[GRASS-PSC] Introducing DOI for software, documentation and data in the GRASS project

[Vaclav Petras]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 6:04 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:

> The question for me is: what do we need to do for that? Since a DOI
> refers to a state in time, GRASS GIS module DOIs might be attached to
> releases since they evolve over time. How would that practically work?
>

There are some services which can give you DOI for SW. From what I
understood, DOI for a specific version in version control is often
encourage, but that wouldn't work if you want to add the DOI back to the
source or documentation because you just advanced the version in version
control. Associating DOI with release makes more sense but than what to do
with addons which (at least usually) don't have releases? Also some modules
don't change between releases of GRASS GIS. Does this mean same DOI or
different one?

Also, one module would accumulate different DOIs over time. Can we than
accumulate number of citations for one module?

Another idea (for core modules) is assigning DOI to GRASS GIS release and
then use DOI with hash (...doi.../123456#r.slope.aspect) similarly to how
the TBI AV-Portal references an exact time in a video. I hope Peter has a
better idea if this makes at least some sense or it is completely off.

Anyway, my current vision, partially related and partially unrelated, is to
have a `Cite as` section in the manual unique for each module which would
be generated from info stored in the parser information. Using parser is
more flexible than putting it to the HTML directly and `Cite as` is more
clear than including the info into `References` section. The info for `Cite
as` can be DOI for the module or a paper associated with the module.
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