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

Tom Morris tfmorris at gmail.com
Tue Dec 3 17:17:41 UTC 2013


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
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-science/attachments/20131203/d6ade4a0/attachment.html>


More information about the open-science mailing list