This is a Giter8 template for creating an sbt project that manages publication of resources for the CLU Lab. Being for resources, there is no building involved beyond the zipping up of the files into a jar so that it can be readily accessed by Scala/Java. It is specifically for the CLU Lab because it includes URLs to the lab's Artifactory and Sonatype servers, which wouldn't work for other groups.
To use this template as an sbt project, do not clone it, but instead run
$ sbt new http://github.com/clulab/sbt-resource.g8.git
and when prompted, give values for name, package, resource, and explanation (i.e., description, but that seems to be a reserved word). Then specify whether it is artifactory (or maven) that should be used to publish the resource and whether or not the jar file should be compressed. This should result in an sbt project called <name> in the current directory of your hard drive. Overwrite the placeholder resource at src/main/resources/<package>/<resource> with a copy of your own resource. Files from there will be added to the jar file that gets published. The project's README.md file should explain the steps of that process, but you will want to remove the instructions and instead describe your resource.
If you want to modify the template itself, then do clone the project from github and change what you'd like. Test it by running g8 from sbt and finding the results in the ./target/g8 directory.
$ git clone http://githubcom/clulab/sbt-resource.g8
$ cd sbt-resource.g8
$ sbt g8
$ cd target/g8
The template language used by g8 is taken from StringTemplate and its documentation is very helpful.