<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi, Heather!<div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>Alice</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 13, 2017, at 1:06 PM, Heather Piwowar <<a href="mailto:heather@impactstory.org">heather@impactstory.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-ea884acf-510c-977c-506e-91f59c132bfa"><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hi all, </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are releasing a proof-of-concept webapp related to software citation, and wanted to hear any thoughts you may have!</span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="http://citeas.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CiteAs</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 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.</span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">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 </span><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">places CiteAs currently looks</span><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> include:</span></div><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CodeMeta files</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Repository author information</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">GitHub README files for Zenodo DOIs</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Structured citation metadata linked from project websites (BibTeX etc.)</span></div></li></ul><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://citeas.org/sources">More details here</a>. Eventually we will show how software has and is being mentioned in the literature.</span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyway, it is a prototype, but we'd love your thoughts! </span><a href="http://citeas.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://citeas.org/</span></a></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feedback via GitHub issues: </span><a href="https://github.com/Impactstory/citeas-api/issues" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://github.com/Impactstory/citeas-api/issues</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's open source, there is an open API, etc! </span><a href="http://citeas.org/about" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Links here</a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><br></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brand new twitter account: </span><a href="http://twitter.com/citeas_org" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://twitter.com/citeas_org</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More on the grant and related projects: </span><a href="http://blog.impactstory.org/collaborating-635k-grant-improve-credit-research-software/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://blog.impactstory.org/collaborating-635k-grant-improve-credit-research-software/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><br><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Best, </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heather, Jason, and James</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div></span><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>--</div>Heather Piwowar<div>cofounder of <a href="http://impactstory.org/" target="_blank">Impactstory</a>: share the full story of your research impact.</div><div> working from Vancouver, Canada</div><div><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/researchremix" target="_blank">@researchremix</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/ImpactStory" target="_blank">@Impactstory</a></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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