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

Tue Nov 12 20:15:13 UTC 2013

BibJSON is more of format. But I didn't know that, Emanuil, thanks for mentioning!

Also I got (from Rainere Silva) a link to a nice discussion on the topic:
http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org/2013-October/001048.html

Sheila, thanks for pointing to another discussion.

Regards,
Piotr
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On 12 Nov 2013, at 17:15, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:

> I saw some discussion happening about this on one of the software-carpentry mailing lists, but since those aren't for the general world, more discussion could happen here or on the sci tech mailing list I created for people to discuss technical details and implementation ideas for tools they work on.
> 
> Here's a conversation I posted and then a good reply from Aron Ahmadia. The WSSPE workshop is coming up, and he suggested reading through the contributions on citation.
> 
> http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/contributions/
> http://lists.hackingscience.org/pipermail/scitech-hackingscience.org/2013-October/000001.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Emanuil Tolev <emanuil at cottagelabs.com> wrote:
> A mix of BibJSON fields can probably *describe* such a reference satisfactorily in a machine-friendly format. http://www.bibjson.org/
> 
> If I had to do it in my own work, I'd work up from that, trying to make sure it's consistent with whatever format I'm using for the rest of the bibliography (e.g. IEEE). Most of them have some measure of support for "a thing with a URL". I realise that's not ideal though, and BibJSON is only good as far "what pieces of information do I put in" goes, not, say, formatting them.
> 
> Greetings,
> Emanuil
> 
> 
> On 11 November 2013 17:50, Piotr Migdal <pmigdal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Does any of you know what is the preferred way to cite code (placed on GitHub)?
> 
> I saw the question here:
> http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/14010/how-do-you-cite-a-github-repository
> 
> Also, a similar question (i.e. citing things not being journal publications) for  OEIS:
> http://mathoverflow.net/questions/131245/how-to-cite-a-sequence-from-the-on-line-encyclopedia-of-integer-sequences-oeis
> 
> Do you know what is "good practice"?
> Is there some (perhaps informal) place trying to standardize the format (e.g. in BibTeX) or in general worth looking for a reference?
> 
> Regards,
> Piotr
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