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Tracking Software Contributions and Research Attribution
1. Software Sustainability Institute
www.software.ac.uk
Tracking Software
Contributions
doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.705892
Joint ORCID – DRYAD Symposium on Research Attribution
23 May 2013, Oxford
Neil Chue Hong (@npch), Software Sustainability Institute
ORCID: 0000-0002-8876-7606 | N.ChueHong@software.ac.uk
Unless otherwise indicated
slides licensed under
2. Software Sustainability Institute
www.software.ac.uk
Authorship Lifecycle
Identif
yCite
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.
http://openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com
6. Software Sustainability Institute
www.software.ac.uk
AuthorshipAuthorship• Which authors have had what impact on each version of the software?
• Who had the largest contribution to the scientific results in a paper?
• Can micro-attribution work? Can track author, but not contribution?
http://beyond-impact.org/?p=175
OGSA-DAI projects statistics
from Ohloh
Why do weidentify?
- To measure
-Torestrict
- To communicate
- To include
7. Software Sustainability Institute
www.software.ac.uk
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
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c.f.
5 Stars of Linked Data
(Berners-Lee)
5 Stars of Online Journals
(Shotton)
“Golden Star”
Originally by Ssolbergj
CC-BY
Made more difficult than data because of the fluidly changing collaborative nature of software development – not just adding to the contributor pool
At what level do you reference, at what level do you deposit?
Is it more important to sustain the software that this workflow references, or the workflow itself?
Made more difficult than data because of the fluidly changing collaborative nature of software development – not just adding to the contributor pool
Star graphic modified under CC-BY fromSsolbergjC.f.5 Stars of Linked Data (Berners-Lee):Available w/ open license, machine-readable, non-proprietary format, open standards, linked to provide context 5 Stars of Online Journals (Shotton):Peer Review, Open Access, Enriched Content, Available Datasets, Machine-readable metadataWhat about community?
A metajournal which encourages the publication of information that encourages the reuse of software.A way of using the current tools and practices to make software betterrecognised.