Defined? | Desc. | Comments. | |
Riverscapes Projects hosted in public-facing Riverscapes Warehouse(s)  |
Desc. | Comments. | |
| Riverscapes Projects connected to Web-Maps | Desc. | Comments. | |
Riverscapes Projects connected to Field Apps  |
Desc. | Comments. |
Developer Intent
Development team (not evaluation team) should provide 1-3 paragraphs and/or some bullets and/or figures describing where they hope to go in future releases.
If you share the above vision, get in touch with the developers to support/fund the effort.
The Riverscapes Consortium’s Technical Committee provides report cards for tools either deemed as “riverscapes-compliant” or “pending riverscapes-compliance” 
.