Simon Worthington, editor, Generation R, April 2018, TIB
The submission of software as a research output is becoming more common. As a result a number of area need addressing and improving in the research life cycle of a software project.
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Breaking down the topic
- A key issue is discovery and evaluation. Researchers need more information about software used in experiments, and to have access to the source code to be able to access and run the software cited.
- For software maintainers guidance is needed about what core metadata needs to be stored with the software in a similar way to how open licences and copyright notices are stored.
- Currently how to cite software is not clear or technically resolved, and secondly the documentation of basic information (metadata) that a software maker should provide is also not clearly defined so that researchers looking to use published works do not have enough information to act on.
Editorial evaluation
How to break the topic down
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- Look at projects
- How to record information to describe a software project and its contributors
- Projects going on to create systems for software citation: to record, to read, to collect, etc. Get input from different projects. What are their research questions/interim findings. We have So far these examples have been found: CodeMeta, CFF, and CiteAs.
- What information do journals and repositories want when submitting software
- How can citing be more useful for researchers. Is there enough information to be useful for research publication/software readers/users
- The Future: Can software cited be fully available in a – validated, CI, packet managed, dependency managed, and virtualised way – so that it can be retrieved or run live. e.g, Jupyter https://jupyter.org/ and Binder to republish https://mybinder.org
- Note: we need clear guidelines or pointers to this info, for different users: software makers, journal submissions of software, and academic writers of scholarly literature editorial groups wanting to cite software.
- Area survey. Top three info sources in each area: journals, papers, software citation software project, working groups and organisations
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- Simple guides
- Look for working groups like Force11 working groups
Community
- #oscibar https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/oscibar2018_session10
- Zenodo
- CodeMeta https://github.com/codemeta/codemeta
- CFF Citation File Format https://citation-file-format.github.io/
- CiteAs http://citeas.org/about by http://impactstory.org/
- Force11 working group running through https://github.com/force11/force11-sciwg/
- Wikidata
- Software Heritage
- Katrin Leinweber TIB - Software Carpentry
- de-RSE (Research Software Engineers) Group (German group): http://www.de-rse.org/en/Software Heritage
- Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE) https://twitter.com/WSSSPE
Literature and projects (Zotero)
A collaborative bibliography on software citation https://www.zotero.org/groups/1838445/o-s/items/tag/software-cite
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2018 Nature Software Submission Guidelines’, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-02741-4
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Content packages - wish list
- Theme announce: possibly we announce themes?
- Blog: Open Science Barcamp – report on software citation by moderator, Sophia Doerner sophia.doerner@hu-berlin.de
- Blog: Software Citation 'How-to' article and follow on forum – Katrin Leinweber TIB, title: Concrete advice for more sustainable scientific software projects. On private TIB Git https://git.tib.eu/leinweberk/FAIR-Data-Prinzipien-auf-Software-anwenden
- Forum/how-tos: The Software Citation community - get them onto the forum to help move things forward. I now have the contacts and literature from #OSBarcamp community
- Blog/ resource: someone could give the top 3 lit, journals, projects, citation managers to use: Literature and projects (provisional) https://www.zotero.org/groups/1838445/o-s/items/tag/software-cite
- FOSTER Force11 group report
- Project: CFF Citation File Format
- Project: CodeMeta
- Project: CiteAs
- Software Herritage
- Re-use and journals. Blog. How software is described and documented so that its citation can be of use to future practitioners and readers of research publications. e.g. 2018 Nature Software Submission Guidelines’, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-02741-4
- Basics guidance for key users
Issues and questions:
Lobby OpenAIRE to include software. Currently OpenAIRE policy is not to include it – forum issue
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To include: timeline, issues, keywords, who to name check, actors, stakeholders, users and questions to ask.
Contacts
See software cite theme contacts