[Qgis-psc] DOI for QGIS project / Springer Handbook of Geoinformatics / Deadline January 20
Anita Graser
anitagraser at gmx.at
Mon Jan 17 07:20:14 PST 2022
Hi Alessandro,
That doesn't seem to be enough, unfortunately.
But the guide is really straightforward, so anyone with sufficient
privileges should be able to do it rather quickly:
https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/citeyourcode
Regards,
Anita
On 17.01.2022 12:48, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
>
> Hi Anita,
>
> I added you to the "maintain" role on qgis/QGIS , please let me know
> if it's enough.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 12:27 PM Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Zenodo DOI for MovingPandas and it works great. I checked
> if I
> can take care of it but I don't seem to have the necessary rights
> to add
> qgis/QGIS repo to Zenodo. The only qgis repo where I have sufficient
> rights is qgis/PSC.
>
> Anita
>
>
> On 17.01.2022 10:38, Peter Löwe wrote:
> > Dear QGIS Board, dear QGIS Developers,
> >
> > this is very gentle reminder following up to my mail to the QGIS
> Board from last week (see below): The deadline to include a DOI
> for QGIS in the Springer Handbook of Geographic Information is
> coming up on Thursday. I just want to make sure that all software
> projects covered in the Open Source chapter can make an informed
> decision whether they want to have their DOI referenced in the
> Handbook. Otherwise, the project URL will be used for reference.
> >
> > Currently the second Edition of the Springer Handbook for
> Geographic Information
> (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-540-72680-7) is
> being finalised.
> >
> > QGIS is covered in the chapter on Open Source GIS (thanks to the
> volunteer work of Marco Hubentobler !). Neither the Editors nor
> the Authors receive any pay from Springer for their work and won't
> benefit from the volumes sold.
> >
> > Recently, new workflows for scientific citation of software
> projects are becoming state of the art. This includes references
> by persistent digital object identifiers (DOI) to software
> projects instead of URLs. DOI have several benefits over URLs, the
> biggest advantage for this community might be that 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 Springer Handbook will be around for at least five, maybe
> ten years. One reason for DOI (which will keep pointing to the
> latest QGIS release, and maybe more up to date content (see #5
> below) is to give added value to the readers and not to bog them
> down with obsolete information.
> >
> > Until now, eight OSGeo projects will have their DOI referenced
> in the Open Source Chapter, while six more are in the process to
> register their DOI, hopefully before Thursday (details here:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/DOI)
> >
> > The QGIS community can of course register a DOI whenever it
> decides to do so.
> >
> > Some reasons for DOI for the QGIS community might be:
> >
> > 1) Little effort, no cost and significant benefits for everybody
> who's involved in QGIS and can use scientific credit for their
> careers (-> students, early career scientists, people on tenure
> track).
> > 2) preservation of all code releases in an open access long term
> repository (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenodo), free of charge
> and effortless for the project community (bzw: NASA is also using
> this approach for their data publishing:
> https://earthdata.nasa.gov/collaborate/doi-process)
> > 3) Reference by DOI is the way to go when citing anything with a
> long list of authors/committers: QGIS has about _1001_ committers
> according to GitHub, that's a lot.
> > 4) When ORCIDs (https://orcid.org/) for persons serving as
> developers, maintainers, etc. are included into the committer -
> metadata (GitHub-sided), the DOI workflows will pick this up and
> will add due credit by reference to their citation lists.
> > 5) DOI can be used to link information, inclduing video
> recordings and presentations. Videos from FOSS4G events can now be
> linked to software project DOI and vice versa (and also linked to
> ORCIDs of real people), like this one: Dobias, Martin: State of
> QGIS 3D, QGIS ACoruña Conference 2019. https://doi.org/10.5446/40791
> >
> > Registering a DOI for software projects takes only a few minutes
> and is described here:
> > - Howto mit Screenshots:
> https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/citeyourcode
> > - Youtube Howto Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9FGAU9S9Ow
> > - Inclusion of a CFF and a JSON file in the codebase for
> automated GitHub-Zenodo integration:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Persistent_identifiers(pid)#Howto_2
> >
> > Please contact me if you have any questions on this.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Peter
> > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Peter_Loewe
> >
> >> Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. Januar 2022 um 12:57 Uhr
> >> Von: "Peter Löwe" <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
> >> An: board at qgis.org, psc at qgis.org
> >> Betreff: DOI for QGIS project / Springer Handbook of Geoinformatics
> >>
> >> Dear QGIS community,
> >>
> >> I'm reaching out to you because of an opportunity for the QGIS
> project, which surfaced recently:
> >> The upcoming second edition of the Springer Handbook of
> Geoinformatics will cover the QGIS 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 will follow soon.
> >> Hands on information how to register a DOI for a OSGeo project
> are available here:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Persistent_identifiers(pid):
> >>
> >> As an example, this is the DOI for GRASS GIS:
> https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5810537
> >>
> >> 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 QGIS project 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
> >>
> >
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