github/open-source-survey

BibTex entry for easier citation

chrisma opened this issue · 4 comments

chrisma commented

The README.md in the "License" section states

If you use this dataset in a publication, a link to or citation of this repository would be appreciated.

Who should be attributed as the author(s), GitHub, Inc.?
Would it be possible to provide a BibTex entry or even a DOI number for the repository to allow easier citations?

E.g.

@misc{OpenSourceSurvey17,
  author = {GitHub, Inc.},
  title = {Open Source Survey},
  year = {2017},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/github/open-source-survey}}
}
arfon commented

I would recommend publishing the data with Zenodo.org (https://zenodo.org) which will give you both a DataCite DOI but also an easy way for folks to generate BibTex entries as there's a link at the bottom-right of every Zenodo archive page e.g. https://zenodo.org/record/801828#.WTGQS8aZM3E

chrisma commented

Yup, Zenodo is also the service that GitHub itself recommends for assigning DOIs to repositories in their guide (https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/).

The service also offers a "badge", that can be included in the README.md

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arfon commented

I would recommend publishing the data with Zenodo.org (https://zenodo.org) which will give you both a DataCite DOI but also an easy way for folks to generate BibTex entries as there's a link at the bottom-right of every Zenodo archive page e.g. https://zenodo.org/record/801828#.WTGQS8aZM3E

👋 @franniez - would it be helpful for me to do this? If so, who should I list as authors?

franniez commented

Apologies for the delay and thanks for the reminder ping, @arfon! Added some citation info, including a DOI, in #90.

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