[WSSSPE] Early look at CiteAs

[Alice Allen]

Hi, Heather!

The ASCL includes a “Preferred citation” field, with the information in it coming from authors themselves via their repos, articles, correspondence, etc. IOW, what is listed in that field is an explicit declaration of the author’s preference for citation. I’m happy to share that data with you to incorporate into CiteAs if you’d like, but the real reason I write is that we have found that there is a wide variety of ways authors want their software cited, and looking at these different explicit citation methods might help your development efforts. 

I beg people regularly to state how they want their software cited and to make that info easy to find. Someday, I hope they will do so! :-D CiteAs may help them along. If you want the data, please let me know; thanks!

Alice



On Dec 13, 2017, at 1:06 PM, Heather Piwowar <heather at impactstory.org> wrote:

> Hi all, 
> We are releasing a proof-of-concept webapp related to software citation, and wanted to hear any thoughts you may have!
> 
> CiteAs is a way to discover the correct citation for diverse research products including software, datasets, preprints, and traditional articles.  It's a small part of a collaborative grant between Impactstory and James Howison at the University of Texas-Austin, funded by the Sloan foundation.
> 
> The focus of this grant is to create a big database of research software, automatically extracted from millions of open-access scholarly articles using machine-learning techniques. Along with the database, we'll also make three small prototype applications to show off how the data can be used in cool ways. CiteAs is one of these applications.  We're still working on creating the database. But while that's in progress, we thought it'd be cool to release CiteAs, even though it still is missing the majority of data it will ultimately use.
> 
> CiteAs maps from software to requested citations. CiteAs takes just about any identifier (package name, website URL, DOI) about software and seeks out the best citation.  The places CiteAs currently looks include:
> CodeMeta files
> Repository author information
> GitHub README files for Zenodo DOIs
> Structured citation metadata linked from project websites (BibTeX etc.)
> More details here.  Eventually we will show how software has and is being mentioned in the literature.
> 
> Anyway, it is a prototype, but we'd love your thoughts!  http://citeas.org/
> 
> Feedback via GitHub issues:  https://github.com/Impactstory/citeas-api/issues
> It's open source, there is an open API, etc!  Links here.
> Brand new twitter account:  http://twitter.com/citeas_org 
> More on the grant and related projects: http://blog.impactstory.org/collaborating-635k-grant-improve-credit-research-software/ 
> 
> Best, 
> Heather, Jason, and James
> 
> --
> Heather Piwowar
> cofounder of Impactstory: share the full story of your research impact.
>   working from Vancouver, Canada
> @researchremix and @Impactstory
> 
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