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

Tue Jan 18 01:36:01 PST 2022

I tried a manual upload: https://zenodo.org/record/5869838

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 9:59 AM Peter Löwe <peter.loewe at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi Anita, Nyall, all,
>
> the json file is indeed optional (and can be added in the next release,
> maybe together with a matching CITATION.CFF (also optional)). The
> auto-generated list of authors (AFAIK the names of the owners of the
> GitHub- and Zenodo-accounts) is (just) part of the metadata on the QGIS DOI
> landing page ("the Zenodo page for QGIS"). This list of authors can be
> edited and extended after the DOI has been registered. It is not part of
> the permanently preserved digital record (which can't be changed after
> upload).
>
> Best,
> Peter
>
> <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
>
>
> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. Januar 2022 um 08:38 Uhr
> > Von: "Anita Graser" <anitagraser at gmx.at>
> > An: "Nyall Dawson" <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>, "Alessandro Pasotti" <
> apasotti at gmail.com>
> > Cc: "qgis-psc" <qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org>
> > Betreff: Re: [Qgis-psc] DOI for QGIS project / Springer Handbook of
> Geoinformatics / Deadline January 20
> >
> >
> > On 18.01.2022 00:03, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> > > On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 at 01:33, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >> 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.
> > > Don't we also need .zenodo.json file added and populated? (as per
> > > https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/pull/3019)
> >
> > Hi Nyall,
> >
> > That seems optional. I don't have one in MovingPandas and the
> > contributor names are automatically generated from Github accounts I
> > guess: https://zenodo.org/record/5838821
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Anita
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Nyall
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> 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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