Software Sustainability Institute Tracking Software Contributions doi: /m9.figshare Joint ORCID – DRYAD Symposium on Research Attribution 23 May 2013, Oxford Neil Chue Hong Software Sustainability Institute ORCID: | Unless otherwise indicated slides licensed under
Software Sustainability Institute Authorship Lifecycle Identif y Cite Reuse Research Index Papers, data, software all research outputs of a continuous cycle. With software, technology makes it easier to track, but not reward. We cannot separate papers, data and software when we release research.
Software Sustainability Institute Versioning Personal v1 Personal v1 Personal v2 Personal v2 Personal v3 Personal v3 Personal v2a Personal v2a Public v1 Public v1 Personal v3a Personal v3a Personal v2a Personal v2a Public v2 Public v2 Public v3 Public v3 Why do we version? - To indicate a change - To allow sharing - To confer special status Version control systems make this easy and concept of a person and an output are there but not unique
Software Sustainability Institute Algorithm Function Program Library / Suite / Package … Granularity What do we define? - Useful units of reuse
Software Sustainability Institute What do we choose to identify: - Workflow? - Software that runs workflow? - Software referenced by workflow? - Software dependencies? What’s the minimum citable part? Boundary
Software Sustainability Institute Authorship Authorship Which authors have had what impact on each version of the software? Which authors have had what impact on each version of the software? Who had the largest contribution to the scientific results in a paper? Who had the largest contribution to the scientific results in a paper? Can micro-attribution work? Can track author, but not contribution? Can micro-attribution work? Can track author, but not contribution? OGSA-DAI projects statistics from Ohloh Why do we identify? - To measure - To restrict - To communicate - To include
Software Sustainability Institute 5 Stars of Research Software Community There is a community infrastructure Open Software has permissive license Defined Accurate metadata for the software Extensible Usable, modifiable for my purpose Runnable I can access and run software C O DE R c.f. 5 Stars of Linked Data (Berners-Lee) 5 Stars of Online Journals (Shotton) “Golden Star” Originally by Ssolbergj CC-BY
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