The software citation working group is a committee that will leverage the perspectives of a variety of existing initiatives working on software citation to produce a consolidated set of citation principles in order to encourage broad adoption of a consistent policy for software citation across disciplines and venues. The working group will review existing efforts and make a set of recommendations. These recommendations will be put up for endorsement by the organizations represented by this group and others that play an important role in the community.
The group will produce a set of principles, illustrated with working examples, and a plan for dissemination and distribution. This group will not be producing detailed specifications for implementation although it may review and discuss possible technical solutions.
See Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principle as a example of a similar deliverable.
The final output of the group was Smith AM, Katz DS, Niemeyer KE, FORCE11 Software Citation Working Group. (2016) Software citation principles. PeerJ Computer Science 2:e86 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.86.
Co-chairs: Arfon Smith & Daniel S. Katz & Kyle Niemeyer
##Timeline
Kick off meeting (telecon) with goals of:
- Establish interest/backgrounds of working group participants.
- Review mission statement, timeline and goals
- Seek out additional participants (if we're missing key individuals)
- Gather materials documenting existing practices in member disciplines
- Gather materials from workshops and other reports
- Review materials, identifying overlaps and differences
- Drafting of Software Citation Principles
(possibly in person at WSSSPE, Boulder, CO - 28/29 September) - Seek community feedback on draft
- Iterate
- Software Citation Principles proposed final draft complete.
- Seek out community endorsements for draft principles.
- Presentation of formal recommendations at FORCE2016
- Monthly telecons
- GitHub for documentation/iterating on content
- Google groups for general discussion
- FORCE11 email list for announcements
##Members
If you are interested in joining the group, please:
- Add yourself to the list below through a pull request
- To add yourself to the group mailing list and group folder on FORCE11:
- Sign into FORCE11: http://www.force11.org/user/register
- After Signing in, on the group page (http://www.force11.org/group/software-citation-working-group) subscribe to the group here using the "subscribe to group" link in right column above the group list
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Alberto Accomazzi (@aaccomazzi) | Harvard-Smithsonian CfA | Participant |
| Alice Allen (@owlice) | Astrophysics Source Code Library | Participant |
| Micah Altman (@maltman) | Program on Information Science, MIT | Participant |
| Jay Jay Billings (@jayjaybillings) | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Participant |
| Carl Boettiger (@cboettig) | UC Berkeley | Participant |
| Jed Brown (@jedbrown) | CU Boulder | Participant |
| Sou-Cheng Choi (@sctchoi) | NORC at the University of Chicago and Illinois Institute of Technology | Participant |
| Neil Chue Hong (@npch) | Software Sustainability Institute | Participant |
| Tom Crick (@tomcrick) | Cardiff Metropolitan University | Participant |
| Mercè Crosas (@mcrosas) | IQSS, Harvard University | Participant |
| Scott Edmunds (@ScottBGI) | GigaScience, BGI Hong Kong | Participant |
| Christopher Erdmann (@libcce) | Harvard-Smithsonian CfA | Participant |
| Martin Fenner (@mfenner) | DataCite | Participant |
| Darel Finkbeiner (@darelf) | OSTI | Participant |
| Ian Gent (@turingfan) | University of St Andrews, recomputation.org | Participant |
| Carole Goble (@carolegoble) | The University of Manchester, Software Sustainability Institute | Participant |
| Paul Groth (@pgroth) | Elsevier Labs | Participant |
| Melissa Haendel (@mellybelly) | OHSU | Participant |
| Stephanie Hagstrom (@sthagstrom) | FORCE11 | Participant |
| Robert Hanisch (@rjhanisch) | NIST/ODI | Participant |
| Edwin Henneken (@ehenneken) | Harvard-Smithsonian CfA | Participant |
| Ivan Herman (@iherman) | W3C | Participant |
| Konrad Hinsen (@khinsen) | CNRS | Participant |
| James Howison (@jameshowison) | UTexas | Participant |
| Michael Hucka (@mhucka) | Caltech | Participant |
| Lorraine Hwang (@ljhwang) | UC Davis | Participant |
| Thomas Ingraham (@tingraham) | F1000Research | Participant |
| Matthew B. Jones (@mbjones) | NCEAS, UC Santa Barbara | Participant |
| Catherine Jones ([@cm-j0nes] (https://github.com/cm-j0nes)) | Science and Technology Facilities Council | Participant |
| Daniel S. Katz (@danielskatz) | University of Illinois | Co-chair |
| Alexander Konovalov (@alex-konovalov) | University of St Andrews | Participant |
| John Kratz (@JEK-III) | California Digital Library | Participant |
| Jennifer Lin (@jenniferlin15) | Public Library of Science | Participant |
| Frank Löffler (@knarrff) | Louisiana State University | Participant |
| Brian Matthews (@brianmatthews42) | Science and Technology Facilites Council | Participant |
| Abigail Cabunoc Mayes (@acabunoc) | Mozilla Science Lab | Participant |
| Daniel Mietchen (@Daniel-Mietchen) | NIH | Participant |
| Bill Mills (@BillMills) | Mozilla Science Lab | Participant |
| Evan Misshula (@EMisshula) | CUNY Graduate Center | Participant |
| August Muench (@augustfly) | American Astronomical Society | Participant |
| Fiona Murphy (@DrFionalm) | Independent Researcher | Participant |
| Lars Holm Nielsen (@lnielsen) | CERN | Participant |
| Kyle Niemeyer (@kyleniemeyer) | Oregon State University | Co-chair |
| Robert Peters (@rcpeters) | ORCID.org | Participant |
| Tom Pollard (@tompollard) | MIT | Participant |
| Karthik Ram (@_inundata) | University of California, Berkeley | Participant |
| Fernando Rios (@zoidy) | Johns Hopkins University | Participant |
| Ashley Sands (@ashleysa) | UCLA Information Studies | Participant |
| Soren Scott (@roomthily) | Independent Researcher | Participant |
| Frank J. Seinstra (@fjseins) | Netherlands eScience Center | Participant |
| Arfon Smith (@arfon) | GitHub | Co-chair |
| Kaitlin Thaney (@kaythaney) | Mozilla Science Lab | Participant |
| Ilian Todorov (@iliant) | STFC | Participant |
| Matt Turk (@MatthewTurk) | University of Illinois | Participant |
| Miguel de Val-Borro (@migueldvb) | Princeton University | Participant |
| Daan Van Hauwermeiren (@DaanVanHauwermeiren) | Ghent University | Participant |
| Stijn Van Hoey (@StijnVanHoey) | Ghent University | Participant |
| Belinda Weaver (@weaverbel) | The University of Queensland | Participant |
| Nic Weber (@nniiicc) | University of Washington iSchool | Participant |
| Marijane White (@marijane) | OHSU | Participant |
| Qian Zhang (@paopao74cn) | University of Illinois | Participant |
(this list is in alphabetic order by surname; please keep it that way when making additions)