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weaverba137 / pydl

Library of IDL astronomy routines converted to Python.
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Citable record? #36

Closed adrn closed 6 years ago

adrn commented 6 years ago

We're planning to reference and cite all Astropy affiliated packages in the upcoming Astropy v2.0 paper. I couldn't find a citable record for this package - are you interested in creating one so that we can cite it? For example, you can create a zenodo record and just comment back here to let me know that it's done. Please also let me know if you'd like to opt out of a citation and we'll just link to the package. Thanks!

weaverba137 commented 6 years ago

Is there some reason not to use ASCL?

adrn commented 6 years ago

My understanding is that ASCL is a registry of software, but does not produce true DOI's -- I think it's more of a database of software. But I could be wrong about that.

weaverba137 commented 6 years ago

Ah, OK. I took a quick glance, & it was not obvious that ASCL provides a DOI. I'll look into zenodo. My concern though is that ASCL has been around for years, but I've never heard of zenodo. Is that really the choice for long-term curation of citations?

weaverba137 commented 6 years ago

@adrn, I now have a zenodo account, but I have no idea whatsoever what to do now. Please provide instructions on how to proceed.

weaverba137 commented 6 years ago

Alternatively, does the term "citeable record" imply a DOI by definition, or is it possible to have a "citeable record" that does not have a DOI?

weaverba137 commented 6 years ago

I've bit the bullet & am prepared to create a Zenodo record for this, but it appears that publication only happens on a new release. I need to publish an existing release. Please help!

adrn commented 6 years ago

I think you can download a zip of the last release of Pydl (from GitHub, e.g. https://github.com/weaverba137/pydl/archive/0.6.0.zip) and upload this to Zenodo manually. You have to enter some info manually but it should be possible to create an entry from an existing release. Let me know if you get stuck - I've done this a few times.

weaverba137 commented 6 years ago

OK, that worked: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1095150. I'll submit a PR on the Astropy 2 paper to add the citation.

PS, for the record, this guide was helpful: https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/

I'd still like to discuss whether the definition of "citation" requires a DOI by necessity, but that's separate from this issue.