[Qgis-psc] DOI for QGIS project / Springer Handbook of Geoinformatics / Deadline January 20

Mon Jan 17 07:33:02 PST 2022

Hi Anita,

I followed the instructions and we should be good, but as far as I know we
would need to wait until the next release is created in github to get the
webhook triggered and the DOI created.

On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 4:20 PM Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:

> 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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