#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.

#introduction I'm Dan Katz, Chief Scientist at NCSA (https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/) at U Illinois and Res Prof in CS and our iSchool. I'm also a co-founder of ReSA (https://www.researchsoft.org/), US-RSE (https://us-rse.org/), JOSS (https://joss.theoj.org/), and URSSI (https://urssi.us/). I work on #researchsoftware #softwaresustainability #softwarecitation #policy #RSEng #scholcomm #FAIR #FAIR4RS #FAIR4ML #cyberinfrastructure #HPC
Hobbies: #photography #birdphotography #reading #walks

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

Thanks to #CURIOSS members, Collin Capano and William Gearty at the Syracuse University #OSPO, for sharing this fascinating talk from @adam42smith on the #citationstylelanguage

📺https://bit.ly/4kFoCf7

#academicOSS #academicOSPOs #citation #opensource #opensourcesoftware #openscience #openresearch #softwarecitation

A new paper about @joss

"The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): Bringing Open-Source Software Practices to the Scholarly Publishing Community for Authors, Reviewers, Editors, and Publishers"

https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.18285

#Publishing #ScientificPublishing #SoftwareCitation #OpenSource #Software #RSEng #ResearchSoftware #SoftwareEngineering

Do you publish your #ResearchSoftware to support #Reproducibility and enable #SoftwareCitation?

If you don't yet, or want to automate the process, join me at @helmholtz_hmc #hmc_fairfriday this Friday, where I'll talk about these things and #HERMES, a workflow we develop in @helmholtz to automate software publication with rich metadata.

https://events.hifis.net/event/1867/

"How do official software citation formats evolve over time? A longitudinal analysis of R programming language packages"

by Yuzhuo Wang and @nalsi

in Scientometrics

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05064-6

(unfortunately not open access, but there's a preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09390)

#SoftwareCitation #RSEng #ResearchSoftware

An interesting new tool to promote #SoftwareCitation and credit in #astronomy:

The Software Citation Station: a website for making citing software used in your research quick and easy

by Tom Wagg & Floor Broekgaarden

https://www.tomwagg.com/software-citation-station/

(and a paper about this, now on GitHub, soon to be on arXiv: https://github.com/TomWagg/software-citation-station/blob/main/paper.pdf)

Pleased that our paper "Nine best practices for research software registries and repositories" is part of the PeerJ special issue on Software Citation, Indexing, and Discoverability. This was joint work with Alice Allen, Daniel Garijo, Hervé Ménager, Lorraine Hwang, Ana Trisovic, Tom Morrell, Dan Katz, and many others in the SciCodes consortium.

Paper: https://peerj.com/articles/cs-1023/
Special issue: https://peerj.com/collections/84-software
SciCodes: https://scicodes.net

#SoftwareCitation #ResearchSoftware

📢 Out now:

"Towards Research Software-ready Libraries", a paper by me, @astruck and O. Bertuch discussing what libraries can do to support research software in their respective spheres.

💎 #OpenAccess

https://doi.org/10.1515/abitech-2023-0031

#ResearchSoftware #SoftwarePublication #SoftwareCitation #AcademicLibraries

This #arXiv paper on #SoftwareCitation looks interesting, though I haven't read it in detail yet

How do software citation formats evolve over time? A longitudinal analysis of R programming language packages

by Yyzhuo Wang and @nalsi

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09390

By the way: very cool, that Spadini/Palenzuela cite in their #DH2023 abstract our web service @correspSearch properly as a software publication. That's very kind! 🙂

(Unfortunately, this is not done very often, although we actually have a citation recommendation: https://correspsearch.net/en/citation.html).

#software #softwarecitation

Interesting read on #SoftwareCitation:

"A multi-level analysis of data quality for formal software citation" by David Schindler, Tazin Hossain, Sascha Spors, @frankkrueger

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17535

From the abstract: The results show that software articles are the most cited resource for software, while direct software citations are better suited for identification of software versions. Moreover, we found current practices ... to be unsuited to represent these direct software citations

#StackOverflow announce Labs ("improving the developer experience across products" or similar), arguing: "Accuracy is fundamental. That comes from attributed, peer-reviewed sources that provide transparency."

Sounds like they're facing similar issues like us academics/#ResearchSoftwareEngineers do with #SoftwarePublication and #SoftwareCitation, software authorship, #Reproducibility and the like.

Perhaps there's something to learn from them along the way...

@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

just saying 😃 - software citation needed - #softwarecitation https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Software_citation_needed.jpg

Current best practice in #SoftwareCitation has been laid down by in the 2016 Software Citation Principles from the FORCE11 working group. What should be pointed to as the source is a conundrum far better detailed in that work, than in this series of toots!

As far as I can tell though, all the energy appears to have gone into the form of the reference, not the form and detail in the citation. Citation and reference are conflated (as they often are elsewhere). But they're different!

4/7

Really thoughtful suggestion to draw attention to maintenance of #ResearchSoftware. In a nutshell: articles for updates could draw attention to maintenance efforts. Which leads me to wonder something related to this about the #SoftwareCitation movement. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02008-w

Software citation is a different solution, asking researchers to cite the software directly. Software is, after all, a creative, intellectual work. Articles about software are an intermediary solution. 1/7

I'm very happy to see the report from last summer's Software Citation Workshop is now out

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07500

(by Daina Bouquin, Ana Trisovic, Oliver Bertuch, @elenarchivist)

#SoftwareCitation #FORCE11

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