#introductions I'm Stephan, originally an English Philologist and Linguist, now a #SoftwareEngineering researcher at the German Aerospace Center's (https://social.bund.de/@dlr) Institute of Software Technology in #Berlin.

I'm a 2018 Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute (https://mastodon.social/@SoftwareSaved), founder and lead of the #CitationFileFormat (https://citation-file-format.github.io/) and co-founder of de-RSE (https://mastodon.social/@de_rse).

I work on #ResearchSoftware, #SoftwareCitation, #SoftwarePublication, #SoftwareIntelligence, #SoftwareSustainability, #EmpiricalSoftwareEngineering.

Huh, I must've missed the announcement.

@swheritage is now providing citation metadata to download as #BibTeX and use via #BibLaTeX (biblatex-software) for archived software with a CITATION.cff file or codemeta.json in the root directory! 🎉

Very cool!

#CitationFileFormat #SoftwareHeritage #ResearchSoftware #SoftwareCitation

Want to leverage the advantages of the #CitationFileFormat (richer metadata on Zenodo, GitHub integration, readable by open source reference managers) for research software that has already been published?

You can export the metadata of an existing #Zenodo record to a CFF file 😍.

(Pro tip: Rename the downloaded file to `CITATION.cff`.)

@amoeba @JustinG Nothing published (or in fact done with it apart from counting) yet, but I have around 55k #CitationFileFormat files for around 16k GitHub repositories, including historic versions (and their commit hashes).

Very exciting to see that the #NASA #NASATOPS open science curriculum recommends CITATION.cff files in the #CitationFileFormat to provide and find the correct citation metadata for open research outputs 🚀!

The course materials themselves have their own CITATION.cff file 😎.

https://fosstodon.org/@crawfordsm@mastodon.social/111534177944500369

At #HMCDialogue webinar, learning about a new "single source of truth" format & tool for keeping #ResearchSoftware #Metadata up-to-date across formats: #CitationCFF (#CitationFileFormat), #CodeMeta, #pyprojectTOML, etc.

https://materials-data-science-and-informatics.github.io/somesy/v0.1.0/

@helmholtz_hmc

@dhernangomez @frod_san Thanks for taking over, @dhernangomez, I wouldn't have enough experience with #RStats packaging myself.

What you've written makes sense, in that the packages serve different purposes, and can peacefully coexist 🙂.

Just to add that use of #CitationFileFormat files isn't restricted to GitHub of course, but GitHub makes the most visible use of them. (They'd still be useful on another platform or in, say, a distributed zip file.)

@frod_san Are you aware of the {cffr} #RStats package that produces CITATION.cff files for R? There seems to be some overlap, and perhaps there is value in letting the two interface with each other?

https://github.com/ropensci/cffr

#CitationFileFormat #SoftwareCitation

If you already have a CITATION.cff file in the #CitationFileFormat and want a comfortable way to update (and validate) it to enable #SoftwareCitation, @abelsiqueira from the @eScienceCenter has created another great video that walks you through the process using the cffinit web tool. 😍

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ik1onYbO3A

Want to get started with #SoftwareCitation but don't know how?

@abelsiqueira from the @eScienceCenter has created a great video that walks you through creating a CITATION.cff file in the #CitationFileFormat using the cffinit web tool. 😍

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcgLIT5Qd4M

Just learned that the cookiecutter4fair repository template (https://github.com/FAIR4HEP/cookiecutter4fair) includes a template for CITATION.cff files in the #CitationFileFormat. Nice!

@eScienceCenter @TUEindhoven Suitably enough, I talked about the #CitationFileFormat today at @WWU_Muenster@twitter.com, presenting preliminary results from an analysis of 7k+ CFF files that show that using #cffinit to create your files helps greatly with file validity ✅.

Slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7346192

Excited to be on my way to an @NSF funded workshop on community-led data & software publishing in Pismo Beach, CA.

I'll be wearing my #CitationFileFormat and #HERMES hats, and am looking forward to meet lots of people from great initiatives and projects for the first time, to discuss aims, ideas and collaborations to improve 💻 #SoftwarePublication.

(Unfortunately, the weather doesn't look like I can sneak in a 🏄 session.)