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

Tue Dec 3 20:41:48 UTC 2013

Agreed. Is this schema definition for JORS going to be discussed
publicly before implementation?

On 3 December 2013 14:39, Carl Boettiger <cboettig at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brian, thanks for clarifying.  I think a schema or semantic annotation of
> the software descriptions published in JORS would be a great service to the
> community.  Looking forward to seeing what you come up with,
>
> - Carl
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Brian Hole <brian.hole at ubiquitypress.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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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