[open-science] citing a code and data on a GitHub repository

Tue Dec 3 17:29:28 UTC 2013

JORS (the Journal of Open Research Software) is another alternative:
http://openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com - with the additional benefit that
the descriptions are citable.

- Brian

On 3 December 2013 17:17, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Arfon Smith <arfon at github.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd be interested to hear if there's been any effort put into how to
>> properly describe the function of a piece of code in a file like
>> BibJSON. For example, knowing that a piece of code was written in
>> Python, was for an astrophysics domain and performed coordinate
>> transformations. It feels like that could be encapsulated in some kind
>> of meta descriptor file which could then be indexed (and searched).
>>
>> Has anyone seen anything like this done?
>>
>
> DOAP? https://github.com/edumbill/doap/wiki
>
> Tom
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