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

[Peter Löwe]

Hello gdal-dev-list,

regarding the current discussion on how to register DOI for GDAL, I've contacted the helpdesks of Zenodo and DataCite. DataCite is the organisation providing the global DOI-infrastructure. Zenodo is an open access repository where a growing number of OSGeo projects already have registered DOI for their codebases.

The question is whether once a DOI for GDAL has been registered manually/retrospectively for the current release (GDAL 3.4.1) it will be feasible to switch to automated DOI versioning for all future GDAL releases.

The DataCite helpdesk confirms, this approach from their infrastructure perspective: "From the DataCite side I don't see anything that would mean the manual workflow could not change to an automated one, but this is something that Zenodo would need to confirm."

The Zenodo helpdesk confirmed this approach last night: "We can actually connect this record to a "virtual" release on our side as if it was actually part of the Github repo. Could you give us more details, for example, the records in question and the GitHub repos?".
-> I have told them that this applies to GDAL (among other projects). No response yet.
Maybe someone of the project community is interested and able to contact the Zenodo help desk directly on this (info at zenodo.org) ?

The deadline to include a DOI for the GDAL project to the Open Source Chapter of the Springer Handbook on Geographic Information is today end of business Pacific Time.

By now, ten OSGeo projects will have their DOI referenced in the Chapter (more to come in the next hours). It would be awesome if GDAL could be included, too.

Best,
Peter

<peter.loewe at gmx.de>