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

Tue Dec 3 19:51:08 UTC 2013

JORS currently uses standard artice metadata. This is being enhanced at the
moment however as a new online editor for the papers is in the works (to be
released in January), which gives us a good opportunity to address the
metadata as well, and we'll definitely take a look at DOAP and other
examples to see how this could be improved.

- Brian

On 3 December 2013 18:02, Carl Boettiger <cboettig at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great question. DOAP looks pretty promising.
>
> In ecology we have our own XML-schema metadata standard for describing
> software, whose vocabulary is pretty generic:
> http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/eml/eml-2.1.1/eml-software.html Not
> RDF but the standard has been around for 10 years with reasonable adoption
> in our discipline.  I assume other disciplines have similar creatures.
>
> Of course language-specific repositories often have their own way of
> representing software metadata.  For instance, R packages on CRAN specify
> generic metadata such as project title, description, authors, version, url,
> bug reports, etc, in a machine-readable querable plain text format, e.g.
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/XML/  Certainly there are other
> examples (cpan, etc).
>
> Would be nice if everyone wrapped some semantics like DOAP around this to
> make these things more universal.
>
> Does JORS provide a machine-readable version of the metadata in their
> descriptions?
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Brian Hole <brian.hole at ubiquitypress.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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> Carl Boettiger
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