Make use of citation.cff

[olebole]

There is an attempt to formalize software citation requests, CITATION.cff, whose approach is orthogonal to your. It may be useful to use this in two ways:

• you could harvest information from repositories using this format,
• you could create CITATION.cff files from your metadata for repositories where it still does not exist and open a pull request there to improve their own metadata.

I'd also like to mention ASCL, which (among others) provides some rudimentary CITATION.cff. In principle, you could also (instead of maintaining your own web page) contribute to them, which would reduce the bus factor of your effort.

[TomWagg]

Hi @olebole - thanks for the suggestions. We're definitely excited to eventually provide support for CITATION.cff files and integrate with something like ADS or ASCL in the future. This will definitely be something we work towards after the initial release.

[FloorBroekgaarden]

Agreed with what Tom says, and thanks for the suggestion @olebole . We are aware of ASCL, and have added it to the note describing our tool and other resources (that will soon be released). I have added this as "future to do" in the research note and I will close this issue for now, but happy to discuss this in the future.