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• German National Library of Science and Technology, Hannover
• scientific software services, FAIR data principles, etc.
• Disclaimer: I'm here as an interested user. Not on behalf of any organisation or project mentioned herein.

• scientists credit each other by citing journal articles, books, etc.
  • see 34c3 talks: "Science is Broken" & "Algorithmic science evaluation and power structure"
  • reproducibility crisis => increased interest in data citations
• also: software not equally accepted as citable unit of work, yet (scripts, packages, source code, etc.)
• some community infrastructures:Debian Science,rOpenSci,CRAN,swMATH.org,SoftwareHeritage.org, etc.

• likeLICENSE,COPYING,INSTALL, etc.
• Make a wish!¹
• Don't be shy! Try@software{...}
  • compatible withBibLaTeX,biber,Zotero, etc.
  • more examples:GitHub.com/search?q=filename:CITATION (You need to be logged in to see the results.)

@book{wickham_ggplot2_2009,    author = {Hadley Wickham},    title = {ggplot2: elegant graphics for data analysis},    ...},}

• example from R community: nativeDESCRIPTION translated by "codemetaR" into:

{"@context": ["http://purl.org/codemeta/2.0","http://schema.org"    ],"@id":"https://doi.org10.5281/zenodo.1048320","@type":"SoftwareSourceCode","identifier":"codemetar","description":"... defines a 'JSON-LD' format for ...","issueTracker":"https://github.com/ropensci/codemetar/issues",...}

• in 2018, watch out forCiteAs.org andYAML-based Citation-File-Format.GitHub.io
• upstream: buildcodemetaR-like packages / plug-ins for other languages, IDEs, etc.
• downstream: contributeGitHub.com/Zotero/translators (.js to extract bibliographic info from websites)

• Smith AM, Katz DS, Niemeyer KE, FORCE11 Software Citation Working Group. (2016) Software citation principles. PeerJ Computer Science 2:e86 doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.86
• Katherine Thornton & Finn Årup Nielsen: "Describing Software So We Can Cite Software" media.ccc.de/v/wikidatacon2017-10013
• GitHub.com/FORCE11/FORCE11-SCIWG (Software Citation Implementation Working Group of the Future of Research Communication and E-Scholarship)