This #arXiv paper on #SoftwareCitation looks interesting, though I haven't read it in detail yet

How do software citation formats evolve over time? A longitudinal analysis of R programming language packages

by Yyzhuo Wang and @nalsi

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09390

Interesting read on #SoftwareCitation:

"A multi-level analysis of data quality for formal software citation" by David Schindler, Tazin Hossain, Sascha Spors, @frankkrueger

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17535

From the abstract: The results show that software articles are the most cited resource for software, while direct software citations are better suited for identification of software versions. Moreover, we found current practices ... to be unsuited to represent these direct software citations

Current best practice in #SoftwareCitation has been laid down by in the 2016 Software Citation Principles from the FORCE11 working group. What should be pointed to as the source is a conundrum far better detailed in that work, than in this series of toots!

As far as I can tell though, all the energy appears to have gone into the form of the reference, not the form and detail in the citation. Citation and reference are conflated (as they often are elsewhere). But they're different!

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Really thoughtful suggestion to draw attention to maintenance of #ResearchSoftware. In a nutshell: articles for updates could draw attention to maintenance efforts. Which leads me to wonder something related to this about the #SoftwareCitation movement. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02008-w

Software citation is a different solution, asking researchers to cite the software directly. Software is, after all, a creative, intellectual work. Articles about software are an intermediary solution. 1/

I'm very happy to see the report from last summer's Software Citation Workshop is now out

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07500

(by Daina Bouquin, Ana Trisovic, Oliver Bertuch, @elenarchivist)

#SoftwareCitation #FORCE11

cffinit 2.2.0 was just launched, and now you can update existing CITATION.cff files, even if they were not created using cffinit.
We, at the @eScienceCenter, are very interested to know what you think of the new features.

https://citation-file-format.github.io/cff-initializer-javascript/#/

#citation #fairsoftware #softwarecitation

Tomorrow & Wednesday will be a virtual workshop on "Software Citation and Recognition in HEP"

If you're interested in #softwarecitation & credit for software developers & maintainers in High Energy Physics #HEP, feel free to register and join us.

The meeting, jointly organized by HSF & IRIS-HEP, aims at community discussion around how HEP experiments handle citation of software & recognition for software efforts that enable physics results disseminated to the public.

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1211229/

#introduction I'm Dan Katz, Chief Scientist at NCSA (https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/) at U Illinois and Assoc Res Prof in CS, ECE, and our iSchool. I'm also a co-founder of ReSA (https://www.researchsoft.org/), US-RSE (https://us-rse.org/), JOSS (https://joss.theoj.org/), and URSSI (https://urssi.us/). I work on #researchsoftware #softwaresustainability #softwarecitation #policy #RSEng #scholcomm #FAIR #FAIR4RS #FAIR4ML #cyberinfrastructure #HPC
Hobbies: #photography #birdphotography #reading #walks

Announcing a virtual mini-workshop on #Software #Citation and Recognition in High Energy Physics, w/ discussion & ideas for improvement: 2 half-days 22-23 Nov 2022, organized by @hepsoftfound & @iris_hep

See https://indico.cern.ch/event/1211229/ to register

#softwarecitation #HEP

JOSS is the Journal of Open Source Software, btw: https://joss.theoj.org

It's a diamond open access #diamondOA journal that uses #GitHub issues for collaborative open #review of software and short papers to provide #opensource developers and maintainers in academia placeholder papers that fit the scholarly publishing system (while we also try to change the system to encourage direct #softwarecitation)

Invitation to contribute, review!

For a contribution to a book publication the ‘Citizen Science for Research Libraries - A Guide’ in the Infrastructure section to be published Oct 2021 by the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group.

Contact: Co-editor-in-chief, Simon Worthington, TIB
https://demo.hedgedoc.org/s/UTCAyOfNQ#

#CitizenScience #SoftwareCitation

#openscience #softwarecitation https://demo.hedgedoc.org/s/UTCAyOfNQ#

It's good to encourage software citation. I wonder if folks are or will be using these styles of citation even when they know they exist. I know when I've needed to cite software before, I just made a @misc entry, put the software name in the title, version in the description (or note?) along with a URL. No one worried about it, least of all, me. Kinda hard to see the push or pull towards this format other than an individual, PI, funder, or publisher mandating it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhQCeAj9yKM&feature=youtu.be

#software #softwarecitation #openresearch #opensource #latex #biblatex #softwareheritage