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

Tue Dec 3 20:59:11 UTC 2013

We'd be happy to do so, and it would of course also be extremely helpful.
I'll pass this on to the team and keep you up to date.

B

On 3 December 2013 20:41, Arfon Smith <arfon at github.com> wrote:

> 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.htmlNot
> >>> 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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