Hi Andrew,
Regarding the metadata I agree. It's something we
might use as a first starting point together with a related
landing page that more or less shows the metadata in a
convenient way plus additional information such as metrics and
some interactive elements like links or a web based code
repository browser.
Unfortunately, the DOI thing isn't that easy. Either
Eclipse becomes a DOI minting agency itself or an existing
partnership with a partner who already is a registered agency
supports this idea. Thus the DOI infrastructure provided by the
partner already exists, is maintained, and finally can be used
for minting DOIs, for maintaining the metadata, and for properly
redirecting the DOI to the landing page.
Furthermore, an agency is a member of the
International DOI Foundation (IDF), as far as I know, and has to
commit to certain regulations, e.g. if an agency shuts down
services than the other member/agencies have to sort out how DOI
labeled digital objects are taken over by the other members. So
if the Eclipse Foundation wants to mint DOIs itself it finally
means the foundation is part of a kind of social commitment and
has to consider further implications. So having the opportunity
to get support by a partner who already takes care of all of
this in the role of a DOI minting agency would possibly be
highly beneficial in a first phase.
And last but not least, the IDF membership and the
minting of DOIs costs money, as far as I know.
So the one thing is the technical implementation and
the set-up of some additional processes that possibly can be put
on top as a kind of simple layer realising the idea without
touching what already exists and is working for the WGs.
The other thing is the DOI related stuff, that should
be well thought out since this is another world we depend on if
we want to assign DOIs to software releases. Unfortunately, this
is the currency in sciences. However, we may also consider the
use of the Handle system at first, which is the foundation of
the DOI system. As far as I know, its no problem to make use of
the Handle system at no cost. This would allow a first proof of
concept.
Just some further thoughts ... I am not an expert in
this library and publisher driven DOI world.
Best,
Martin
On 17 Apr 2015 21:58, "Andrew Ross" <
andrew.ross@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Dear Philip,
Martin, and All
I like the idea FWIW. And it sounds quite reasonable to
implement.
Part of the meta data could be a git commit and direct link to
the code repository.
I suspect the team/community could determine the meta data
fields without too much trouble.
How would the DOI be generated? I'm wondering if this is
something we can automate and simply give to all releases and
maybe even all builds.
Kind regards,
Andrew
On 16/04/15 08:04, Philip Wenig wrote:
Hi folks,
Martin gave an excellent talk about the publication of
software at the EGU meeting yesterday. Scientists get reward
for papers but not for software. Papers are cited, software
not. That's a drawback for a scientific career. As we know,
software has become crucial in scientific research nowadays.
Hence, I'd like to share some of Martin's ideas with you:
* Certain Science/LocationTech WG releases/packages get a
DOI
* The DOI points to a landing page with appropriate metadata
to cite the release/package
* The release/package can be cited and will be ranked on
Google Scholar and other systems
= This could be an incentive for more scientists to publish
their software under the umbrella of the Science and
LocationTech WG.
What's your opinion?
Best,
Philip
PDF of Martin's presentation:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tulhwtEK9l1yGaAX1YWsMR7OrQAwWDee4N2M1Yy7bIo/edit?pli=1#slide=id.gada00e2fc_0_866
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