[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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