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

Anita Graser anitagraser at gmx.at
Tue Jan 18 02:00:19 PST 2022


Dear Peter,

Thank you for the push. I'll also update
https://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/faq/index.html#how-to-cite-qgis to
include the DOI.

Regards,

Anita

On 18.01.2022 10:57, Peter Löwe wrote:
> Anita, all,
> thanks for taking action & congratulations to minting a DOI for QGIS.
> From now on the QGIS codebase will be long term preserved in the
> Zenodo open access repository and will be referenced by DOI in the
> upcoming second edition of the Springer Handbook of Geographic
> Information.
> Best,
> Peter
> <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 18. Januar 2022 um 10:38 Uhr
> *Von:* "Anita Graser" <anitagraser at gmx.at>
> *An:* "Alessandro Pasotti" <apasotti at gmail.com>, "Peter Löwe"
> <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
> *Cc:* "Nyall Dawson" <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>, "qgis-psc"
> <qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Betreff:* Re: [Qgis-psc] DOI for QGIS project / Springer Handbook of
> Geoinformatics / Deadline January 20
>
> That's great. Thanks, Alessandro!
>
> I've added the "all versions" DOI to https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/DOI
>
> Regards,
>
> Anita
>
> On 18.01.2022 10:36, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
>
>     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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