Software Citation

About: currently how to cite software is not clear or technically resolved, and secondly the documentation of basic information (kind of metadata) is also not clearly defined so that researchers looking to use published works do not have enough information to act on.

Guidance is needed on both issues and we can engage with key players working on these issues.

We can produce three articles, get the community on the forum and point to others how-tos.

• Literature and projects (provisional) https://www.zotero.org/groups/1838445/o-s/items/tag/software-cite 

#Questions 1. needs 3. improving systems  #Editorial 1. empowering 2. discourse 3. bottom-up 5. replicable models #Brand 3. Gender equality 4. Co-creation #Strategy 1. three channel  #Audience 1. carreer 2. engaged

Note: Blog comparators are not carrying stories on this topic

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
• Force11 working group running through https://github.com/force11/force11-sciwg/
• Wikidata
• Software Heritage
• Katrin Leinweber TIB
• 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

How is it being covered elsewhere

Blogs/articles

Resources

2016 Force11 working group running through Dec' 18 https://github.com/force11/force11-sciwg/ https://www.force11.org/software-citation-principles https://peerj.com/articles/cs-86/

2018 Nature Software Submission Guidelines’, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-02741-4 

Citation

1. Theme announce: possibly we announce themes?
2. Blog: Open Science Barcamp – report on software citation by moderator, Sophia Doerner sophia.doerner@hu-berlin.de
3. 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
4. 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 
5. Blog/ resource: someone could give the top 3 lit, news sites, projects, citation managers to use: Literature and projects (provisional) https://www.zotero.org/groups/1838445/o-s/items/tag/software-cite 
   
   

Issues and questions:

Lobby OpenAIRE to include software. Currently OpenAIRE policy is not to include it – forum issue

Reuse

1. Blog no writer yet: #Editorial 2. discourse. How software is described and documented so that its citation can be of use to future practitioners and readers of research publications. Possibly Stephan Druskat (HU Berlin, Citation File Format, @stdruskat, http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4925-7248) of https://research-software.org/citation/

How to break the topic down

• Journals do give guidance
• Style guides give guidance
• Citation managers have software included as a designated source

The Future?

Discover and run scientific code, Code Ocean https://codeocean.com/

Simulations in the browser, Jupyter https://jupyter.org/ and Binder to republish https://mybinder.org

Continuos Integration and validation, with dependencies and full contributor audit 

Create a grid for the theme

To include: timeline, issues, keywords, who to name check, questions to ask.

People