About

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.

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

Editorial evaluation

Editorial criterion

#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. career 2. engaged

Note: Blog comparators are not carrying stories on this topic (3.18 SW)

How to break the topic down

Community: to engage 

Literature and projects (Zotero)

https://www.zotero.org/groups/1838445/o-s/items/tag/software-cite

Key resources

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

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

Stories

Blog post in and running order:

Launch

Followed by 

No, or no signs of life

Possible and being worked on

Editorial posts (to do)

Notebook (June to August)

In the notebook - but outside of the theme:

Issues and questions:

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

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.

Contacts

See software cite theme contacts

How To

Practical guide for GitHub using Zenoda to store a version and get a PID DOI https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/

How CiteAs searches for sources http://citeas.org/sources