Philip, thanks for raising this issue and thanks to all for sharing.
If you are interested we may arrange a Hangout to share and discuss ideas. We may present approaches and activities already implemented as well as ideas and eventually next steps how to overcome related issues.
If this would be fine with you we could consider end of April or beginning of May for a Hangout.
I like the blogpost about the reasons to be a research software
engineer :-).
Thanks also Jay for adding your comment. As far as I understood
Martin, the DOIed "software" package could contain also a paper
describing it. The difference to a sole paper is, that the reviewers
and/or readers can have a better understanding of it by using the
software with test or real world data.
Best,
Philip
Am 16.04.2015 um 14:46 schrieb Jay Jay
Billings:
I concur, although I will add one point.
We recognize these problems at ORNL and are working on it.
However, one thing that we have started doing to kind of have
our cake and eat it too is to publish papers on the software
itself from a software engineering perspective and to work
with users to jointly author papers on the science. Most of
both papers can be constructed from documentation in the
source.
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.
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