[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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