  To satisfy the principles of FAIR software, software sustainability and
software citation, research software must be formally published. Publication
repositories make this possible and provide published software versions with
unique and persistent identifiers. However, software publication is still a
tedious, mostly manual process.
  To streamline software publication, HERMES, a project funded by the Helmholtz
Metadata Collaboration, develops automated workflows to publish research
software with rich metadata.
  The tooling developed by the project utilizes continuous integration
solutions to retrieve, collate, and process existing metadata in source
repositories, and publish them on publication repositories, including checks
against existing metadata requirements. To accompany the tooling and enable
researchers to easily reuse it, the project also provides comprehensive
documentation and templates for widely used CI solutions. In this paper, we
outline the concept for these workflows, and describe how our solution advance
the state of the art in research software publication.
