[gdal-dev] Fwd: DOI for the GDAL project / Springer Handbook of Geoinformatics

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

see below. Do we want to do that ? I'm not seeing any obvious 
disadvantage, but I've never worked with DOI before. If so, anyone who 
want to take the lead on that ?

Even

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Sujet : 	DOI for the GDAL project / Springer Handbook of Geoinformatics
Date : 	Wed, 12 Jan 2022 17:23:40 +0100
De : 	Peter Löwe <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
Pour : 	even.rouault at spatialys.com



Hello Even,

I'm writing to you as OSgeo Vice President for GDAL concerning an 
opportunity for the GDAL project. Could you please forward the following 
message to the GDAL PSC - or please tell me about a better way to 
contact the PSC directly ?

Dear GDAL Project Steering Committee,

I'm reaching out to you because of an opportunity for the PROJ 
community, which surfaced recently:
The upcoming second edition of the Springer Handbook of Geoinformatics 
will cover the GDAL project. The Handbook project has been delayed due 
to the Pandemic, but will be completed in a few weeks. I am serving as 
the editor of the Handbook chapter about Open Source Geoinformatics.

Recently, new workflows for scientific citation of software projects 
have emerged and are becoming state of the art. This includes references 
by persistent digital object identifiers (DOI) to software projects 
instead of URLs. DOI-based references allow to give due credit to the 
whole project team, including first authors, developers, but also 
maintainers and people in other roles.

The OSGeo projects GRASS GIS, GMT, MapServer, MOSS and rasdaman have 
already registered their own DOI, OSGeoLive, pygeoapi and pycsw will 
follow soon.
As an example, this is the DOI for GRASS GIS: 
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5810537
Hands on information how to register a DOI for a OSGeo project are 
available here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Persistent_identifiers(pid).

The Editors of the Springer Handbook agree that including DOI references 
for Open Source projects is a win-win-scenario for the upcoming book and 
also the OSGeo project communities. They have extended the production 
deadline until January 20 to give additional software projects the 
opportunity to register a DOI to be included in the book chapter.

If the GDAL project reserves or registers a DOI (takes only a few 
minutes) before the deadline of January 20, I would gladly include it in 
the Open Source Geoinformatics chapter reference section.


Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best,
Peter

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Peter_Loewe

<peter.loewe at gmx.de>


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