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

[Alan Snow]

Helpful reference:
https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/archiving-a-github-repository/referencing-and-citing-content

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 10:56 AM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> 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> <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> <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
>
>
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