search

OpenScienceMOOC / Module-5-Open-Research-Software-and-Open-Source

Module 5: Open Research Software and Open Source
https://eliademy.com/catalog/oer/module-5-open-research-software-and-open-source.html
MIT License
74 stars 52 forks source link

authors in Zenodo #24

Closed mrchristian closed 6 years ago

mrchristian commented 6 years ago

Hi,

We need clarification about where authors are derived from in Zenodo when importing a GitHub repo. Is it from the GitHub user account, or is it from the CONTRIBUTOR file.

Also note in Zenodo you can add authors.

I could test out where the authors are derived from but if someone has the answer that will be easier.

When we have clarification I'll edit para.

Simon

mrchristian commented 6 years ago

Hi,

I raised a ticket on this with Zenodo/OpenAIRE as it can become a little nuanced (what a surprise).

QUOTE: Reference | 01251-2018-07-21

Hi, I'm writing documentation on submitting GitHub repositories for researchers to Zenodo and I need help on how Zenodo gets author information from GitHub.

  1. Is it a. from the GitHub user names, or b. from a CONTRIBUTOR or other metadata file in the repo.

Also

  1. Do the release versions inherit the author names from the 'concept submission' or from the names in the GitHub repository at the time of release submission.

Many thanks

Simon

END QUOTE

Zenodo have DOI model of (with each DOI having its own editable metadata) - eek, problemo?

v1.0 (specific version): 10.5281/zenodo.60943 v1.1 (specific version): 10.5281/zenodo.800648 Concept (all versions): 10.5281/zenodo.705645

http://help.zenodo.org/

S

katrinleinweber commented 6 years ago

Is it from the GitHub user account, or is it from the CONTRIBUTOR file.

Definitely (also) from the Git history. I am "co-author" of several Zenodo records, to whose source repo on GitHub I contributed.

Funnily enough, the person with the fewest lines touched (as counted by Git) is in the last position. Some disciplines recognize this as senior author ;->

mrchristian commented 6 years ago

Hi,

Ah great thank you. Interesting how the attribution is getting assigned, defo appears that it needs some further systemization. One typo update and I'm senior author ;-).

katrinleinweber commented 6 years ago

Only to those who enjoy navel-gazing and tea-leaf-reading more than actual data & its processing ;-D Attribution is hard, and thus any effort is better invested in con-tribution.